Arabic root

ي-ق-ن

Ya-Qaf-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ya-Qaf-Nun (ي-ق-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: yaqīn (certainty / absolute conviction).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 28 times in 28 verses, across 19 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:4. The form يَقِينٌ (certainty / absolute conviction) accounts for 8 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
يَقِينٌ yaqīn	certainty / absolute conviction	noun, B1	8×	Advanced Quranic Vocabulary

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

In the Quran

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَآ أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ وَبِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ

And who believe in that which is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) and that which was revealed before thee, and are certain of the Hereafter.

Quran 2:4

وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُرِىٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ مَلَكُوتَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلِيَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُوقِنِينَ

Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty:

Quran 6:75

وَٱعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ ٱلْيَقِينُ

And serve thy Lord till the Inevitable cometh unto thee.

Quran 15:99

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

يَقِينٌ

yaqīn

certainty / absolute conviction

Example

وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ

waʿbud rabbaka ḥattā yaʾtiyaka al-yaqīn

And worship your Lord until the certainty comes to you (15:99)

Root: ي-ق-ن Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun. Related: مُوقِنٌ (one who has certainty), أَيْقَنَ (to be certain). Three levels in the Quran: عِلْمُ الْيَقِينِ (knowledge of certainty), عَيْنُ الْيَقِينِ (eye of certainty), حَقُّ الْيَقِينِ (truth of certainty).

Culture

Al-yaqīn here is interpreted by most scholars as death - meaning one should worship God throughout life until death. The three levels of yaqīn represent ascending stages of spiritual realization.