Rizwan Zubair

Root و ف ض w-f-ḍ

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و ف ضw-f-ḍ

— أَوْفَضَ يُوْفِضُ إِيْفَاضًاawfaḍa yūfiḍu īfāḍan (verb form ifʿāl): to run swiftly; to rush. The lexicographers say the basic sense is haste and agitation. Only once in the Quran, in the scene of the dead emerging from their graves on the Day of Resurrection: ﴿يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُوْنَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلٰى نُصُبٍ يُّوْفِضُوْنَ﴾ (Al-Maʿārij 70:43).

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