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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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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 حسيباً
Preserving the deeds of His creation and reckoning with them,
Parsing “Suffice with Allah” إعراب كفى بالله
Sami
The 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 كفى
it takes the preposition ba as an extra preposition, which is common, and it may take itself to the subject, as the poet said: “Suffice the gray hair and Islam for a man as a stop”
So 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
Source alathar.net

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