138 instances of Arabic words in the Quran from the same root, which have made simple and straightforward for us to reflect to establish the religion given by God classified in 5 different grammatical forms, are reviewed as highlighted in the table below to interpret appropriate message in different contexts:
Note: The above table is populated with data obtained from the corpus.quran.com.
Here are 54 instances of aqaama meaning to establish in the verb IV form found in 53 verses across 28 surahs in the Quran are reviewed below to confirm their meanings in different contexts, while we know that the Arabic word may have different meanings in the different contexts:
[2:3] Those who believe in the unseen and establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuuna al-salata), and spend from what we have provided them.
[2:43] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat, and shall bow down with the bowers.
[2:83] And when we had taken a covenant of Children of Israel: “You do not worship except God, and with the parents being good, and with the relatives and the orphans and the needy; and you shall speak good to the people, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat .” Then you have turned away, except a few from you, and you are averse.
[2:110] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat. And whatever of good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with God, indeed, God is Seer of what you do.
[2:177] It has not been the righteousness that you turn your faces towards the east and the west, but the righteousness has been to whoever has believed in God, and the Last Day, and the angels, and the scripture, and the prophets; and has given the wealth with love to the relatives, and the orphans, and the needy, and the traveling alien, and the beggars, and in freeing the necks (slaves); and has established the salat prayer (wa-aqaama al-salata) and has given the zakat; and those who are keepers of their promise when they have made it, and those who are patient during the suffering and the hardship, and when there has been the stress. Those are the ones who have been truthful and those – they are the righteous.
[2:229] (God has permitted) the divorce two times (when a couple may return to each other). Then it is either retaining in a reasonable manner or releasing with an amicable manner. And it is not lawful for you (husbands) that you will take back anything whatever you have given them (wives) except that they (both) fear that they (both) cannot maintain (yuqeemaa) God’s limits. So if you have feared that they (both) cannot maintain (yuqeemaa) God’s limits, then there is no sin on both of them in what she has ransomed with it. That is of God’s limits, so you do not transgress them. And whoever transgresses God’s limits, then those – they are the wrongdoers.
[2:230] So if he divorces her (third time), then she is not lawful for him after, until she marries a spouse other than him. Then if he divorces her, then there is no sin upon both of them that they return to each other if they have believed that they would maintain (yuqeemaa) God’s limits. And that is of God’s limits; He makes it clear for a people who know.
[2:277] Those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have given the zakat, for them is their reward with their Lord; there is no fear upon them, nor will they grieve.
[4:77] Have you not seen to those? It has been said to them, “You shall refrain your hands, and you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat.” So when it has been decreed the fighting upon them, then a group from them fear the people as they fear God, or a greater fear, and they said, “Our Lord, why have You decreed the fighting upon us? Why you have not postponed for us to a near term.” Say, “An enjoyment of the world is little, while the Hereafter is far better for whoever has feared (God), and you will not be wronged even like a hair on a date seed.”
[4:102] And when you (prophet) have been with them, then you have established the salat prayer for them (fa-aqamta lahum al-salata), then let stand a group from them with you and let them take of their arms. Then when you have prostrated, then let them be of their behind; and let come another group, which has not prayed, then let them pray with you and let them take of their precautions and their arms. Those who have disbelieved have wished if you neglect of your arms and your baggage, then they can assault upon you in a single attack, while there is no blame upon you if it has been a trouble with you from rain or you have been sick that you lay down your arms and you shall take your precautions. Indeed, God has prepared a shameful punishment for the disbelievers.
[4:103] Thus, when you have completed the salat prayer, then you shall remember God being standing, and sitting, and being on your sides. So when you have been secure, then you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata); indeed, the salat prayer has been a decree on the believers at specified times.
[5:12] And certainly, God has taken a covenant of Children of Israel, and we have raised twelve patriarchs from them. And God said, “Indeed, I am with you, surely if you have established the salat prayer (aqamtumu al-salata) and have given the zakat, and have believed in My messengers and have honored them, and have loaned a good loan to God. Surely, I will remove your evil deeds from you, and surely, I will admit you into gardens flowing the rivers of their underneath. So whoever has disbelieved from you after that, then certainly, he has strayed from the right path.”
[5:55] Your ally is God and His messenger, and those who have believed, and those who establish the salat prayer (yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and they – the bowers.
