Meaning: Give me respite · Also translated as: will be reprieved, will be given respite, respite would have been granted to them, will be granted respite
Forms in the Quran
يُنظَرُونَ×6
تُنظِرُونِ×3
فَأَنظِرْنِىٓ×2
أَنظِرْنِىٓ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
النظر: تقليب البصر والبصيرة لإدراك الشيء ورؤيته، وقد يراد به التأمل والفحص، وقد يراد به المعرفة الحاصلة بعد الفحص، وهو الروية.
قوله تعالى: ﴿ثم نظر﴾ [المدثر: 21] النظر في الأصل تقليب البصر وتوجيهه إلى جهة المنظور، فهو بمعنى الرؤية. ثم يستعمل في تقليب البصيرة، فيكون بمعنى التفكر. قال بعضهم: هو تقلب البصر أو البصيرة لإدراك الشيء ورؤيته. وقد يراد به التأمل والفحص. وقد يراد به المعرفة الحاصلة بعد الفحص.
They say: "Why is not
An angel sent down to him?"
If We did send down
An angel, the matter
Would be settled at once,
And no respite
Would be granted them.
Have they feet to walk with?
Or hands to lay hold with?
Or eyes to see with?
Or ears to hear with?
Say: "Call your 'god-partners',
Scheme (your worst) against me,
And give me no respite!
Relate to them the story
Of Noah. Behold! he said
To his People: "O my People,
If it be hard on your (mind)
That I should stay (with you)
And commemorate the Signs
Of God,—yet I put
My trust in God.
Get ye then an agreement
About your plan and among
Your Partners, so your plan
Be not to you dark and dubious.
Then pass your sentence on me,
And give me no respite.