Meaning: they increased · Also translated as: so that they may increase, increased, and get an increase, they exceed
Forms in the Quran
ٱزْدَادُوا۟×2
لِيَزْدَادُوٓا۟×2
وَنَزْدَادُ×1
تَزْدَادُ×1
وَٱزْدَادُوا۟×1
وَيَزْدَادَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
قوله تعالى: ﴿ويزيد الله الذين اهتدوا هدى﴾ [مريم: 76]. الزيادة: ضم شيء إلى ما عليه الشيء في نفسه، والمراد بزيادة الهدى زيادة أسبابه المقتضية لتقويته. وزاد يتعدى لواحد ولاثنين، نحو: ﴿فزادهم الله مرضا﴾ [البقرة: 10] وقد يكون لازما نحو:
الزاء والياء والدال أصل يدل على الفضل. يقولون زاد الشيء يزيد، فهو زائد. وهؤلاء قوم زيد على كذا، أي يزيدون. قال:
But those who reject
Faith after they accepted it,
And then go on adding
To their defiance of Faith,—
Never will their repentance
Be accepted; for they
Are those who have
(Of set purpose) gone astray.
Let not the Unbelievers
Think that Our respite
To them is good for themselves:
We grant them respite
That they may grow
In their iniquity:
But they will have
A shameful punishment.
Those who believe,
Then reject Faith,
Then believe (again)
And (again) reject Faith,
And go on increasing
In Unbelief,—God
Will not forgive them
Nor guide them on the Way.
Then when they opened
Their baggage, they found
Their stock-in-trade had been
Returned to them. They said:
"O our father! What (more)
Can we desire? This our
Stock-in-trade has been returned
To us: so we shall get
(More) food for our family;
We shall take care of our brother;
And add (at the same time)
A full camel's load (of grain
To our provisions).
This is but a small quantity.
God doth know what
Every female (womb) doth bear,
By how much the wombs
Fall short (of their time
Or number) or do exceed.
Every single thing is before
His sight, in (due) proportion.
It is He Who sent
Down Tranquillity
Into the hearts of
The Believers, that they may
Add Faith to their Faith;—
For to God belong
The Forces of the heavens
And the earth; and God is
Full of Knowledge and Wisdom;—
And We have set none
But angels as guardians
Of the Fire; and We
Have fixed their number
Only as a trial
For Unbelievers,—in order
That the People of the Book
May arrive at certainty,
And the Believers may increase
In Faith,—and that no doubts
May be left for the People
Of the Book and the Believers,
And that those in whose hearts
Is a disease and the Unbelievers
May say, "What symbol
Doth God intend by this?
Thus doth God leave to stray
Whom He pleaseth, and guide
Whom He pleaseth: and none
Can know the forces
Of thy Lord, except He.
And this is no other than
A warning to mankind.