Meaning: ask your permission · Also translated as: ask your leave, and they ask you permission, then let them ask permission, asked permission
Forms in the Quran
يَسْتَـْٔذِنُكَ×2
يَسْتَـْٔذِنُونَكَ×2
فَٱسْتَـْٔذَنُوكَ×1
ٱسْتَـْٔذَنَكَ×1
لِيَسْتَـْٔذِنكُمُ×1
فَلْيَسْتَـْٔذِنُوا۟×1
ٱسْتَـْٔذَنَ×1
يَسْتَـْٔذِنُوهُ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الأذن: الجارحة، وشبه به من حيث الحلقة أذن القدر وغيرها، ويستعار لمن كثر استماعه وقوله لما يسمع، قال تعالى: ويقولون: هو أذن قل: أذن خير لكم [التوبة/ 61] أي:
الهمزة والذال والنون أصلان متقاربان في المعنى، متباعدان في اللفظ، أحدهما أذن كل ذي أذن، والآخر العلم; وعنهما يتفرع الباب كله. فأما التقارب فبالأذن يقع علم كل مسموع. وأما تفرع الباب
Those who believe in God
And the Last Day ask thee
For no exemption from fighting
With their goods and persons.
And God knoweth well
Those who do their duty.
Only those ask thee for exemption
Who believe not in God
And the Last Day, and
Whose hearts are in doubt,
So that they are tossed
In their doubts to and fro.
If, then, God bring thee back
To any of them, and they ask
Thy permission to come out
(With thee), say: "Never shall ye
Come out with me, nor fight
An enemy with me:
For ye preferred to sit
Inactive on the first occasion:
Then sit ye (now)
With those who lag behind."
When a Sūra comes down,
Enjoining them to believe
In God and to strive and fight
Along with His Apostle,
Those with wealth and influence
Among them ask thee
For exemption, and say:
"Leave us (behind): we
Would be with those
Who sit (at home)."
The ground (of complaint)
Is against such as claim
Exemption while they are rich.
They prefer to stay
With the (women) who remain
Behind: God hath sealed
Their hearts; so they know not
(What they miss).
O ye who believe!
Let those whom your right hands
Possess, and the (children) among you
Who have not come of age
Ask your permission (before
They come to your presence),
On three occasions: before
Morning prayer; the while
Ye doff your clothes
For the noonday heat;
And after the late-night prayer:
These are your three times
Of undress: outside those times
It is not wrong for you
Or for them to move about
Attending to each other:
Thus does God make clear
The Signs to you: for God
Is full of knowledge and wisdom.
But when the children among you
Come of age, let them (also)
Ask for permission, as do those
Senior to them (in age):
Thus does God make clear
His Signs to you: for God
Is full of knowledge and wisdom.
Only those are Believers,
Who believe in God and
His Apostle: when they are
With him on a matter
Requiring collective action,
They do not depart until
They have asked for his leave;
Those who ask for thy leave
Are those who believe in God
And His Apostle; so when
They ask for thy leave,
For some business of theirs,
Give leave to those of them
Whom thou wilt, and ask
God for their forgiveness:
For God is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful.
Behold! A party among them
Said: "Ye men of Yathrib!
Ye cannot stand (the attack)!
Therefore go back!"
And a band of them
Ask for leave of the Prophet,
Saying, "Truly our houses
Are bare and exposed," though
They were not exposed:
They intended nothing but
To run away.