أَغْوَيْتَنِيyou have led me astray

Example sentences

• و﴿قَالَ رَبَّ بِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأُزَيِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَأُغْوِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ﴾

  And he said, My Lord, because You have led me astray, I will surely make what is on the earth appear attractive to them, and I will lead them all astray.

  أَغْوَيْتَنِي — you have led me astray. A past-tense verb meaning 'You led astray', addressed to God, with 'me' attached as its object. The 'You' is built into the verb's ending, so the one word holds subject, action and object together.

  From: What Worship Really Means →