There are 283 instances of nazala and its related forms in the Quran in different grammatical forms as shown in the table below are discussed to better understand their meaning in different contexts:
Note: The above table is populated with data obtained from www.corpus.quran.com
Details of instances of anzala
Out of 183, 137 instances of anzala in 118 verses across 23 surahs are already reviewed, and 46 instances of anzala in 44 verses across 15 surahs in the Quran are detailed out here:
[27:60] Who has created the heavens and the earth, and has sent down water from the sky for you (wa-anzala lakum mina al-samaai maa-an)? Then we have made to grow gardens full of beauty with it, it has not been that you could grow their trees. Is there any god with God? Nay, they are a people to deviate (from the truth).
[28:24] So he (Moses) had watered (their sheep) for them (two women), then he had turned back to the shade, then said, “My Lord, indeed me, of whatever You have sent down to me is good in need (rabbi innee limaa anzalta ilay’ya min khayrun faqeerun).”
[28:87] Do not avert you (Muhammad) from any of verses of God after when it has been sent down to you (Muhammad) (wa-laa-yasuddunnaka `an aayaati allahi ba`da idh unzilat ilayka), and you shall invite to your Lord. And do not be with idol worshipers.
[29:46] You do not argue with a people of the scripture except that which is best, except those who have wronged from them, and you shall say, “We have believed in which has been sent down to us (aamannaa bi-alladhee unzila ilaynaa) and what has been sent down to you (wa-unzila ilaykum); and our god and your god is One and to Him we are Submitters.”
[29:47] And thus that we have sent down the scripture to you (Muhammad) (wa-ka’dhaalika anzalnaa ilayka al -kitaaba), so those whom we have given them the scripture believe in it. And of these there are whoever believe in it. And none deny in our verses except the disbelievers.
[29:50] And they said, “Why has not been sent down miracles to him (Muhammad) from his Lord (lawlaa unzila `alayhi aayaatun min rabbihi)?” Say, “The miracles are only with God, and I am only a clear warner.”
[29:51] And does it not suffice them that we have sent down to you (Muhammad) the scripture, is recited to them (a-wa-lam yakfihim annaa anzalnaa `alayka al-kitaaba yut’laa `alayhim)? Indeed, in that there is surely a mercy and a reminder for a people to believe.
[30:35] Or have we sent down to them an authority (aw anzalnaa `alayhim sul’taanan) that it speaks of what they have done to associate with Him?
[31:10] He has created the heavens without pillars you see them and has placed mountains in the earth lest it might tremble with you, and He has spread in it of every creature. And we have sent down water from the sky (wa-anzalnaa mina al-samaai maa-an) that we have made to grow every beautiful kind.
[31:21] And when it has been said to them, “You shall follow what God has sent down (ittabi`uu maa anzala allahu),” they said, “Nay, we follow what we have found our forefathers on it.” And if had it been the Satan to call them to a punishment of the Blazing fire?
[33:26] And He had brought down those who had backed them from a people of the scripture from their fortresses (wa-anzala alladheena zaaharuhum min ahli al-kitaabi min sayaaseehim) and had cast terror into their hearts – a group you killed, while a group you took captive.
[34:6] And those who have been given the knowledge see which has been sent down to you (Muhammad) from your Lord (alladhee unzila ilayka min rabbika); it is the truth and it guides to a path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.
[35:27] Do you not see that God has sent down water from the sky (a-lam tara anna allaha anzala mina al-samaai maa-an), then we have brought forth with it different fruits in their colors? And of the mountains there are tracts of different colors – white, and red, and raven black.
[36:15] They said, “You (messengers) are not but human beings like us, and the Gracious has not sent down anything (wa-maa anzala al-rahmaanu min shayin). You are not but you are lying.”
[36:28] And we have not sent down upon his people after him any soldier from the heaven (wa-maa anzalnaa `alaa qawmihi min ba`dihi jundin mina al-samaai), and we have been a Sender.
[38:8] “Has the reminder been sent down to him from among ourselves (a-unzila `alayhi al-dhik’ru min baynanaa)?” Nay, they are in doubt of My reminder. Nay, they have not yet tasted My punishment.
[38:29] A scripture we have sent down it to you (Muhammad) is a blessed one (kitaabun anzalnaahu ilayka mubaarakun) that they study its verses and that it may remind possessors of the understanding.