[5:66] And if that they had maintained the Torah and the Gospel (aqaamuu al-tawraata wal-injeela), and what has been sent down to them from their Lord, surely, they would have eaten from their above and from beneath of their feet. There is a community of moderate ones from them, while many of them have been evil for what they do.
[5:68] Say, “O people of the scripture, you have not been on anything unless you maintain the Torah and the Gospel (tuqeemuu al-tawraata wal-injeela), and what has been sent down to you from your Lord.” And surely, it increases rebellion and disbelief to many of them for what has been revealed to you (Muhammad) from your Lord. So, you do not grieve over the disbelieving people.
[6:72] “And that you shall establish the salat prayer (aqeemuu al-salata) and shall fear Him, and He is the One to Him you will be gathered.”
[7:29] Say, “My Lord has commanded with the justice; and you shall devote yourself (wa-aqeemuu wujuuhakum) at every masjid and shall call Him being sincere to Him in the religion. As that He has initiated you to return.”
[7:170] Those who hold fast to the scripture, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata); indeed, we will not let go waste a reward of the reformers.
[8:3] Those who establish the salat prayer (yuqeemuuna al-salata) and spend from what we have provided them.
[9:5] So when has passed the sacred months, then you shall kill the idol worshipers wherever you have found them, and shall seize them, and shall besiege them, and shall ambush for them at every place of ambush. But if they have repented and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have given the zakat, then you shall leave their way. Indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful.
[9:11] But if they have repented and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have given the zakat, then are your brethren in the religion. And we explain the revelations for a people who know.
[9:18] Only he maintains God’s masjids whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and has established the salat prayer (wa-aqaama al-salata) and has given the zakat, and does not fear except God. Then it may have been those that they would be among the guided ones.
[9:71] The believing men and the believing women – one of them are allies to other. They enjoin to the right and forbid from the evil, and establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and obey God and His messenger. Those – God will have mercy on them; indeed, God is Almighty, Wise.
[10:87] And we had inspired to Moses and his brother that you shall settle houses for your people in Egypt, and shall make your houses as places of worship, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and shall give good news to the believers.
[10:105] And that you (Muhammad) shall establish yourself (aqim wajhaka) to the religion of monotheism, and do not be among the idol worshipers.
[11:114] And you (Muhammad) shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqimi al-salata) at both ends of the day and the first part of the night. Indeed, the good deeds remove the evil deeds. That is a reminder for those who take heed.
[13:22] And those who have been patient seeking their Lord’s pleasure, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata), and have spent in secret and public from what we have provided them, and repel the evil with the good – those, for them is an achievement of the Home.
[14:31] Say to My servants of those who have believed to establish the salat prayer (yuqeemuu al-salata) and to spend in secret and public from what we have provided them before that a day comes – there is no trade in it, nor is there any friendship.
[14:37] “Our Lord, indeed, I (Abraham) have settled part of my family in a valley not suitable for cultivation near Your House, the Sacred House. Our Lord, that they may establish the salat prayer (liyuqeemuu al-salata). So make hearts of the people to incline towards them, and provide them with the fruits that they may appreciate.
[17:78] You (Muhammad) shall establish the salat prayer (aqimi al-salata) at declining of the sun towards darkness of the night, and Quran at the dawn; indeed, Quran at the dawn has been a witnessed.
[18:77] So they had proceeded until when they reached people of a town; they had asked food from its people, but they refused to offer them. Then they had found a wall in it about to collapse. So he had made it straight (fa-aqaamahu). He said, “If you had wished, surely, you could have taken a wage for it.”
[18:105] Those are the ones who have disbelieved in their Lord’s revelations and His meeting. So, it has been vain of their deeds that we will not grant (fa-laa-nuqeemu) for them any weight on a day of the Resurrection.
[20:14] Indeed Me; I am God – there is no god except I. So you (Musa) shall worship Me, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqimi al-salata) for My remembrance.”
[22:41] Those who – if we had established them in the earth, they would have established the salat prayer (aqaamuu al-salata) and would have given the zakat, and would have enjoined with the right, and would have forbidden from the evil. And to God is an end of all matters.
[22:78] And you shall strive in God of His true striving. He has chosen you and has made no difficulty upon you in the religion – a religion of your father Abraham. He has named you the Submitters before and in this, that the messenger would be a witness over you, and you would be a witnesses over the people. So you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat, and shall hold fast to God. He is your Protector that He has been the excellent Protector and has been the excellent Supporter.
[24:56] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and shall give the zakat, and shall obey the messenger that you are given mercy.
