نَعْبُدُكَ
We worship You.
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ
You alone we worship.
Both connect worship to the addressee, but the second uses object fronting to foreground restriction and exclusivity. Context can sometimes supply a restrictive meaning even without fronting, whereas this arrangement makes it especially apparent.
The rhetorical purpose is not to reshuffle words for decoration but to convey that the relevant act is directed only toward the specified object, excluding alternatives.
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Al-Taqdim wa al-Ta’khir: Word Order and Rhetorical Purposes
نَعْبُدُكَ
We worship You.
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ
You alone we worship.
Both connect worship to the addressee, but the second uses object fronting to foreground restriction and exclusivity. Context can sometimes supply a restrictive meaning even without fronting, whereas this arrangement makes it especially apparent.
The rhetorical purpose is not to reshuffle words for decoration but to convey that the relevant act is directed only toward the specified object, excluding alternatives.