Meaning: a child · Also translated as: their children, a son, your children, because of her child
Forms in the Quran
وَلَدٌ×14
وَلَدًا×13
أَوْلَٰدَكُمْ×7
أَوْلَٰدُهُم×6
وَأَوْلَٰدُكُمْ×3
أَوْلَٰدَهُنَّ×2
وَأَوْلَٰدًا×2
وَٱلْأَوْلَٰدِ×2
وَلَدَ
Verb · 9 times
Meaning: Shall I bear a child · Also translated as: he was born, I was born
Forms in the Quran
وُلِدَ×3
ءَأَلِدُ×1
وُلِدتُّ×1
وَلَدْنَهُمْ×1
يَلِدُوٓا۟×1
يَلِدْ×1
يُولَدْ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الولد: المولود. يقال للواحد والجمع والصغير والكبير. قال الله تعالى: فإن لم يكن له ولد
الواو واللام والدال: أصل صحيح، وهو دليل النجل والنسل، ثم يقاس عليه غيره. من ذلك الولد، وهو للواحد والجميع، ويقال للواحد ولد أيضا. والوليدة الأنثى، والجمع ولائد. وتولد الشيء عن الشيء: حصل عنه. واللدة نقصانه الواو لأن أصله ولدة.
Had God wished
To take to Himself
A son, He could have
Chosen whom He pleased
Out of those whom He
Doth create: but Glory
Be to Him! (He is above
Such things.) He is God,
The One, the Irresistible.
Know ye (all), that
The life of this world
Is but play and amusement,
Pomp and mutual boasting
And multiplying, (in rivalry)
Among yourselves, riches
And children.
Here is a similitude:
How rain and the growth
Which it brings forth, delight
(The hearts of) the tillers;
Soon it withers; thou
Wilt see it grow yellow;
Then it becomes dry
And crumbles away.
But in the Hereafter
Is a Penalty severe
(For the devotees of wrong).
And Forgiveness from God
And (His) Good Pleasure
(For the devotees of God).
And what is the life
Of this world, but
Goods and chattels
Of deception?
If any men among you
Divorce their wives by
(Calling them mothers),
They cannot be their mothers:
None can be their mothers
Except those who gave them
Birth. And in fact
They use words (both) iniquitous
And false: but truly
God is One that blots out
(Sins), and forgives
(Again and again).
O Prophet!
When believing women come
To thee to take the oath
Of fealty to thee, that they
Will not associate in worship
Any other thing whatever
With God, that they
Will not steal, that they
Will not commit adultery
(Or fornication), that they
Will not kill their children,
That they will not utter
Slander, intentionally forging
Falsehood, and that they
Will not disobey thee
In any just matter,
Then do thou receive
Their fealty, and pray to God
For the forgiveness (of
Their sins): for God is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
O ye who believe!
Truly, among your wives
And your children are (some
That are) enemies to
Yourselves: so beware
Of them! But if ye
Forgive and overlook,
And cover up (their faults),
Verily God is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.