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قدم

q-d-m

The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

Root

ق-د-م

43

Total uses

43

Verses

34

Surahs

19

Forms

Root

ق-د-م

Root Meaning

The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

Derived forms

قَدَّمَتۡ16تُقَدِّمُواْ4قَدَمَ4أَقۡدَامَنَا3ٱلۡقَدِيمِ2وَقَدِّمُواْ1ٱلۡأَقۡدَامَ1يَقۡدُمُ1قَدَّمۡتُمۡ1وَقَدِمۡنَآ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (10)

Al-Baqarah 2:95

قَدَّمَتْMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

But they will never long for it, because of that which their own hands have sent before them. Allah is aware of evil-doers

Aal-Imran 3:147

أَقْدَامَنَاMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

Their cry was only that they said: Our Lord! forgive us for our sins and wasted efforts, make our foothold sure, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk

Al-Anfal 8:11

ٱلْأَقْدَامَMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

When He made the slumber fall upon you as a reassurance from him and sent down water from the sky upon you, that thereby He might purify you, and remove from you the fear of Satan, and make strong your hearts and firm (your) feet thereby

Yusuf 12:48

قَدَّمْتُمْMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

Then after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored

Al-Kahf 18:57

قَدَّمَتْMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

And who doth greater wrong than he who hath been reminded of the revelations of his Lord, yet turneth away from them and forgetteth what his hands send forward (to the Judgment)? Lo! on their hearts We have placed coverings so that they understand not, and in their ears a deafness. And though thou call them to the guidance, in that case they can never be led aright

Ar-Rum 30:36

قَدَّمَتْMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

And when We cause mankind to taste of mercy they rejoice therein; but if an evil thing befall them as the consequence of their own deeds, lo! they are in despair

Sad 38:60

قَدَّمْتُمُوهُMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

They say: Nay, but you (misleaders), for you there is no word of welcome. Ye prepared this for us (by your misleading). Now hapless is the plight

Muhammad 47:7

أَقْدَامَكُمْMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

O ye who believe! If ye help Allah, He will help you and will make your foothold firm

Al-Mujadila 58:12

فَقَدِّمُوا۟Meaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

O ye who believe! When ye hold conference with the messenger, offer an alms before your conference. That is better and purer for you. But if ye cannot find (the wherewithal) then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful

Al-Muddaththir 74:37

يَتَقَدَّمَMeaning here: The root QDM relates to putting something forward, advancing it, or causing it to precede. It can mean to offer, present, or prepare something beforehand.

Unto him of you who will advance or hang back

🔎 Across the Quran (33)

Al-Baqarah 2:110

وَأَقِيمُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتُواْ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَۚ وَمَا لِأَنفُسِكُم مِّنۡ خَيۡرࣲ تَجِدُوهُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ بَصِيرࣱ‏

(Rest assured that) Allah has full power over everything: establish the Salat and pay the Zakat. you will find with Allah whatever good you send forward for your future; Allah is watching everything you do

Al-Baqarah 2:223

نِسَآؤُكُمۡ حَرۡثࣱ لَّكُمۡ فَأۡتُواْ حَرۡثَكُمۡ أَنَّىٰ شِئۡتُمۡۖ لِأَنفُسِكُمۡۚ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّكُم مُّلَٰقُوهُۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ

Your wives are your tilth: so you may go to your tilth as you please, but you should take care of your future and refrain from the displeasure of Allah. Know it well that One Day you shall meet Him. (O Prophet!) bear good tidings to the Believers

Al-Baqarah 2:250

وَلَمَّا بَرَزُواْ لِجَالُوتَ وَجُنُودِهِۦ قَالُواْ رَبَّنَآ أَفۡرِغۡ عَلَيۡنَا صَبۡرࣰ ا وَثَبِّتۡ وَٱنصُرۡنَا عَلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ

Accordingly, when they marched forward to fight with Goliath and his hosts, they prayed, "Our Lord, bless us with fortitude, make firm our foothold and give us victory over the unbelieving host

Aal-Imran 3:182

ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا أَيۡدِيكُمۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَيۡسَ بِظَلَّامࣲ لِّلۡعَبِيدِ

That is in recompense for what you have done.' Allah does no wrong to His servants

An-Nisa 4:62

فَكَيۡفَ إِذَآ أَصَٰبَتۡهُم مُّصِيبَةُۢ بِمَا أَيۡدِيهِمۡ ثُمَّ جَآءُوكَ يَحۡلِفُونَ بِٱللَّهِ إِنۡ أَرَدۡنَآ إِلَّآ إِحۡسَٰنࣰ ا وَتَوۡفِيقًا

But what happens when some misfortune visits them because of their own misdeeds? Then, they come to you swearing by Allah, saying: 'We wanted nothing but to do good and to bring about conciliation (between the two parties)

Al-Ma'idah 5:80

تَرَىٰ كَثِيرࣰ ا مِّنۡهُمۡ يَتَوَلَّوۡنَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْۚ لَبِئۡسَ مَا لَهُمۡ أَنفُسُهُمۡ أَن سَخِطَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيۡهِمۡ وَفِي ٱلۡعَذَابِ هُمۡ خَٰلِدُونَ

And now you can see many of them taking the unbelievers (instead of the believers) for their allies. Indeed they have prepared evil for themselves. Allah is angry with them, and they shall abide in chastisement

