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Instances of kabeer
There are 40 instances of kabeer (كَبِير) in the nominal: noun and adjective form in the Quran literally meaning “great”, found in 40 verses of 22 surahs in the Quran to better understand its meaning knowing that an Arabic word may have different meanings in different contexts to reflect the appropriate message:
Noun
[2:282] O you who have believed, when you have contracted one another of any debt for a fixed period, then you shall write it and a scribe shall write between of you with the justice. And a scribe should not refuse that he writes like that God has taught him. So, he shall write and the one on whom is the right shall dictate. And he shall fear God, his Lord and will not diminish anything from it. Then if the one on him is the right of a limited knowledge, or weak, or he is not able to dictate, then his guardian shall dictate with the justice, and shall call for two witnesses from your men, then if there are not two men, then one man and two women you agree of the witnesses that she errs of the two, the other one of the two will remind. And the witnesses should not refuse when that they have been called. And do not be weary that you write it whether lesser or greater for its term (sagheeran aw kabeeran ilaa ajalihi). That is more just with God and straighter for the evidence and nearer that you do not have doubt except that a transaction be present, you carry out among yourselves, then it has not been any sin upon you that you do not write. And you shall have witness when you have made an commercial transaction. A scribe should not be harmed, nor a witness, and if you do, then indeed, it is a sinful conduct for you, and you shall fear God. And God teaches you and God is Knower of everything.
[12:80] Then when they had despaired of him (Yusuf’s brother), they had engaged in discussion. Their eldest said (qaala kabeeruhim), “Do you not know that your father certainly had taken a pledge from you by God, and from before what you had failed about Yusuf? So, I will not leave the land until my father permits for me, or God decides for me, and He is the best Judge.
[17:87] (revealing Quran to you is not) Except a mercy from your Lord. Indeed, His blessing has been great upon you (prophet) (inna fadlahu `alayka kabeeran).
[20:71] He (Pharaoh) said, “You have believed to him before that I give permission to you. Indeed, he is surely your chief (innahu la’kabeerukumu), the one who has taught you the magic. So, surely, I will cut off your hands and your feet from alternate sides, and surely, I will crucify you on trunks of the date-palms, and surely, you will know which of us is more severe in punishment, and more lasting.”
[21:58] So, he (Abraham) had made them into pieces, except for a greater one of them (illaa kabeeran lahum), that they may return to it.
[21:63] He (Abraham) said, “Nay, someone has done it. This is their chief (kabeeruhum haadhaa). So, ask them, if they have been to speak.”
[26:49] He (Pharaoh) said, “You have believed to him before that I give permission to you. Indeed, he is surely your chief (innahu la’kabeerukumu), the one who has taught you the magic. So, surely, you will know. Surely, I will cut off your hands and your feet from alternate sides, and surely, I will crucify you all.”
[54:53] Every lesser and greater is written down (kullu sagheeran wa-kabeerin mus’tatarun) .
Adjective
[2:217] They ask you (prophet) about the Sacred Month whether there is fighting in it. Say, “Fighting in it is a great sin (qitaalun feehi kabeerun), but hindering from a path of God, and disbelief in Him and the Sacred Masjid, and driving out its people from it is a greater sin near God. And the oppression is a greater crime than the killing.” They will not cease to fight you until they can turn you away from your religion, if they have been able. And whoever turns away among you from his religion, then he dies, while he is a disbeliever, then for those, has become worthless their deeds in the world and the Hereafter, and those are companions of the Fire, they will be dwellers in it (forever).
[2:219] They ask you (prophet) about the intoxicant and the game of chance whether there are sin in them. Say, “In both of them there is a great sin (feehimaa ith’mun kabeerun), while there are benefits for the people. But sin from both of them is greater than benefits from both of them.” They ask you (prophet) what they should spend (from their provision). Say, “The excess.” Thus that God makes clear the revelations for you that you may think.
