Meaning: she ransoms · Also translated as: he offered as ransom, to ransom themselves, it seek to ransom, surely they would offer ransom
Forms in the Quran
لَٱفْتَدَوْا۟×2
ٱفْتَدَتْ×1
ٱفْتَدَىٰ×1
لِيَفْتَدُوا۟×1
لَٱفْتَدَتْ×1
يَفْتَدِى×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الفدى والفداء: حفظ الإنسان عن النائبة بما يبذله عنه، قال تعالى: فإما منا بعد وإما فداء
قوله تعالى: ﴿وإن يأتوكم أساري تفادوهم﴾] البقرة:85 [. الفداء والفدى- بالمد والقصر- بذل شيء في مقابلة نفس الإنسان من مال أو أسير آخر، وقرئ: "تفدوهم" و"تفادوهم" في المتواتر فقيل: هما بمعنى؛ يقال: فداه وفاداه. وقيل: فداه إذا بذل في مقابلته مالا، وفاداه: إذا بذل في مقابلته أسيرا آخر كأنهم راعوا المفاعلة؛ فمن المد قول حسان…
A divorce is only
Permissible twice: after that,
The parties should either hold
Together on equitable terms,
Or separate with kindness.
It is not lawful for you,
(Men), to take back
Any of your gifts (from your wives)
Except when both parties
Fear that they would be
Unable to keep the limits
Ordained by God.
If ye (judges) do indeed
Fear that they would be
Unable to keep the limits
Ordained by God,
There is no blame on either
Of them if she give
Something for her freedom.
These are the limits
Ordained by God;
So do not transgress them
If any do transgress
The limits ordained by God,
Such persons wrong
(Themselves as well as others).
As to those who reject
Faith, and die rejecting,—
Never would be accepted
From any such as much
Gold as the earth contains,
Though they should offer it
For ransom. For such
Is (in store) a penalty grievous,
And they will find no helpers.
As to those who reject
Faith,—if they had
Everything on earth,
And twice repeated,
To give as ransom
For the penalty of the Day
Of Judgment, it would
Never be accepted of them.
Theirs would be
A grievous Penalty.
Every soul that hath sinned,
If it possessed all
That is on earth,
Would fain give it in ransom:
They would declare (their) repentance
When they see the Penalty:
But the judgment between them
Will be with justice,
And no wrong will be done
Unto them.
For those who respond
To their Lord, are (all)
Good things. But those
Who respond not to Him,
Even if they had all
That is in the heavens
And on earth, and as much more,
(In vain) would they offer it
For ransom. For them
Will the reckoning be terrible:
Their abode will be Hell,——
What a bed of misery!
Even if the wrong-doers
Had all that there is
On earth, and as much more,
(In vain) would they offer it
For ransom from the pain
Of the Penalty on the Day
Of Judgment: but something
Will confront them from God,
Which they could never
Have counted upon!
Though they will be put
In sight of each other,—
The sinner's desire will be:
Would that he could
Redeem himself from
The Penalty of that Day
By (sacrificing) his children,