Al-Anfal 8:51

ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا أَيۡدِيكُمۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَيۡسَ بِظَلَّٰمࣲ لِّلۡعَبِيدِ

This is your punishment for what your hands wrought. Allah is not unjust in the least to His creatures

Yunus 10:2

أَكَانَ لِلنَّاسِ عَجَبًا أَنۡ أَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ رَجُلࣲ مِّنۡهُمۡ أَنۡ أَنذِرِ ٱلنَّاسَ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ أَنَّ لَهُمۡ صِدۡقٍ عِندَ رَبِّهِمۡۗ قَالَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَٰحِرࣱ مُّبِينٌ

Does it seem strange to people that We should have revealed to a man from among themselves, directing him to warn the people (who lie engrossed in heedlessness); and to give good news to the believers that they shall enjoy true honour and an exalted status with their Lord? (Is this so strange that) the deniers of the truth should say: 'This man is indeed an evident sorcerer

Hud 11:98

قَوۡمَهُۥ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ فَأَوۡرَدَهُمُ ٱلنَّارَۖ وَبِئۡسَ ٱلۡوِرۡدُ ٱلۡمَوۡرُودُ

He shall stand at the head of his people on the Day of Resurrection, and will bring them down to the Fire. What a wretched destination to be led to

Yusuf 12:95

قَالُواْ تَٱللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَفِي ضَلَٰلِكَ

They said: "Surely you are still in your same old craze

An-Nahl 16:94

وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوٓاْ أَيۡمَٰنَكُمۡ دَخَلَۢا بَيۡنَكُمۡ فَتَزِلَّ بَعۡدَ ثُبُوتِهَا وَتَذُوقُواْ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِمَا صَدَدتُّمۡ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَكُمۡ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمࣱ‏

Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or else your foot may slip after having been firm, and you may suffer evil consequences because of hindering people from the way of Allah. A mighty chastisement awaits you

Al-Hajj 22:10

ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا يَدَاكَ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَيۡسَ بِظَلَّٰمࣲ لِّلۡعَبِيدِ

That is the outcome of what your own hands have wrought, for Allah never wrongs His creatures

Al-Furqan 25:23

إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُواْ مِنۡ عَمَلࣲ فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُ هَبَآءࣰ مَّنثُورًا

Then We shall turn to what they had done and render it vain like scattered dust

Ash-Shu'ara 26:76

أَنتُمۡ وَءَابَآؤُكُمُ

you and your forefathers of yore

Al-Qasas 28:47

وَلَوۡلَآ أَن تُصِيبَهُم مُّصِيبَةُۢ بِمَا أَيۡدِيهِمۡ فَيَقُولُواْ رَبَّنَا لَوۡلَآ أَرۡسَلۡتَ إِلَيۡنَا رَسُولࣰ ا فَنَتَّبِعَ ءَايَٰتِكَ وَنَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ

(We did so) lest a calamity might seize them because of the misdeeds they committed whereafter they would say: "Our Lord, why did you not send a Messenger to us that we follow Your revelation and become among those who believe

Ya-Sin 36:12

إِنَّا نَحۡنُ نُحۡيِ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَنَكۡتُبُ مَا وَءَاثَٰرَهُمۡۚ وَكُلَّ شَيۡءٍ أَحۡصَيۡنَٰهُ فِيٓ إِمَامࣲ مُّبِينࣲ‏

We shall surely raise the dead to life and We record what they did and the traces of their deeds that they have left behind. We have encompassed that in a Clear Book

Ya-Sin 36:39

وَٱلۡقَمَرَ قَدَّرۡنَٰهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَٱلۡعُرۡجُونِ

We have appointed stages for the moon till it returns in the shape of a dry old branch of palm-tree

Sad 38:61

قَالُواْ رَبَّنَا مَن لَنَا هَٰذَا فَزِدۡهُ عَذَابࣰ ا ضِعۡفࣰ ا فِي ٱلنَّارِ

They will say: “Our Lord, give twofold punishment in the Fire to him who has led us to this.”

Fussilat 41:29

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ رَبَّنَآ أَرِنَا ٱلَّذَيۡنِ أَضَلَّانَا مِنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِ نَجۡعَلۡهُمَا تَحۡتَ لِيَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلۡأَسۡفَلِينَ

There the unbelievers will say: “Our Lord, show us those that led us astray, both jinn and humans, and we will trample them under our feet so that they are utterly degraded.”

Ash-Shura 42:48

فَإِنۡ أَعۡرَضُواْ فَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَٰكَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ حَفِيظًاۖ إِنۡ عَلَيۡكَ إِلَّا ٱلۡبَلَٰغُۗ وَإِنَّآ إِذَآ أَذَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنَّا رَحۡمَةࣰ فَرِحَ بِهَاۖ وَإِن تُصِبۡهُمۡ سَيِّئَةُۢ بِمَا أَيۡدِيهِمۡ فَإِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ كَفُورࣱ‏

(O Prophet), if they turn away from the Truth, know that We did not send you to them as their overseer. Your task is only to convey (the Message). Indeed when We give man a taste of Our Mercy, he exults in it. But if any misfortune afflicts them on account of their deeds, man is utterly ungrateful

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