[39:2] Indeed, we have sent down to you (Muhammad) the scripture with the truth (innaa anzalnaa ilayka al-kitaaba bil-haqqi); so you shall worship God being sincere to Him in the religion.
[39:6] He has created you from a single soul, then He has made its mate from it. And He has sent down for you eight kinds of the livestock (wa-anzala lakum mina an’`aami thamaaniyata az’wajin). He creates you in wombs of your mothers – creation after creation in darknesses of trimesters. That is God your Lord, to Him belongs the dominion. There is no god except He. Then how are you turned away?
[39:21] Do you not see that God has sent down water from the sky (a-lam tara anna allaha anzala mina al-samaai maa-an), then He has made it flow as springs in the earth; then He produces with it crops of different colors; then it withers that you see it turning yellow; then He makes it debris? Indeed, in that there is surely a reminder for possessors of the understanding.
[39:41] Indeed, we have sent down to you (Muhammad) the scripture for the people with the truth (innaa anzalnaa `alayka al-kitaaba lilnnasi bil-haqqi). So, whoever has guided, then is for his soul, and whoever has gone astray, then he only goes astray against it (soul). And you (Muhammad) are not of an advocate upon them.
[39:55] And you shall follow (your) best what has been sent to you from your Lord (wa-ittabi`uu ahsana maa unzila ilaykum min rabbikum) before that the punishment comes to you all on a sudden, while you do not perceive.
[41:14] When the messengers had come to them before themselves and after themselves said, “You do not worship except God.” They said, “If our Lord had willed, surely, He would have sent down angels (law shaa-a rabbunaa la’anzala malaaikatan). So, indeed, we are disbelievers in what you have been sent with it.”
[41:39] And of His signs that you see the barren land, then when we have sent down the water upon it (fa-idhaa anzalnaa `alayhaa al-maa-an), it has vibrated with life and has grown. Indeed, the One who has given life is surely the Giver of life to the dead. Indeed, He has power over everything.
[42:15] So for that, then you (Muhammad) shall invite and shall stand as what you have been commanded, and do not follow their desires and say, “I have believed in what God has sent down from a scripture (aamantu bimaa anzala allahu min kitaabin) and I have been commanded to establish justice between yourselves. God is our Lord and your Lord, and to us is our deeds and to you is your deeds. There is no argument between ourselves and between yourselves. God will gather between ourselves and to Him is the final return.”
[42:17] God is the One who has sent down the scripture with the truth and the balance (allahu alladhee anzala al-kitaaba bil-haqqi wal-meezaana), and which makes you know that the Hour is near.
[44:3] Indeed, we have sent down it in a night of blessing (innaa anzalnaahu fee laylatin mubaarakatin). Indeed, we have been warners.
[45:5] And the alternation of the night and the day, and what God has sent down from the sky of provision (wa-maa anzala allahu mina al-samaai min riz’qin) that He has given life to the earth with it after its death, and directing of the winds are signs for a people to reflect.
[46:30] They said, “O our people (jinns), we have heard a scripture has been sent down after Moses (yaaqawmanaa innaa sami`naa kitaaban anzala min ba`di muusaa) confirming that which was before of it to guide to the truth and to a straight path.”
[47:9] That is of that they have hated what God has sent down (dhaalika bi-annahum karihuu maa anzala allahu), so, He has made worthless their deeds.
[47:20] And say those who have believed, “Why has not been sent down a surah (on fighting)?” Then when an explicit surah has been sent down (fa-idhaa unzilat suuratun muh’kamatun) and the fighting has been mentioned in it, you have seen those whom in their hearts there are disease are looking at you (Muhammad) – a look of the fainted one upon him from the death, so is nearer to them.
[48:4] He is the One who has sent down the tranquility into hearts of the believers (huwa alladhee anzala al-sakeenata fee quluubi al-mu’mineena) that they may increase faith with their faith. And to God belongs soldiers of the heavens and the earth, and God has been Knower, Wise.
[48:18] Certainly, God has been pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you (Muhammad) under the tree. So He had known what was in their hearts that He had sent down the tranquility upon them (fa-anzala al-sakeenata `alayhim) and had rewarded them with near victory.
