معاذ الله
See also: معاذالله
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editمَعَاذَ ٱللّٰهِ • (maʕāḏa llāhi)
- God forbid
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:79:
- قَالَ مَعَاذَ اللّٰهِ أَن نَأْخُذَ إِلَّا مَنْ وَجَدْنَا مَتَاعَنَا عِنْدَهُ إِنَّا إِذًا لَظَالِمُونَ
- qāla maʕāḏa llāhi ʔan naʔḵuḏa ʔillā man wajadnā matāʕanā ʕindahu ʔinnā ʔiḏan laẓālimūna
- [Joseph] responded, “God forbid that we should take other than the one with whom we found our property. Otherwise, we would surely be unjust.”
Descendants
edit- → Persian: معاذالله (ma'azallâh)