Meaning: and they should guard · Also translated as: them to guard, And guard, and we will protect, who guard him
Forms in the Quran
حَفِظَ×1
وَٱحْفَظُوٓا۟×1
وَنَحْفَظُ×1
يَحْفَظُونَهُۥ×1
وَحَفِظْنَٰهَا×1
وَيَحْفَظُوا۟×1
وَيَحْفَظْنَ×1
حِفْظ
Noun · 3 times
Meaning: And guard · Also translated as: guarding of both of them
Forms in the Quran
وَحِفْظًا×2
حِفْظُهُمَا×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الحفظ يقال تارة لهيئة النفس التي بها يثبت ما يؤدي إليه الفهم، وتارة لضبط الشيء في النفس، ويضاده النسيان، وتارة لاستعمال تلك القوة، فيقال: حفظت كذا حفظا، ثم يستعمل في كل تفقد وتعهد ورعاية، قال الله تعالى: وإنا له لحافظون
قوله تعالى: ﴿إنا نحن نزلنا الذكر وإنا له لحافظون﴾ [الحجر: 9] أي نمنعه من التبديل والتغيير والنقص. وأصل الحفظ: المنع للشيء بتفقده ورعايته، ومنه حفظ الدرس، وهو منع ما تدرسه أن يشذ عنك. والحفظ تارة لهيئة النفس التي بها يثبت ما يؤدي إليه التفهم وأخرى لضبط الشيء في النفس، ويضاده النسيان، وأخرى لاستعمال تلك القوة، فيقال:…
God! There is no god
But He,—the Living,
The Self-subsisting, Eternal.
No slumber can seize Him
Nor sleep. His are all things
In the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede
In His presence except
As He permitteth? He knoweth
What (appeareth to His creatures
As) Before or After
Or Behind them.
Nor shall they compass
Aught of His knowledge
Except as He willeth.
His Throne doth extend
Over the heavens
And the earth, and He feeleth
No fatigue in guarding,
And preserving them
For He is the Most High,
The Supreme (in glory).
Men are the protectors
And maintainers of women,
Because God has given
The one more (strength)
Than the other, and because
They support them
From their means.
Therefore the righteous women
Are devoutly obedient, and guard
In (the husband's) absence
What God would have them guard.
As to those women
On whose part ye fear
Disloyalty and ill-conduct,
Admonish them (first),
(Next), refuse to share their beds,
(And last) beat them (lightly);
But if they return to obedience,
Seek not against them
Means (of annoyance):
For God is Most High,
Great (above you all).
God will not call you
To account for what is
Futile in your oaths,
But He will call you
To account for your deliberate
Oaths: for expiation, feed
Ten indigent persons,
On a scale of the average
For the food of your families;
Or clothe them; or give
A slave his freedom.
If that is beyond your means,
Fast for three days.
That is the expiation
For the oaths ye have sworn.
But keep to your oaths.
Thus doth God make clear
To you His Signs, that ye
May be grateful.
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.
For each (such person)
There are (angels) in succession,
Before and behind him:
They guard him by command
Of God. Verily never
Will God change the condition
Of a people until they
Change it themselves
(With their own souls).
But when (once) God willeth
A people's punishment,
There can be no
Turning it back, nor
Will they find, besides Him,
Any to protect
Say to the believing men
That they should lower
Their gaze and guard
Their modesty: that will make
For greater purity for them:
And God is well acquainted
With all that they do.
And say to the believing women
That they should lower
Their gaze and guard
Their modesty; that they
Should not display their
Beauty and ornaments except
What (must ordinarily) appear
Thereof; that they should
Draw their veils over
Their bosoms and not display
Their beauty except
To their husbands, their fathers,
Their husbands’ fathers, their sons,
Their husbands’ sons,
Their brothers or their brothers’ sons,
Or their sisters’ sons,
Or their women, or the slaves
Whom their right hands
Possess, or male servants
Free of physical needs,
Or small children who
Have no sense of the shame
Of sex; and that they
Should not strike their feet
In order to draw attention
To their hidden ornaments.
And O ye Believers!
Turn ye all together
Towards God, that ye
May attain Bliss.
So he completed them
As seven firmaments
In two Days, and He
Assigned to each heaven
Its duty and command.
And We adorned
The lower heaven
With lights, and (provided it)
With guard. Such
Is the Decree of (Him)
The Exalted in Might,
Full of knowledge.