Meaning: We established · Also translated as: We had established them, [We] established, has established me, We establish them
Forms in the Quran
مَّكَّنَّٰهُمْ×3
مَكَّنَّا×3
نُمَكِّن×2
مَكَّنَّٰكُمْ×2
مَكَّنِّى×1
وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ×1
وَنُمَكِّنَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
المكان عند أهل اللغة: الموضع الحاوي
قوله تعالى: ﴿مكناهم في الأرض﴾ [الأنعام:6] أي ملكناهم وجعلناهم متمكنين من المكان الذي وليناهم إياه أي قويناهم، من تمكن فلان من كذا: إذا قدر عليه وأطاقه. وأصله من المكان. والمكان لغة هو الحاوي للشيء، وعند بعض المتكلمين أنه عرض، وهو اجتماع جنسين حاو ومحوي، وذلك أن يكون سطح الجسم الحاوي محيطا بالمحوي، فالمكان عندهم هو…
See they not how many
Of those before them
We did destroy?—
Generations We had established
On the earth, in strength
Such as We have not given
To you—for whom
We poured out rain
From the skies in abundance,
And gave (fertile) streams
Flowing beneath their (feet):
Yet for their sins
We destroyed them,
And raised in their wake
Fresh generations
(To succeed them).
It is We Who have
Placed you with authority
On earth, and provided
You therein with means
For the fulfilment of your life:
Small are the thanks
That ye give!
The man in Egypt
Who bought him, said
To his wife: "Make his stay
(Among us) honourable:
Maybe he will bring us
Much good, or we shall
Adopt him as a son."
Thus did We establish
Joseph in the land,
That We might teach him
The interpretation of stories
(And events). And God
Hath full power and control
Over His affairs; but most
Among mankind know it not.
"Thus did we give
Established power to Joseph
In the land, to take possession
Therein as, when, or where
He pleased. We bestow
Of Our mercy on whom
We please, and We suffer not,
To be lost, the reward
Of those who do good.
He said: "(The power) in which
My Lord has established me
Is better (than tribute):
Help me therefore with strength
(And labour): I will
Erect a strong barrier
Between you and them:
(They are) those who,
If We establish them
In the land, establish
Regular prayer and give
Regular charity, enjoin
The right and forbid wrong:
With God rests the end
(And decision) of (all) affairs.
God has promised, to those
Among you who believe
And work righteous deeds, that He
Will, of a surety, grant them
In the land, inheritance
(Of power), as He granted it
To those before them; that
He will establish in authority
Their religion—the one
Which He has chosen for them;
And that He will change
(Their state), after the fear
In which they (lived), to one
Of security and peace:
'They will worship Me (alone)
And not associate aught with Me.'
If any do reject Faith
After this, they are
Rebellious and wicked.
To establish a firm place
For them in the land,
And to show Pharaoh, Haman,
And their hosts, at their hands,
The very things against which
They were taking precautions.
They say: "If we were
To follow the guidance with thee,
We should be snatched away
From our land." Have We not
Established for them a secure
Sanctuary, to which are brought
As tribute fruits of all kinds,—
A provision from Ourselves?
But most of them understand not.
And We had firmly established
Them in a (prosperity and) power
Which We have not given
To you (ye Quraish!)
And We had endowed them
With (faculties of)
Hearing, seeing, heart and intellect
But of no profit to them
Were their (faculties of)
Hearing, sight, and heart
And intellect, when they
Went on rejecting the Signs
Of God; and they were
(Completely) encircled
By that which they
Used to mock at!