صَرْفُturning away

Example sentences

• وَصَرْفُهَا بِزِمَامِهَا عَنْ مَعَاصِيِ اللَّهِ

  And he turned it away with its rein from disobediences of God.

  وَصَرْفُهَا — and he turned it away. wa- opens this clause, and the rest is an action-noun ('turning-away') with a feminine 'it' attached as its object, read here as a verb-like act. The conjunction ties it onto the prior leading, parallel to it.

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