Meaning: chooses · Also translated as: and We chose them, you devised it, will choose you, He chose him
Forms in the Quran
يَجْتَبِى×2
وَٱجْتَبَيْنَٰهُمْ×1
ٱجْتَبَيْتَهَا×1
يَجْتَبِيكَ×1
ٱجْتَبَىٰهُ×1
وَٱجْتَبَيْنَآ×1
ٱجْتَبَٰهُ×1
ٱجْتَبَىٰكُمْ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
يقال: جبيت الماء في الحوض: جمعته، والحوض الجامع له: جابية، وجمعها جواب.
الاجتباء: الاصطفاء، من جبيت الماء في الحوض إذا جمعته مختارا له، ومنه قوله تعالى: ﴿ثم اجتباه ربه﴾ [طه: 122]، فاجتباء الله عبده هو تخصيصه بفيض إلهي تتجمع له أنواع من النعم، وذلك لتخصيصه أنبياءه مرسليهم وغير مرسليهم وبعض أوليائه من الصديقين والشهداء. وفي معناه: ﴿إنا أخلصناهم بخالصة ذكرى الدار﴾ [ص: 46]، وقوله: ﴿لولا…
God will not leave
The Believers in the state
In which ye are now,
Until He separates
What is evil
From what is good.
Nor will He disclose
To you the secrets
Of the Unseen,
But He chooses
Of His Apostles
(For the purpose)
Whom He pleases.
So believe in God
And His Apostles:
And if ye believe
And do right,
Ye have a reward
Without measure.
If thou bring them not
A revelation, they say:
"Why hast thou not
Got it together?"
Say: "I but follow
What is revealed to me
From my Lord:
This is (nothing but)
Lights from your Lord,
And Guidance, and Mercy,
For any who have Faith."
"Thus will thy Lord
Choose thee and teach thee
The interpretation of stories (and events)
And perfect His favour
To thee and to the posterity
Of Jacob—even as He
Perfected it to thy fathers
Abraham and Isaac aforetime!
For God is full of knowledge
And wisdom."
Those were some
Of the prophets on whom
God did bestow His Grace,—
Of the posterity of Adam,
And of those whom We
Carried (in the Ark)
With Noah, and of
The posterity of Abraham
And Israel—of those
Whom We guided and chose.
Whenever the Signs
Of (God) Most Gracious
Were rehearsed to them,
They would fall down
In prostrate adoration
And in tears.
And strive in His cause
As ye ought to strive,
(With sincerity and under discipline).
He has chosen you, and has
Imposed no difficulties on you
In religion; it is the cult
Of your father Abraham.
It is He Who has named
You Muslims, both before
And in this (Revelation);
That the Apostle may be
A witness for you, and ye
Be witnesses for mankind!
So establish regular Prayer,
Give regular Charity,
And hold fast to God!
He is your Protector—
The best to protect
And the Best to help!
The same religion has He
Established for you as that
Which He enjoined on Noah—
The which We have sent
By inspiration to thee—
And that which We enjoined
On Abraham, Moses, and Jesus:
Namely, that ye should remain
Steadfast in Religion, and make
No divisions therein:
To those who worship
Other things than God,
Hard is the (way)
To which thou callest them,
God chooses to Himself
Those whom He pleases,
And guides to Himself
Those who turn (to Him).