يَصُدُّto turn away / to prevent

Example sentences

• يَصُدُّ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغِيهَا جُهْدُهُ عَوْجًا وَتَحْرِيفًا

  He turns people away from the way of God and, by his effort, seeks to bend and distort it.

  يَصُدُّ — he turns away. A present-tense verb with a third-person singular doer in its prefix, describing a general, habitual action. It opens the clause and pairs with the preposition after it to mean 'turns away from', the doer built into the verb.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• لِيَصُدَّ النَّاسَ عَنْهَا

  to turn people away from it

  لِيَصُدَّ — to turn away. The li- prefix here is the 'in order to' of purpose, and it bends the following verb into its subjunctive shape. So beyond a stray 'to', its grammatical job is to mark the aim of the action and to govern the verb's changed ending.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• فَإِبْلِيسُ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ قَاطِعُ طَرِيقِ الْعُقْبَى لِيَصُدَّكُمْ عَنِ الْحَقِّ وَالْهُدَى

  So Iblis, may God curse him, is a blocker of the path to the ultimate goal, seeking to turn you away from the truth and guidance.

  لِيَصُدَّكُمْ — in order to turn you away. The front 'li-' here is a purpose marker ('in order to'), and after it the verb shifts into its subjunctive shape to show aim rather than fact. The '-kum' ('you', plural) fused on the end is the object turned away, so the word states the goal: to bar you all.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →