إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help.
ExpressionFormFunction
Iyyāka naʿbuduFronted objectRestricted worship
Iyyāka nastaʿīnuFronted objectRestricted reliance
IhdināImperative verbSupplication
One setting may contain several figures and functions. Each label must still rest on its proper grammatical evidence. It is unsound to treat all three clauses as instances of the very same device.
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Practice 7: Ellipsis, Preposing and Contextual Meaning in Qur’anic Expression
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help.
ExpressionFormFunction
Iyyāka naʿbuduFronted objectRestricted worship
Iyyāka nastaʿīnuFronted objectRestricted reliance
IhdināImperative verbSupplication
One setting may contain several figures and functions. Each label must still rest on its proper grammatical evidence. It is unsound to treat all three clauses as instances of the very same device.