[48:26] When those who had disbelieved had placed the contempt in their hearts – a contempt of days of the ignorance, then God had sent down His tranquility upon His messenger and upon the believers (fa-anzala allahu sakeenatahu `alaa rasuulihi wa-`alaa al-mu’mineena), and had made them adhere to a word of the righteousness, and they have been deserving of it and worthy of it. And God has done being Knower of everything.
[53:23] These (Allat, Aluzzah and Manat) are not but names you have named them, you and your forefathers; God has not sent down any authority with them (maa anzala allahu bihaa min sul’taanin). They (idol worshipers) do not follow except the conjecture and what the souls desire. And certainly, the guidance has become to them from their Lord.
[56:69] Are you who have sent down it (rain) from the clouds (a-antum anzaltumuuhu mina al-muz’ni), or we are the senders?
[57:25] And certainly, we have sent our messengers with the clear proofs, and we have sent down with them the scripture and the balance that it may establish the people with the justice (wa-anzalnaa ma`ahumu al-kitaaba wal-meezaana li’yaquuma al-naasu bil-qisti). And we have sent down the iron (wa-anzalnaa al-hadeeda feehi basun shadeedun wa-manaafi`u lilnnaasi), there is strength in it and benefits for the people. And that God may make known whoever helps Him and His messengers in the unseen. Indeed, God is Powerful, Almighty.
[58:5] Indeed, those who oppose God and His messenger will be disgraced like that those who have been disgraced before themselves. And certainly, we have sent down the clear verses (wa-qad anzalnaa aayaatin bayyanaatin), and for the disbelievers there is a humiliating punishment.
[59:21] If we had sent down this – the Quran to a mountain (law anzalnaa haadhaa al-qur’aana `alaa jabalin), surely, you would have seen it humbled being crumbled from fear of God. And that is of the examples we have presented it for the people that they may reflect.
[64:8] So, you shall believe in God and His messenger, and the light which we have sent down (to him) (wal-nuuri alladhee anzalnaa). And God is Cognizant of whatever you do.
[65:5] That is God’s command He has sent down to you (dhaalika amru allahi anzalnaa `alaykum), and whoever fears God, He will remove his evil deeds from him and will make a great reward for him.
[65:10] God has prepared a severe punishment for them. So, you shall fear God, O possessors of the understanding those who have believed. Certainly, God has sent down to you a message (qad anzala allahu ilaykum dhik’ran)
[78:14] And we have sent down abundant water from the clouds (wa-anzalnaa mina al-mu`siraati maa-an thajjaajan).
[97:1] Indeed, we have sent down it in a Night of the Power (innaa anzalnaahu fee laylati al-qadri).
In brief, details from 46 instances of anzala in 44 verses in the Quran across 27 surahs confirm that God has not sent down any miracle to Muhammad like what He had sent down to Moses and Jesus or any other prophets or messengers, but what has been sent down to him is a mercy and a reminder for a people to believe, which guides to the truth and to a straight path, and makes know the Hour is near. When said to them to follow what God has sent down, the disbelievers said they follow what they have found their forefathers on it. But those who have been given knowledge recognize that what God has sent down is the truth and it guides to a path of the Almighty, Praiseworthy, and that they study it so that it may remind possessors of the understanding. He has sent down the scripture with the truth to the people, then whoever has guided is guided for himself but whoever has gone astray is gone astray for himself. Prophet was commanded to stand with what had been sent down to him to establish the justice between the people with it. He has sent down the scripture with the truth and the balance to establish justice between the people, while He has also let us know that if He had sent down the Quran to a mountain, you would have seen it would be humbled being crumbled for fear of God.
God has sent down the clarified scripture in a night of blessing calling it a Night of the Power, is a message, a messenger with light, and whoever fears God, He will remove from them their evil deeds and will make for them a great reward but whoever opposes it there is a humiliating punishment for them. However, those who have the opportunity to review 183 instances of anzala in 162 verses across 50 surahs can confirm that what God has sent down is the truth and the balance to guide the believers to a path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy to practice His religion based on His words to remember and please Him dedicating praises and prayers to Him alone when His religion has been hijacked by the ignorant scholars and their puppets advocating it through innovations and falsehood, rejecting His sent down words making difficult to find a Masjid to establish Friday congregation prayer.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (07/21/2023).