O you who have believed, letnot a people ridicule people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule women; perhaps they may be better than them. Anddo not insult one another anddo not call each other by names.
As shown in the example, sense 4 generally governs a noun in thedeterminate state (but without the definite article) and the accusative case — that is, a noun withoutnunation. However, subsequent adjectives are in theindeterminate state, meaning they are nunated:
لَا طَالِبَ مُجْتَهِدًا حَاضِرٌ
lā ṭāliba mujtahidan ḥāḍirun
No hard-working student is present.
If, instead of an adjective, there is an attributive prepositional phrase, the initial noun can be in either state:
لَا طَالِبَ لَدَيْنَا مُجْتَهِدًا حَاضِرٌ
lā ṭāliba ladaynā mujtahidan ḥāḍirun
No hard-working student of ours is present.
لَا طَالِبًا لِلْعِلْمِ مُقَصِّرٌ
lā ṭāliban lilʕilmi muqaṣṣirun
No seeker of knowledge is delinquent.
Additionally, sense 4 can govern a preposition alone, with an implicit third-person singular masculine subject and no visible case or state. This is the origin ofلَا عَلَيْكَ(lā ʕalayka,“no worries”, literally“there is not [anything] on you”) and similar collocations.