[4:2] You shall give the orphans their wealth, and do not exchange the bad with the good, nor do you consume their wealth towards your wealth. Indeed, it has been a great sin (innahu kaana huuban kabeeran).
[4:34] The men are supporters of the women for what God has bestowed of them over other and for what they have spent from their wealth. So, the righteous women are obedient (to God) in the unseen as protectors of that which God has protected (for them). And those (wives) from whom you (husbands) have feared their rebellion, then you shall advise them, and shall desert them in the bed, and shall disregard them. But if they have obeyed you, then you do not seek a way against them. Indeed, God has been a great High (inna allaha kaana `aliyyan kabeeran).
[8:73] And those who have disbelieved are allies of them to other. Unless you do it, there would be oppression in the earth and a great corruption (wa-fasaadun kabeerun).
[11:3] And that you shall seek forgiveness of your Lord, then shall repent to Him, He will let you enjoy good for an appointed term and will give His grace to every possessor of grace. And if you turn away, then indeed, I fear for you a punishment of a great Day (akhaafu `alaykum `adhaaba yawmin kabeerin).”
[11:11] Except those who have been patient and have done the righteous deeds, those for them is forgiveness and a great reward (ulaaika lahum maghfiratun wa-ajrun kabeeran) .
[12:78] They said, “O you the honorable; indeed, he has a very old father (inna lahu aban shaykhan kabeeran); so take one of us in his place. Indeed, we see you of the good-doers.”
[13:9] Knower of the unseen and the seen, the greatest High (`aalimu al-ghaybi wal-shahaadati al-kabeeru al-muta`aali).
[17:4] And we have decreed to Children of Israel in the scripture that you will make corruption twice in the earth, and that you will reach an extreme arrogance (wa-la’talunna `uluwwan kabeeran).
[17:9] Indeed, this – the Quran guides to that which is exact straight and gives a good news to the believers those who do the righteous deeds that for them there is a great reward (an lahum aj’ran kabeeran).
[17:31] And you do not kill your (unborn) children in fear of poverty. We provide for them and indeed for you. Indeed, killing of them has been a great sin (inna qatlahum kaana khit’an kabeeran).
[17:43] Glory is His and He has exalted a great High above what they say (wa-ta`aalaa ammaa yaquuluuna `uluwwan kabeeran).
[17:60] And when we said to you (prophet), indeed, your Lord has encompassed of the mankind, and we have not made the vision which we have showed you was a test for the mankind, and the tree of the accursed in the Quran. We threaten them, but it does not increase them except a great transgression (famaa yazeeduhum illaa tugh’yaanan kabeeran).
[22:62] That is of that God – He is the Truth, and that what they invoke other than Him – it is the falsehood. And that God – He is the greatest High (wa-an allaha huwa al-`aliyyu al-kabeeru) .
[25:19] Certainly, they have denied you in what you say, so, you do not be able to prevent aversion, nor do you be any help. Whoever does wrong from you, we will make him taste a great punishment (nudhiq’hu `adhaaban kabeeran).
[25:21] And said those who do not expect meeting of us, “Why have not been sent down the angels to us, or we see our Lord?” Indeed, they have become arrogant within themselves and have become insolent with a great insolence (wa-`ataw `uluwwan kabeeran).
[25:52] So, not to obey the disbelievers, and you shall strive against them a great striving with it (wa-jaahid’hum bihi jihaadan kabeeran).
[28:23] And when he (Moses) had reached a water of Madyan, he found on it a group of people were watering, and found two women were waiting keeping back besides them. He said, “What is a matter with you?” They said, “We cannot water until the shepherds pull back, and our father is a very old man (wa-abuunaa shaykhun kabeeran).”
[31:30] That is of that God, He is the Truth, and that what they call other than Him is the falsehood, and that God is the greatest High (wa-anna allaha huwa al-aliyyu al-kabeeru).
[33:47] And you (prophet) shall give a good news to the believers with that for them there is a great blessing from God (bi-anna lahum min allahi fadlan kabeeran).
