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Arabic root

ف-ض-ل

Fa-Dad-Lam

3 words from this root family

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Fa-Dad-Lam (ف-ض-ل) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: min faḍlika (please (to a male)), faḍl (bounty / virtue / grace), faḍlan ʿan (moreover / furthermore / let alone).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 104 times in 92 verses, across 32 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:47. The form فَضْلٌ (bounty / virtue / grace) accounts for 84 of them.

Themes: Greetings, Basics, Quranic, Advanced Expressions

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
مِنْ فَضْلِكَ
min faḍlika
please (to a male)phrase, A1First Words - Essential Greetings
فَضْلٌ
faḍl
bounty / virtue / gracenoun, B184×Worship and Prayer
فَضْلًا عَنْ
faḍlan ʿan
moreover / furthermore / let alonephrase, B2Literary Expressions

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

In the Quran

يَـٰبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَتِىَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّى فَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَى ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ

O Children of Israel! Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you and how I preferred you to (all) creatures.

Quran 2:47
ثُمَّ تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ لَكُنتُم مِّنَ ٱلْخَـٰسِرِينَ

Then, even after that, ye turned away, and if it had not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy ye had been among the losers.

Quran 2:64
فَقَالَ ٱلْمَلَؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن قَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَـٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتَفَضَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَنزَلَ مَلَـٰٓئِكَةً مَّا سَمِعْنَا بِهَـٰذَا فِىٓ ءَابَآئِنَا ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

But the chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: This is only a mortal like you who would make himself superior to you. Had Allah willed, He surely could have sent down angels. We heard not of this in the case of our fathers of old.

Quran 23:24

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

A1phrase
مِنْ فَضْلِكَ
min faḍlika

please (to a male)

Example
كُوبُ مَاءٍ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ.
kūbu māʾin min faḍlika.
A glass of water, please.
Grammar

To a female: 'min faḍliki' (مِنْ فَضْلِكِ). Literally 'from your grace/favor'.

B1noun
فَضْلٌ
faḍl

bounty / virtue / grace

Example
وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ
wallāhu dhū al-faḍli al-ʿaẓīm
And Allah is the possessor of great bounty (2:105)
Grammar

Masculine noun. Related: فَضِيلَةٌ (virtue), أَفْضَلُ (better/best), تَفْضِيلٌ (preference), فَاضِلٌ (virtuous). Often used with عَظِيم (great) or كَبِير (big).

Culture

God's faḍl (bounty) goes beyond what is deserved - it is His grace and generosity. Believers are encouraged to seek God's faḍl (bounty) in this life and the next.

B2phrase
فَضْلًا عَنْ
faḍlan ʿan

moreover / furthermore / let alone

Example
فَضلًا عَن ذلِكَ، هُناكَ فَوائِدُ اقتِصادِيَّة.
faḍlan ʿan dhālika, hunāka fawāʾidu iqtiṣādiyya.
Furthermore, there are economic benefits.

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