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Out of 72 instances of faraq and its derived forms, 32 instances are detailed out below to better understand their meaning in different contexts:
- Details of Instances of faraq in verb form I meaning to divide
[2:50] And when we had parted the sea for you that we saved you (wa-idhaa faraqnaa bi-kumu al-bahra fa-anjaynaakum), and we had drowned a people of Pharaoh while you watch.
[5:25] He (Moses) said, “My Lord, indeed, I do not possess power except for myself and my brother. So, separate between ourselves and between the disobedient people (fa-uf’ruq baynanaa wa-bayna al-qawmi al-faasiquuna).”
[9:56] They swear by God that they are surely with you, while they are not with you; but they are a people who do not fear (God) (wa-laakinnahum qawmun yafraquuna).
[17:106] And Quran we have divided it (wa-qur’aanan faraqnaahu) that you (prophet) can read it to the people over a period of time; and we have sent down it a gradual sending down.
[44:4] In it (a blessed night), every wise matter is made distinct (feehaa yuf’raqu kullu amrin hakeemin)
- Details of instances of farraqu in verb form II meaning to make distinction
[2:102] And they followed what the devils had recited over a kingdom of Solomon, and Solomon had not disbelieved, but the devils had disbelieved. They taught the people the magic, and what had been sent down through the two angels in Babylon, Harut and Marut. They did not teach anyone unless they say, “we are only a test, so do not disbelieve.” So, they learned from these two that they cause separation between the man and his spouse with it (maa yufarriquuna bihi bayna al-mari wa-zawjihi). But they could not be of harmful ones to anyone with it except by permission of God. And they learned what harms them and does not profit them. And that certainly, they had known that whoever has bought it, there is no share for him in the Hereafter. And that it has been evil for themselves what they have sold with it, if they had done to know.
[2:136] Say, “We have believed in God, and what has been sent down to us, and what has been sent down to Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob and the Patriarchs; and what has been given to Moses and Jesus, and what has been given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not make distinction between anyone of them (laa-nufarriqu bayna ahadin minhum). And we are Submitters to Him.”
[2:285] The messenger has believed in what has been sent down to him from his Lord and the believers. Everyone has believed in God, and His angels, and His scriptures, and His messengers: “We do not make distinction between anyone of His messengers” (laa-nufarriqu bayna ahadin min rusulihi), and they said, “We have heard and we have obeyed, grant us Your forgiveness our Lord, and to You is the return.”
[3:84] Say, “We have believed in God, and what has been sent down to us, and what has been sent down to Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and what has been given to Moses, and Jesus, and the prophets from their Lord. We do not make distinction between anyone of them (laa-nufarriqu bayna ahadin minhum), and we are Submitters to Him.”
[4:150] Indeed, those who disbelieve in God and His messengers, and they wish that they make distinction between God and His messengers (wa-yureeduuna an yattakhidhuu bayna dhaalika sabeelan), and they say, “We believe in one and disbelieve in other.” And they wish that they accept a path between that.
[4:152] And those who have believed in God and His messengers, and they do not make distinction between anyone of them (wa-lam yufarriquu bayna ahadin minhum), those – He will give them their rewards. And God has been Forgiving, Merciful.
[6:159] Indeed, those who have divided their religion and have made sects (inna alladheena farraquu deenahum wa-kaanuu shiya`an), you have not been with them in anything. Their matter is only with God, then He will inform them of what they have done to commit.
[20:94] He (Aaron) said, “O son of my mother; do not grab by my beard nor my head. Indeed, I have feared that you would say, `You have caused division between the Children of Israel (farraqta bayna banee is’raa-eela), and you do not respect my order.’”
[30:32] Of those who have divided their religion and have made sects (mina alladheena farraquu deenahum wa-kaanuu shiya`an), each party is in rejoicing with what they have.
- Details of instance of faariqu in verb form III meaning to part
[65:2] So when they have reached their term, then you shall retain them with fairness or you shall release them with fairness (aw faariquhunna bi-ma`ruufin). You shall have witness of two just men among you and shall establish the testimony for God. That is directed with it for whoever has committed to believe in God and the Last Day, and whoever fears God, He will make an exit for him.
- Details of instances of tafarraqa in verb form V meaning to be divided
[3:103] And you shall hold fast to a rope of God all together, and you do not be divided (wa-i`tasimuu bi-habli allahi Jami`an wa-laa-tafarraquu). And you shall remember a favor of God upon you when you had been enemies, then He has made friendship between your hearts, then you have become brothers by His favor. And you had been on a brink of pit of the Fire, then He has saved you from it. Thus that God makes clear His revelations for you, that you may be guided.
