Arabic root

ا-م-ل

Alif-Mim-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Alif-Mim-Lam (ا-م-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: amal (hope / aspiration / worldly expectation), amal (hope).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 15:3. The form أَمَلٌ (hope / aspiration / worldly expectation) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
أَمَلٌ amal	hope / aspiration / worldly expectation	noun, B2	2×	Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology
أَمَل amal	hope	noun, B1	2×	Emotions & Feelings

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا۟ وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ وَيُلْهِهِمُ ٱلْأَمَلُ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know!

Quran 15:3

ٱلْمَالُ وَٱلْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَٱلْبَـٰقِيَـٰتُ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًا

Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world. But the good deeds which endure are better in thy Lord's sight for reward, and better in respect of hope.

Quran 18:46

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B2noun

أَمَلٌ

amal

hope / aspiration / worldly expectation

Example

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْأَمَلُ

dharhum yaʾkulū wa-yatamattaʿū wa-yulhihimu al-amal

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by false hope (15:3)

Root: أ-م-ل Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun. Plural: آمَالٌ (āmāl). Distinguished from رَجَاء (hope in God) - أَمَل often has a negative connotation of false worldly hopes that distract from the afterlife.

Culture

The Quran warns against being deceived by long-term worldly hopes (ṭūl al-amal) - they breed procrastination in spiritual matters.

B1noun

أَمَل

amal