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Ra-Sad-Dal

General Root Meaning

to watch, lay in wait, observe, prepare, ambush. marsadun - place of ambush, military post, place of observation.
mirsad - watch, look out.
irsad - means of preparation or finding out, hiding place, lurking place.

raṣadan
(Word Translations: 2)
- a guard
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 72:27 Except whom He has approved of a Messenger, and indeed, He makes to march from (from) between hands and from behind him a guard,
- waiting
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 72:9 And that we used to sit there in positions for hearing, but (he) who listens now will find for him a flaming fire waiting.

labil-mir'ṣādi
(Word Translations: 1)
- (is) surely Ever Watchful
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 89:14 Indeed, your Lord (is) surely Ever Watchful.

mir'ṣādan
(Word Translations: 1)
- lying in wait
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 78:21 Indeed, Hell is lying in wait,

marṣadin
(Word Translations: 1)
- place of ambush
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 9:5 Then when have passed the months sacred, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and seize them and besiege them and sit (in wait) for them (at) every place of ambush. But if they repent and establish the prayer and give the zakah then leave their way. Indeed, Allah (is) Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

wa-ir'ṣādan
(Word Translations: 1)
- and (as) a station
  - (Concordance entries: 1)
  - 9:107 And those who take a masjid (for causing) harm and (for) disbelief, and (for) division among the believers, and (as) a station for whoever warred (against) Allah and His Messenger from before. And surely they will swear, "Not we wish except the good." But Allah bears witness indeed, they (are) surely liars.

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