إِخْوَانُكُمْyour brothers

Example sentences

• قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ﴿قُلْ إِنْ كَانَ آبَاؤُكُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ

  Allah the Exalted said: Say, if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, and your wives

  وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ — and your brothers. Again wa- adds a list item and -kum, 'your', attaches as the plural possessor to this plural noun. The pattern repeats deliberately, stacking kin upon kin, each owned by the addressed audience, to build the weight of worldly attachments.

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