Meaning: they encompass · Also translated as: and surrounded him, are surrounded, they could encompass, you are surrounded
Forms in the Quran
أَحَاطَ×4
يُحِيطُونَ×2
تُحِطْ×2
وَأَحَٰطَتْ×1
أُحِيطَ×1
يُحِيطُوا۟×1
يُحَاطَ×1
وَأُحِيطَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الحائط: الجدار الذي يحوط بالمكان، والإحاطة تقال على وجهين:
الحاء والواو والطاء كلمة واحدة، وهو الشيء يطيف بالشيء. فالحوط من حاطه حوطا. والحمار يحوط عانته: يجمعها. وحوطت حائطا. ويقال إن الحواطة حظيرة تتخذ للطعام. والحوط: شيء مستدير تعلقه المرأة على جبينها، من فضة.
God! There is no god
But He,—the Living,
The Self-subsisting, Eternal.
No slumber can seize Him
Nor sleep. His are all things
In the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede
In His presence except
As He permitteth? He knoweth
What (appeareth to His creatures
As) Before or After
Or Behind them.
Nor shall they compass
Aught of His knowledge
Except as He willeth.
His Throne doth extend
Over the heavens
And the earth, and He feeleth
No fatigue in guarding,
And preserving them
For He is the Most High,
The Supreme (in glory).
He it is who enableth you
To traverse through land
And sea; so that ye even board
Ships;—they sail with them
With a favourable wind,
And they rejoice thereat;
Then comes a stormy wind
And the waves come to them
From all sides, and they think
They are being overwhelmed:
They cry unto God, sincerely
Offering (their) duty unto Him,
Saying, "If Thou dost deliver us
From this, we shall truly
Show our gratitude!"
Nay, they charge with falsehood
That whose knowledge they
Cannot compass, even before
The elucidation thereof"
Hath reached them: thus
Did those before them
Make charges of falsehood:
But see what was the end
Of those who did wrong!
(Jacob) said: "Never will I
Send him with you until
Ye swear a solemn oath to me,
In God's name, that ye
Will be sure to bring him back
To me unless ye are yourselves
Hemmed in (and made powerless)."
And when they had sworn
Their solemn oath,
He said: "Over all
That we say, be God
The Witness and Guardian!"
Behold! We told thee
That thy Lord doth encompass
Mankind round about:
We granted the Vision
Which We showed thee,
But as a trial for men,—
As also the Cursed Tree
(Mentioned) in the Qur-ān:
We put terror (and warning)
Into them, but it only
Increases their inordinate
transgression!
Say, "The Truth is
From your Lord":
Let him who will,
Believe, and let him
Who will, reject (it):
For the wrong-doers We
Have prepared a Fire
Whose (smoke and flames),
Like the walls and roof
Of a tent, will hem
Them in: if they implore
Relief they will be granted
Water like melted brass,
That will scald their faces.
How dreadful the drink!
How uncomfortable a couch
To recline on!
So his fruits (and enjoyment)
Were encompassed (with ruin),
And he remained twisting
And turning his hands
Over what he had spent
On his property, which had
(Now) tumbled to pieces
To its very foundations,
And he could only say,
"Woe is me! Would I had
Never ascribed partners
To my Lord and Cherisher!"
But the Hoopoe tarried not
Far: he (came up and) said:
"I have compassed (territory)
Which thou hast not compassed,
And I have come to thee
From Saba with tidings true.
Until, when they come
(Before the Judgment-seat),
(God) will say: "Did ye
Reject My Signs, though ye
Comprehended them not
In knowledge, or what
Was it ye did?"
God is He Who
Created seven Firmaments
And of the earth
A similar number.
Through the midst
Of them (all) descends
His Command: that ye may
Know that God has power
Over all things, and that
God comprehends all things
In (His) Knowledge.
"That he may know
That they have (truly)
Brought and delivered
The Messages of their Lord:
And He surrounds
(All the mysteries) that are
With them, and takes account
Of every single thing."