Meaning: We tried · Also translated as: harm you, they tempt you away, We try, tempt you
Forms in the Quran
فَتَنَّا×5
يُفْتَنُونَ×3
فُتِنُوا۟×2
فُتِنتُم×2
لِنَفْتِنَهُمْ×2
يَفْتِنَكُمُ×1
يَفْتِنُوكَ×1
يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
أصل الفتن: إدخال الذهب النار لتظهر جودته من رداءته، واستعمل في إدخال الإنسان النار.
قوله تعالى: ﴿إن الذين فتنوا المؤمنين والمؤمنات﴾] البروج:10 [. قيل: معناه حرقوهم بالنار، وذلك أنهم لما خدوا أخاديد في الأرض ملؤوها نارا، وكانت على أفواه السكك فمن أبى دينهم ألقوه في تلك الحفرة. وأصله من فتنت الفضة: إذا أدخلتها النار ليتميز جيدها من رديئها، ثم أطلق ذلك على الابتلاء والامتحان.
When ye travel
Through the earth,
There is no blame on you
If ye shorten your prayers,
For fear the Unbelievers
May attack you:
For the Unbelievers are
Unto you open enemies.
And this (He commands):
Judge thou between them
By what God hath revealed,
And follow not their vain
Desires, but beware of them
Lest they beguile thee
From any of that (teaching)
Which God hath sent down
To thee. And if they turn
Away, be assured that
For some of their crimes
It is God's purpose to punish
Them. And truly most men
Are rebellious.
Thus did We try
Some of them by comparison
With others, that they
Should say: "Is it these
Then that God hath
Favoured from amongst us?"
Doth not God know best
Those who are grateful?
O ye Children of Adam!
Let not Satan seduce you,
In the same manner as
He got your parents out
Of the Garden, stripping them
Of their raiment, to expose
Their shame: for he
And his tribe watch you
From a position where ye
Cannot see them: We made
The Evil Ones friends
(Only) to those without Faith.
Among them is (many) a man
Who says: "Grant me exemption
And draw me not.
Into trial." Have they not
Fallen into trial already?
And indeed Hell surrounds
The Unbelievers (on all sides).
But none believed in Moses
Except some children of his People,
Because of the fear of Pharaoh
And his chiefs, lest they
Should persecute them; and certainly
Pharaoh was mighty on the earth
And one who transgressed all bounds.
But verily thy Lord,—
To those who leave their homes
After trials and persecutions,—
And who thereafter strive
And fight for the Faith
And patiently persevere,
Thy Lord, after all this
Is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
And their purpose was
To tempt thee away
From that which We
Had revealed unto thee,
To substitute in Our name
Something quite different:
(In that case), behold!
They would certainly have
Made thee (their) friend!
"Behold! thy sister goeth forth
And saith, "Shall I show you
One who will nurse
And rear the (child)?
So We brought thee back
To thy mother, that her eye
Might be cooled and she
Should not grieve.
Then thou didst slay
A man, but We saved thee
From trouble, and We tried
Thee in various ways.
Then didst thou tarry
A number of years
With the people of Midian.
Then didst thou come hither
As ordained, O Moses!
Aaron had already, before this
Said to them: ."O my people!
Ye are being tested in this:
For verily your Lord is (God)
Most Gracious: so follow me
And obey my command."
Nor strain thine eyes in longing
For the things We have given
For enjoyment to parties ,
Of them, the splendour
Of the life of this world,
Through which We test them:
But the provision of thy Lord
Is better and more enduring.
(David) said: "He has
Undoubtedly wronged thee
In demanding thy (single) ewe
To be added to his (flock
Of) ewes: truly many
Are the Partners (in business)
Who wrong each other:
Not so do those who believe
And work deeds of righteousness,
And how few are they?"…
And David gathered that we
Had tried him: he asked
Forgiveness of his Lord,
Fell down, bowing
(In prostration), and turned
(To God in repentance).