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سَيْف sword in Arabic

سَيْف is how you say “sword” in Arabic.

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فإن الأصولية بينهم السيف،

For indeed, theology is the sword between them.

السَّيْفُ the sword

This noun, the sword, is the predicate completing the emphatic sentence and so takes the nominative, made definite by 'al-'. It names what the discipline becomes among them, a metaphor stated as the sentence's predicate.

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