أَزْوَاجُكُمْyour wives

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

  وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ — and your wives. The wa- joins another item and the -kum tail again supplies 'your' as possessor of this plural noun. It continues the parallel list, each noun framed as belonging to the audience, accumulating the things that might rival devotion to God.

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