Meaning: and grant succession · Also translated as: and make you successors, And my Lord will give succession, surely He will grant them succession, He gave succession
Forms in the Quran
وَيَسْتَخْلِفْ×2
وَيَسْتَخْلِفَكُمْ×1
لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ×1
ٱسْتَخْلَفَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
خلف: ضد القدام، قال تعالى: يعلم ما بين أيديهم وما خلفهم [البقرة/ 255] ، وقال تعالى: له معقبات من بين يديه ومن خلفه [الرعد/ 11] ، وقال تعالى: فاليوم ننجيك ببدنك لتكون لمن خلفك آية [يونس/ 92] ، وخلف ضد تقدم وسلف، والمتأخر لقصور منزلته يقال له: خلف، ولهذا قيل: الخلف الرديء، والمتأخر لا لقصور منزلته يقال له: خلف، قال…
قوله تعالى: ﴿وما خلفهم﴾ [البقرة: 255] خلف: ظرف مكان مثل وراء، وهما ضدا: أمام وقدام، وتصرفه قليل. وتخلف ضد تقدم وسلف. فالمتأخر لقصور منزلته يقال له خلف. قال تعالى: ﴿فخلف من بعدهم خلف﴾ [الأعراف: 169]. وفرقوا بين الصالح والطالح بفتحة فقالوا: خلف سوء وخلف خير. ومنه قول العلماء: أجمع عليه السلف والخلف. وقالوا: «سكت ألفا…
Thy Lord is Self-sufficient,
Full of Mercy: if it were
His Will, He could destroy
You, and in your place
Appoint whom He will
As your successors, even as
He raised you up
From the posterity
Of other people.
They said: "We have had
(Nothing but) trouble, both before
And after thou camest
To us." He said:
"It may be that your Lord
Will destroy your enemy
And make you inheritors
In the earth; that so
He may try you
By your deeds."
"If ye turn away,—
I (at least) have conveyed
The Message with which I
Was sent to you. My Lord
Will make another People
To succeed you, and you
Will not harm Him
In the least. For my Lord
Hath care and watch
Over all things."
God has promised, to those
Among you who believe
And work righteous deeds, that He
Will, of a surety, grant them
In the land, inheritance
(Of power), as He granted it
To those before them; that
He will establish in authority
Their religion—the one
Which He has chosen for them;
And that He will change
(Their state), after the fear
In which they (lived), to one
Of security and peace:
'They will worship Me (alone)
And not associate aught with Me.'
If any do reject Faith
After this, they are
Rebellious and wicked.