Ba-Ra-Ra
1 word from this root family
Ba-Ra-Ra (ب-ر-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: birr (righteousness / piety / goodness).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 32 times in 30 verses, across 18 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:44. The form بِرٌّ (righteousness / piety / goodness) accounts for 8 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
بِرٌّ birr | righteousness / piety / goodness | noun, A2 | 8× | Lawful, Forbidden, and Duty |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
۞ أَتَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَEnjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?
وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عُرْضَةً لِّأَيْمَـٰنِكُمْ أَن تَبَرُّوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ وَتُصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌAnd make not Allah, by your oaths, a hindrance to your being righteous and observing your duty unto Him and making peace among mankind. Allah is Hearer, Knower.
رَّبَّنَآ إِنَّنَا سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِيًا يُنَادِى لِلْإِيمَـٰنِ أَنْ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَـَٔامَنَّا ۚ رَبَّنَا فَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَكَفِّرْ عَنَّا سَيِّـَٔاتِنَا وَتَوَفَّنَا مَعَ ٱلْأَبْرَارِOur Lord! Lo! we have heard a crier calling unto Faith: "Believe ye in your Lord!" So we believed. Our Lord! Therefor forgive us our sins, and remit from us our evil deeds, and make us die the death of the righteous.
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).
Masculine noun. Also means 'dutiful conduct toward parents' (بِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ). Adjective: بَارٌّ (righteous, dutiful).
Al-Birr encompasses all forms of goodness in Islam - worship, charity, kindness, and moral excellence.