Arabic root

ف-ق-ه

Fa-Qaf-Heh

1 word from this root family

About this root

Fa-Qaf-Heh (ف-ق-ه) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: fiqh (understanding / jurisprudence / deep comprehension).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 20 times in 20 verses, across 12 of the 114 suras. The first is in 4:78.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
فِقْهٌ fiqh	understanding / jurisprudence / deep comprehension	noun, B2	Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology

In the Quran

قُلْ هُوَ ٱلْقَادِرُ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَبْعَثَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابًا مِّن فَوْقِكُمْ أَوْ مِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِكُمْ أَوْ يَلْبِسَكُمْ شِيَعًا وَيُذِيقَ بَعْضَكُم بَأْسَ بَعْضٍ ۗ ٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ نُصَرِّفُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَفْقَهُونَ

Say: He is able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to bewilder you with dissension and make you taste the tyranny one of another. See how We display the revelations so that they may understand.

Quran 6:65

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنشَأَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ فَمُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌ ۗ قَدْ فَصَّلْنَا ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَفْقَهُونَ

And He it is Who hath produced you from a single being, and (hath given you) a habitation and a repository. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who have understanding.

Quran 6:98

۞ وَمَا كَانَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا۟ كَآفَّةً ۚ فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَآئِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا۟ فِى ٱلدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا۟ قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ

And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may gain sound knowledge in religion, and that they may warn their folk when they return to them, so that they may beware.

Quran 9:122

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

فِقْهٌ

fiqh

understanding / jurisprudence / deep comprehension

Example

لِيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنْذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ

liyatafaqqahū fī ad-dīni wa-liyundhirū qawmahum idhā rajaʿū ilayhim

To obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them (9:122)

Root: ف-ق-ه Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun (maṣdar). Verb: فَقِهَ (to understand deeply). Form V: تَفَقَّهَ (to study/seek deep understanding). فَقِيهٌ (jurist/scholar of fiqh).

Culture

Fiqh originally meant deep understanding of religion. It later became the technical term for Islamic jurisprudence - the science of deriving practical rulings from the Quran and Sunnah.