please (to a male)
To a female: 'min faḍliki' (مِنْ فَضْلِكِ). Literally 'from your grace/favor'.
Fa-Dad-Lam
3 words from this root family
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
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
مِنْ فَضْلِكَ min faḍlika | please (to a male) | phrase, A1 | First Words - Essential Greetings | |
فَضْلٌ faḍl | bounty / virtue / grace | noun, B1 | 84× | Worship and Prayer |
فَضْلًا عَنْ faḍlan ʿan | moreover / furthermore / let alone | phrase, B2 | Literary Expressions |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
يَـٰبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَتِىَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّى فَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَى ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَO Children of Israel! Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you and how I preferred you to (all) creatures.
ثُمَّ تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ لَكُنتُم مِّنَ ٱلْخَـٰسِرِينَThen, 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.
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 ٱلْأَوَّلِينَBut 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.
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).
To a female: 'min faḍliki' (مِنْ فَضْلِكِ). Literally 'from your grace/favor'.
Masculine noun. Related: فَضِيلَةٌ (virtue), أَفْضَلُ (better/best), تَفْضِيلٌ (preference), فَاضِلٌ (virtuous). Often used with عَظِيم (great) or كَبِير (big).
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.