[33:68] “Our Lord, give them a double of the punishment, and curse them a great curse (wal-`anhum la`nan kabeeran).”
[34:23] And the intercession with Him will not benefit except for whom He has permitted for him. Until when fear has been removed from their hearts, they would have said, “What is that what your Lord has said?” they would have said, “The truth.” And He is the greatest High (wa-huwa al-`aliyyu al-kabeeru).
[35:7] Those who have disbelieved, for them there is severe punishment, and those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds, for them there is forgiveness and a great reward (lahum maghfiratun wa-aj’run kabeerun).
[35:32] Then we have made to inherit the scripture to those whom we have chosen from our servants; then among them there has been a wrongdoer for his soul, and among them there has been a moderate one, and among them there has been a foremost one in the good deeds by permission of God – that, it is the greatest blessing (dhaalika huwa al-fadlu al-kabeeru).
[40:12] That is of that when it had been invoked God Alone, you disbelieved, but if it were associated with Him, you believed. So, the judgment is with God, the greatest High (fal-huk’mu lillahi `aliyyu al-kabeeru) .
[42:22] You will see the wrongdoers are fearful of what they had earned, and it will befall on them. And those who had believed and had done the righteous deeds will be in flower glooming meadows of the Gardens, for them is whatever they wish with their Lord. That, it is the greatest blessing (dhaalika huwa al-fadlu al-kabeeru).
[57:7] You shall believe in God and His messenger, and shall spend from what He has made you trustees in it. So, those who have believed among you and have spent, for them there is a great reward (lahum aj’run kabeerun).
[67:9] They said, “Yes; certainly, there had come to us a warner, but we had denied, and we said that God has not sent down anything. You are not except in a faraway straying (antum illaa fee dalaalin kabeerin).”
[67:12] Indeed, those who fear their Lord in the unseen, for them there is forgiveness and a great reward (lahum maghfiratun wa-aj’run kabeerun).
[76:20] And when you had looked, then you have seen blessing and a great kingdom (thumma raa-ayta na`eem wa-mul’kan kabeeran).
[85:11] Indeed, those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds, for them there will be Gardens flowing the rivers of their underneath. That is the greatest success (dhaalika al-fawzu al-kabeeru).
Instance of takbeer
Here is details of 1 instance of takbeer (تَكْبِير) in the noun form in the Quran meaning “magnificence” found in the following verse of the Quran:
[17:111] And say: “All praise to God, the One who does not have a son, nor would there be a partner for Him in the dominion, nor would there be a protector for Him out of weakness, and glorify Him with all glorification (wa-kabbir’hu tak’beeran).
Instances of mutakabbir
Here are details of 7 instances of mutakabbir (مُتَكَبِّر) in the active participle noun and adjective form in the Quran meaning “arrogant” found in 7 verses of 4 surahs to understand their meanings in different contexts:
Noun
[16:29] So, enter to gates of Hell being dwellers in it, so has surely been wretched is an abode of the arrogant (fa-la’bi’sa math’waa al-mutakabbireena).
[39:60] And a day of the Resurrection you will see those who had lied about God, their faces are blackened. Has not it been in Hell an abode for the arrogant (a-laysa fee jahannama math’wan lil’mutakabbireena)?
[39:72] It had been said, “Enter to gates of Hell being dwellers in it,” so has been wretched is an abode of the arrogant (fa-bi’sa math’waa al-mutakabbireena).
[40:27] And Moses said, “Indeed me, I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord, from every arrogant who does not believe in a Day of the Reckoning (min kulli mutakabbirin laa-yu’minu bi-yawmi al-hisaabi).”
[40:35] Those who dispute in God’s revelations having no authority has come to them, that has been great hatred near God and near those who have believed. Thus that God places a seal on heart of every tyrant arrogant (kadhaalika yatba`u `alaa kulli qalbi mutakabbirin jabbaarin).
[40:76] Enter to gates of Hell being dwellers in it, so has been wretched is an abode of the arrogant (fa-bi’sa math’waa al-mutakabbireena).
