Meaning: the clear proofs · Also translated as: clear, with the clear Signs, [the] clear signs, with [the] clear signs
Forms in the Quran
بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ×24
بَيِّنَٰتٍ×17
بَيِّنَةٍ×14
ٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ×11
بِبَيِّنَةٍ×2
ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ×2
وَبَيِّنَٰتٍ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
بين موضوع للخلالة بين الشيئين ووسطهما. قال تعالى: وجعلنا بينهما زرعا [الكهف/ 32] ، يقال: بان كذا أي: انفصل وظهر ما كان مستترا منه، ولما اعتبر فيه معنى الانفصال والظهور استعمل في كل واحد منفردا، فقيل للبئر البعيدة القعر: بيون، لبعد ما بين الشفير والقعر لانفصال حبلها من يد صاحبها. وبان الصبح:
بأن الشيء يبين بينا فهو بائن. وبان بمعنى فارق. قال كعب بن زهير: [من البسيط]
Is then one who is
On a clear (Path)
From his Lord,
No better than one
To whom the evil
Of his conduct seems pleasing,
And such as follow
Their own lusts?
He is the One Who
Sends to His Servant
Manifest Signs, that He
May lead you from
The depths of Darkness
Into the Light And verily,
God is to you
Most kind and Merciful.
We sent aforetime
Our apostles with Clear Signs
And sent down with them
The Book and the Balance
(Of Right and Wrong), that men
May stand forth in justice;
And We sent down Iron
In which is (material for)
Mighty war, as well as
Many benefits for mankind,
That God may test who
It is that will help,
Unseen, Him and His apostles:
For God is Full of Strength,
Exalted in Might
(And able to enforce His Will).
Those who resist God
And His Apostle will be
Humbled to dust, as were
Those before them: for We
Have already sent down
Clear Signs. And the Unbelievers
(Will have) a humiliating Penalty,—
And remember, Jesus,
The son of Mary, said:
"O Children of Israel!
I am the apostle of God
(Sent) to you, confirming
The Law (which came)
Before me, and giving
Glad Tidings of an Apostle
To come after me,
Whose name shall be Aḥmad."
But when he came to them
With Clear Signs,
They said, "This is
Evident sorcery!"
That was because there
Came to them apostles
With Clear Signs,
But they said:
"Shall (mere) human beings
Direct us?" So they rejected
(The Message) and turned away.
But God can do without (them):
And God is
Free of all needs,
Worthy of all praise.
Those who reject (Truth),
Among the People of the Book
And among the Polytheists,
Were not going to depart
(From their ways) until
There should come to them
Clear Evidence,—