Meaning: He will cause to swallow · Also translated as: Allah will cave, Then We caused to swallow up, He would have caused it to swallow us, We caused to swallow
Forms in the Quran
يَخْسِفَ×3
فَخَسَفْنَا×1
لَخَسَفَ×1
خَسَفْنَا×1
نَخْسِفْ×1
وَخَسَفَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الخسوف للقمر، والكسوف للشمس ، وقال بعضهم: الكسوف فيهما إذا زال بعض ضوئهما، والخسوف: إذا ذهب كله. ويقال خسفه الله وخسف هو، قال تعالى: فخسفنا به وبداره الأرض [القصص/ 81] ، وقال: لولا أن من الله علينا لخسف بنا [القصص/ 82] ، وفي الحديث: «إن الشمس والقمر آيتان من آيات الله لا يخسفان لموت أحد ولا لحياته» ، وعين خاسفة: إذا…
قوله تعالى: ﴿فخسفنا به﴾ [القصص: 81]. الخسف: الخرق: أي فخرقنا الأرض به وجعلناها به مخروقة كما يخرق بالوتد. يقال: خسفه الله وخسف به. وقيل: الخسف: سؤوخ الارض بما عليها. ومنه الخسيف: البئر المحفورة في حجارة يخرج منها ماء كثير. "وسأل العباس رضي الله عنه: ما عين الشعراء؟ فقال: امرؤ القيس سابقهم؛ خسف لهم عين الشعراء" فاستعار…
Do then those who devise
Evil (plots) feel secure
That God will not cause
the earth to swallow them up,
Or that the Wrath will not
Seize them from directions
They little perceive?—
Do ye then feel secure
That He will not cause you
To be swallowed up
Beneath the earth
When ye are on land,
Or that He will not send
Against you a violent tornado
(With showers of stones)
So that ye shall find
No one to carry out
Your affairs for you?
Then We caused the earth
To swallow up him and
His house; and he had not
(The least little) party
To help him against God,
Nor could he defend himself.
And those who had envied
His position the day before
Began to say on the morrow:
"Ah! It is indeed God
Who enlarges the provision
Or restricts it, to any
Of His servants He pleases!
Had it not been that God
Was gracious to us, He
Could have caused the earth
To swallow us up! Ah!
Those who reject God
Will assuredly never prosper."
Each one of them We seized
For his crime: of them,
Against some We sent
A violent tornado (with showers
Of stones); some were caught
By a (mighty) Blast; some
We caused the earth
To swallow up; and some
We drowned (in the waters):
It was not God Who
Injured (or oppressed) them:
They injured (and oppressed)
Their own souls.
See they not what is
Before them and behind them,
Of the sky and the earth
If We wished, We could
Cause the earth to swallow
Them up, or cause a piece
Of the sky to fall upon them.
Verily in this is a Sign
For every devotee that
Turns to God (in repentance).