إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ
You alone we worship.
Placing «iyyāka» before the verb conveys restriction: worship is directed exclusively to Allah. The source compares this resulting meaning with the exclusiveness discussed in «Zayd huwa al-qāʾim».
The structures are different, however. The Qur’anic expression uses fronting of the object, whereas the nominal example uses a separating pronoun after the subject. Similar meanings do not make the two constructions grammatically identical.
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The Separating Pronoun (Ḍamīr al-Faṣl): Restriction, Emphasis and Predication
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ
You alone we worship.
Placing «iyyāka» before the verb conveys restriction: worship is directed exclusively to Allah. The source compares this resulting meaning with the exclusiveness discussed in «Zayd huwa al-qāʾim».
The structures are different, however. The Qur’anic expression uses fronting of the object, whereas the nominal example uses a separating pronoun after the subject. Similar meanings do not make the two constructions grammatically identical.