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Root ق ی ض q-y-ḍ

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ق ی ضq-y-ḍ

(ض) قَاضَ يَقِيْضُ قَيْضًاqāḍa yaqīḍu qayḍan (original form: قَيَضَqayaḍa): to exchange; to set over. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)

Form II (tafʿīl) قَيَّضَ يُقَيِّضُ تَقْيِيْضًاqayyaḍa yuqayyiḍu taqyīḍan: to appoint someone over another, to set over — and in the Quran, on both occasions, this is attributed to Allah, for good as well as for evil. Twice in the Quran: ﴿وَقَيَّضْنَا لَهُمْ قُرَنَاءَ﴾ (Fuṣṣilat 41:25) and ﴿نُقَيِّضْ لَهُۥ شَيْطَانًا فَهُوَ لَهُۥ قَرِيْنٌ﴾ (Az-Zukhruf 43:36).

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