[3:105] And you do not be like those who have become divided (wa-laa-takuunuu ka-alladheena tafarraquu) and have differed after what has come to them the clear proofs. And those – for them there is a great punishment.
[4:130] And if they (couple) get separated (wa-in yatafarraqaa), God will enrich each from His abundance, and God has been Encompassing, Wise.
[6:153] And that this is My path, is straight, so you shall follow it, and you do not follow the other paths that these separate you from His path (wa-laa-tattabi`u al-subula fa-tafarraqa bikum `an sabeelihi). That He has enjoined you with it that you may fear.
[30:14] And a day establishes the Hour, that day they will get separated (yawma-idhin yatafarraquuna) (from their partners).
[42:13] He has decreed for you of the religion what He had enjoined Noah of it, and which we have inspired to you (Muhammad), and what we had enjoined Abraham of it, and Moses, and Jesus. That you shall establish the religion and do not be divided in it (wa-laa-tatafarraquu feehi). It has been extreme on the idol worshipers what you (Muhammad) call them to it. God chooses to Himself whomever He wills and He guides to Himself whoever turns.
[42:14] And they had not become divided (wa-maa tafarraquu) except after what had come to them the knowledge out of opposition between of them. And if it had not preceded a promise of your Lord for a specified term, surely, it would had been settled between of them. And indeed, those who have been made to inherit the scripture after of them, surely are in doubt of it as disquieters.
[98:4] And those who have been given the scripture had not divided (wa-maa tafarraqa alladheena uutuu al-kitaaba) after what has come to them of the clear proof.
- Details of instance of fir’q in noun form meaning part
[26:63] Then we had inspired to Moses that you shall strike the sea with your staff, so it had parted that each part had become like the great mountain (fa-kaana kullu fir’qin ka-al-tawdi al-`azeemi).
- Details of instance of farq in noun form meaning criterion
[77:4] And (the angels) those who record good and evil (fal-faariqaati farqan).
- Details of instances of fur’qaan in noun form meaning statute book
[2:53] And when we had given Moses the scripture and the statute book that you may be guided (al-kitaaba wal-furqaana la`allakum tahtaduuna).
[2:185] Ramadan which is a month has been sent down in it the Quran as a guidance for mankind and clear proofs of the guidance and the statute book (al-qur`aanu hudan lilnnaasi wa-bayyinaatin minal al-hudaa wal-furqaani). So, whoever has witnessed the month from you, then he shall fast in it and whoever has been sick or on a journey, then a specified number from other days. God does intend the ease for you and He does not intend the hardship for you, and that you may complete the specified number; and that you may glorify God through which He has guided you, and that you may appreciate.
[3:4] Before of (it) there was a guidance for the people, and He had sent down the statute book (min qablu hudan lilnnasi wa-anzala al-furqaana). Indeed, those who have disbelieved in God’s revelations, for them there is a severe punishment, and God is Almighty, Possessor of retribution.
[8:29] O you who have believed, if you fear God, He will grant you wisdom (in tattaquu allaha yaj’al la’kum furqaanan) and will remove your evil deeds from you and will forgive for you. And God is Possessor of the great bounty.
[8:41] And you shall know that what you have obtained war spoils from anything, then that one-fifth of it belongs to God and to the messenger, and to the near relatives and the orphans and the poor and the traveling alien, if you have believed in God and in what we have sent down to our servant about a day of the Decision (wa-maa anzalnaa `alaa `abdinaa yawma al-furqaani), a day has met the two parties. And God has power over everything.
[21:48] And that certainly, we had given Moses and Aaron the statute book, and a light, and a reminder for the righteous (al-furqaana wa-diyaa-an wa-dhik’ran lil’muttaqeena).
[25:1] Blessed is the One who has sent down the statute book to His servant (tabaaraka alladhee nazzala al-fur’qaana `alaa `abdihi) that he may be a warner for the people of the world.
The core messages from reviewing 32 instances of faraq and its derived forms found in 32 verses of 18 surahs in the Quran are God has repeatedly reminded the believers not to be divided their religion into sects, but to hold fast to a rope of God all together, and also not to make any distinction between any of His messengers and prophets. He has decreed the religion for us what He had enjoined Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus as well as what He had inspired to Muhammad to establish it not to be divided in it, which is the straight path to Him, while He has given us the Quran as a guidance, a clear proof of the guidance and the statute book that we may glorify Him through which He has guided us so that we may appreciate Him.
Now we may see the present picture of God given religion all over the world and realize that what we should believe and practice to stay in the straight path to Him that we are not deprived of our reward in the Hereafter when we will meet Him.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (04/03/2026).