أَلَّا that not in Arabic
أَلَّا is how you say “that not” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قَالَتْ تَسْتَأْهِلُ أَلَّا أَرْحَمَكَ
She said, "You deserve that I withhold my mercy from you."
أَلَّا that not
This is a contraction of the particle that introduces a 'that...' clause with a negative, fusing 'that' and 'not' into one word. It does double duty: it opens the clause naming what he deserves and negates the verb inside it, while also throwing that verb into its subjunctive shape. So it both subordinates and negates at once.
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More example sentences
يَنْبَغِيَ أَلَّا يَقْصُرَ الإِنسَانُ فِي رِعَايَةِ حَقِّهِ
One should not be negligent in safeguarding his right.
أَلَّا not to
A fusion of the particle 'that' with the negator 'not', meaning 'that ... not'. Its grammatical job is to introduce the obligation's content as a negative aim and to switch the verb after it into its subjunctive, goal-oriented shape. So it both negates and changes the following verb's ending.