Adjective
[59:23] He is God: the One – there is no god except He, the King, the Sacred, the Peace, the Faithful, the Guardian, the Almighty, the Powerful, the Supreme (al-mutakabbiru). Glory to God far above of what they associate.
Instances of is’tikbaar
Here are details of 2 instances of is’tikbaar (ٱسْتِكْبَار) in the noun form in the Quran meaning “arrogance” found in the following verses of the Quran to better understand their meaning:
[35:43] There were arrogance in the earth (is’tik’baaran fee al-ardi) and the evil plotting, while the evil plot does not encompass except of its own people. Do then they wait except a way of the former? So, you will not find any change in God’s system, nor will you find any alternation in God’s system.
[71:7] And indeed me (Noah), every time I have invited them that You may forgive them, they have placed their fingers in their ears, and have covered themselves with their clothes, and have been persistent and arrogant with arrogance (wa-asarruu wa-is’takbaruu is’tik’baaran).
Instances of mus’takbir
Here are details of 6 instances of mus’takbir (مُسْتَكْبِر) in the active participle form in the Quran meaning “arrogant” found in 6 verses of 5 surahs in the Quran to better understand their meanings in different contexts:
[16:22] Your god is One god. Then those who do not believe in the Hereafter, their hearts are rejectors (of it) and they are arrogant (wa-hum mus’takbiruuna).
[16:23] There is no doubt that God knows what they conceal and what they declare. Indeed, He does not love the arrogant ones (innahu laa-yuhibbu al-mus’takbireena).
[23:67] Being arrogant with it (mus’takbireena bihi), you speak evil by night.
[31:7] And when is recited our revelations to him, he has turned away being arrogant (wallaa mus’takbiran) as if he never heard them, as if there is deafness in his ears. So, give him a news of a painful punishment.
[45:8] He (a sinful liar) hears God’s revelations, is recited to him, then he persists on being arrogant (thumma yusirru mus’takbiran) as if he never heard them. So, give him a news of a painful punishment.
[63:5] And when it has been said, “Come, messenger of God will ask forgiveness for you,” they have turned aside their heads, and you have seen them to turn away, while they are arrogant (wa-huwa mus’takbiruuna).
The review of the above 56 verses in the Quran highlights that flighting in the Sacred month is a great sin but hindering from a path of God disbelieving in Him and the Sacred Masjid is a greater sin, while the intoxicant and the game of chance is a great sin as well. It has been mercy and a great blessing upon the prophet from God that the Quran has been revealed to him, which is an exact straight path for the believers to give them a good news of a great reward. In it God has made clear that the wealth of the orphans cannot be consumed nor can it be exchanged the bad with the good, while He has ordered the couples to follow the steps for reconciliation when there are disputes between them. God is the Truth and the greatest High, and what the disbelievers call other Him is falsehood, while if it were associated with Him they have believed. When a warner had come to them to invite them that there is forgiveness and a great reward from God, they had denied him. When is recited God’s revelations to them, they have turned away being arrogant as if they never heard of them, as if there is deafness in their ears and the arrogant ones also disbelieve and reject when it is said to them that your god is One god, and there is a painful punishment for them, and it will be told them to enter the Hell being dwellers in it, so has been wretched is an abode of the arrogant. They will claim that they have followed their leaders and learned who had misled them and will ask God to give them a double punishment and to curse them a great curse. On the other hand, those who have believed in God and His revelations, and have done the righteous deeds for them there is forgiveness and great reward, while God has promised them to overlook their lesser offences as they had not committed any greater sins, even every lesser and greater sin has been written down in a record.
Glory to God Who is the greatest High, the One – there is no god except He, the King, the Sacred, the Peace, the Faithful, the Guardian, the Almighty, the Powerful, the Supreme far above of what the disbelievers and the arrogant ones associate with Him may protect us not to be among them that we may be invited to enter Gardens of the bliss when the final judgment will take place.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (03/28/2025).