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Arabic root

ف-ك-ر

Fa-Kaf-Ra

2 words from this root family

About this root

Fa-Kaf-Ra (ف-ك-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: tafakkur (contemplation / deep thinking / reflection), fakkara (to think / to reflect).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 18 times in 18 verses, across 13 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:219. The form فَكَّرَ (to think / to reflect) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Verbs, Cognition

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
تَفَكُّرٌ
tafakkur
contemplation / deep thinking / reflectionnoun, B1Knowledge, Reflection, and Recitation
فَكَّرَ
fakkara
to think / to reflectverb, A11×Action Verbs - Work & Study

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

In the Quran

ٱلَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ ٱللَّهَ قِيَـٰمًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَىٰ جُنُوبِهِمْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِى خَلْقِ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَـٰذَا بَـٰطِلًا سُبْحَـٰنَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ

Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.

Quran 3:191
قُل لَّآ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ عِندِى خَزَآئِنُ ٱللَّهِ وَلَآ أَعْلَمُ ٱلْغَيْبَ وَلَآ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ إِنِّى مَلَكٌ ۖ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ ۚ قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِى ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ وَٱلْبَصِيرُ ۚ أَفَلَا تَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): I say not unto you (that) I possess the treasures of Allah, nor that I have knowledge of the Unseen; and I say not unto you: Lo! I am an angel. I follow only that which is inspired in me. Say: Are the blind man and the seer equal? Will ye not then take thought?

Quran 6:50
إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ

For lo! he did consider; then he planned -

Quran 74:18

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

B1noun
تَفَكُّرٌ
tafakkur

contemplation / deep thinking / reflection

Example
إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ
inna fī khalqi as-samāwāti wal-arḍi wakhitilāfi al-layli wan-nahāri laʾāyātin li-ulī al-albāb
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth and the alternation of night and day are signs for those of understanding (3:190)
Grammar

Form V maṣdar. Verb: تَفَكَّرَ (to think deeply/contemplate). The Quran repeatedly asks: أَفَلَا تَتَفَكَّرُونَ (will you not then reflect?).

Culture

Tafakkur is an act of worship in Islam. The Quran urges contemplation of nature, history, and one's own self as paths to knowing God.

A1verb
فَكَّرَ
fakkara

to think / to reflect

Example
فكّرتُ في المسألةِ طويلاً
fakkartu fī al-masʾalati ṭawīlan
I thought about the issue for a long time
Grammar

Form II verb (فَعَّلَ). Past: fakkara, Present: yufakkiru. Takes fī (في) for subject of thought.

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