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verb
كَتَبَ
Rootك ت ب
English Translationto write, to prescribe, to ordain
Frequency49
FormI
Surah Al-Qalam (68:47) Quran.com
أَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down? (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Mujadila (58:21) Quran.com
كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ Allah has written, "I will surely overcome, I and My messengers." Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might. (Sahih International)
Surah At-Tur (52:41) Quran.com
أَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down? (Sahih International)
Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:80) Quran.com
بَلَىٰ وَرُسُلُنَا لَدَيْهِمْ يَكْتُبُونَ Or do they think that We hear not their secrets and their private conversations? Yes, [We do], and Our messengers are with them recording. (Sahih International)
Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:19) Quran.com
سَتُكْتَبُ شَهَادَتُهُمْ وَيُسْأَلُونَ And they have made the angels, who are servants of the Most Merciful, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded, and they will be questioned. (Sahih International)
Surah Yasin (36:12) Quran.com
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and what they left behind, and all things We have enumerated in a clear register. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Anbiya (21:105) Quran.com
وَلَقَدْ كَتَبْنَا فِي الزَّبُورِ مِنْ بَعْدِ الذِّكْرِ أَنَّ الْأَرْضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِيَ الصَّالِحُونَ And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention that the land [of Paradise] is inherited by My righteous servants. (Sahih International)
Surah Maryam (19:79) Quran.com
كَلَّا سَنَكْتُبُ مَا يَقُولُ وَنَمُدُّ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ مَدًّا No! We will record what he says and extend for him from the punishment extensively. (Sahih International)
Surah At-Tawbah (9:121) Quran.com
وَلَا يَقْطَعُونَ وَادِيًا إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُمْ Nor do they spend an expenditure, small or large, or cross a valley but that it is registered for them that Allah may reward them for the best of what they were doing. (Sahih International)
Surah At-Tawbah (9:51) Quran.com
قُلْ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَنَا Say, "Never will we be struck except by what Allah has decreed for us; He is our protector." And upon Allah let the believers rely. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Araf (7:145) Quran.com
وَكَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِي الْأَلْوَاحِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مَوْعِظَةً And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], "Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient." (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Maidah (5:83) Quran.com
يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا آمَنَّا فَاكْتُبْنَا مَعَ الشَّاهِدِينَ And when they hear what has been revealed to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they have recognized of the truth. They say, "Our Lord, we have believed, so register us among the witnesses. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Maidah (5:21) Quran.com
يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah 's cause] and [thus] become losers." (Sahih International)
Surah An-Nisa (4:127) Quran.com
فِي يَتَامَى النِّسَاءِ اللَّاتِي لَا تُؤْتُونَهُنَّ مَا كُتِبَ لَهُنَّ And they request from you, [O Muhammad], a [legal] ruling concerning women. Say, "Allah gives you a ruling about them and [about] what has been recited to you in the Book concerning the orphan girls to whom you do not give what is decreed for them - and [yet] you desire to marry them - and concerning the oppressed among children and that you maintain for orphans [their rights] in justice." And whatever you do of good - indeed, Allah is ever Knowing of it. (Sahih International)
Surah Aal-E-Imran (3:181) Quran.com
سَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَالُوا وَقَتْلَهُمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ Allah has certainly heard the statement of those [Jews] who said, "Indeed, Allah is poor, while we are rich." We will record what they said and their killing of the prophets without right and will say, "Taste the punishment of the Burning Fire. (Sahih International)