Parsing the statement of Allah the Exalted: “And Allah is sufficient as a Reckoner”
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And Allah is sufficient as a Reckoner
وكفي بالله حسيباًParsing “Suffice with Allah”
إعراب كفى باللهThe student: ... a prepositional phrase and its object
The Shaykh : Isa, no, Khalid.
The student: ....
The Shaykh : As he said, good, and success is from Allah.
The student: An extra letter.
The Shaykh : An extra preposition, complete it?
The student: Allah is the subject and
The Shaykh : Be patient, is the subject in the accusative case or the genitive case?
The student: The subject is in the genitive case with a kasrah instead of the nominative
The Shaykh : The subject, so it is not the subject
The student: ... implied
The Shaykh : No, who knows? We have gone over this parsing many times.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : How?
The student: The subject is in the nominative case with an implied dammah on its end
The Shaykh : The Name of Allah is a noun in the genitive case with the preposition ba
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: Hasiba is a specification.
The Shaykh : Yes, for specification, like that, good.
So
Suffice
كفىSo he did not use the preposition ba, but the more common usage is to use it. He said, Blessed and Exalted is He, at the end of what we wrote from the benefits