[27:3] Those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata), and give the zakat, and they are with regard to the Hereafter they ascertain.
[29:45] You (Muhammad) shall recite what has been revealed to you of the scripture, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqimi al salata); indeed, the salat prayer prevents from the evil behavior and the evil deeds, while surely, remembering God is the greatest. And God knows what you (all) do.
[30:30] So you shall establish yourself (fa-aqim wajhaka) to the religion of monotheism, an instinct of God, which on it He has created mankind. There is no change of God’s creation. That is the established religion, but most of the people do not know.
[30:31] Being turned to Him, while you shall fear Him, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and do not be with the idol worshipers.
[30:43] So you shall establish yourself (fa-aqim wajhaka) to the established religion, before that a day comes there is no reversion of it from God. That day, they will become separated.
[31:4] Those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata), and give the zakat, and they are with regard to the Hereafter they ascertain.
[31:17] “O my son, you shall establish the salat prayer (aqimi al-salata), and shall enjoin with the right, and shall forbid from the evil, and shall be patient over what has befallen you. Indeed, that is of the determining matters.
[33:33] And you (prophet’s wives) shall stay in your homes, and do not display as displaying of the older days of the ignorance. And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqim’na al-salata), and shall give the zakat, and shall obey God and His messenger. God only wishes to remove the impurity from you, a people of the House as well as to purify you a perfect purification.
[35:18] No bearer of burden will bear burden of another. And if a heavily loaded soul calls to her load, nothing will be carried from it, even if he has been a near kin. You can only warn those who fear their Lord in the unseen, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata). And whoever has purified himself, then he only purifies for himself. And to God is the destination.
[35:29] Indeed, those who recite God’s scripture, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata), and have spent in secret and public from what we have provided them hope for a commerce, which will never perish.
[42:13] He has decreed for you of the religion what He had enjoined Noah with it, and which we have inspired to you (Muhammad), and what we had enjoined Abraham, Moses, and Jesus with it, that you shall establish the religion (an aqeemuu al-deena), and do not divide in it. It has been difficult on the idol worshipers what you call them to it; God chooses to Himself whomever He wills and guides to Himself whomever turns (to Him).
[42:38] And those who have responded to their Lord, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata), and their affairs are consultation between themselves, and they spend from what we have provided them.
[55:9] And you shall establish the weight (wa-aqeemuu al-wazna) with the justice, and do not make deficient the balance.
[58:13] Have you been afraid that you can offer a charity before your consultation? Then when you do not do, while God has forgiven you. So you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata), and shall give the zakat, and shall obey God and His messenger. And God is Cognizant of what you do.
[65:2] So when they have reached their term, then you shall retain them with the fairness or you shall separate them with the fairness; and you shall take witness of two just men from you and shall establish the testimony for God (wa-aqeemuu al-shafaadata lillahi). That is admonished with it for whoever has been to believe in God and the Last Day; and whoever fears God, He will make an exit for him.
[73:20] Indeed, your (Muhammad) Lord knows that you may awake less than two-thirds of the night, and half of it, and one-third of it, and a group of those who are with yourself. And God has designed the night and the day. He has known that you may not keep up it. So, He has turned to you that you shall read what has been easy from the Quran. He has known that there may be sick among you and others may travel in the land seeking for God’s bounty, and others may fight in God’s path. So, you shall read what has been easy from it, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and shall give the zakat, and shall loan God a good loan. And whatever of good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with God. It will be better and greater reward. And you shall ask forgiveness of God; indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful.
[98:5] And they (the people of the scripture) have not been commanded except to worship God being sincere to Him in the religion as monotheists, and to establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuu al-salata), and to give the zakat, and that is the established religion.
The review of instances of aqaama in the Quran can make it simple and straightforward for us to reflect that we are born with God given religion of monotheism and what we need to do to establish His religion is hold fast to the scripture and to read it almost every night as much as we can to have knowledge of what to believe and practice, maintain God’s masjids to establish the salat prayer, establish the salat prayer as scheduled by God, give the zakat, spend from what He has provided us, and loan Him a good loan to find it with Him being aware of the Hereafter and knowing that no soul will bear burden of another soul on a day of the Resurrection, even they may be related. The review is also an opportunity to reflect that the so-called Muslim community all over the world practice innovated religions instead of the religion we are born with advocated by the corrupted scholars based on the alleged hadith and sunnah disregarding the warning to the Jews and Christians that they have not been on anything unless they have established the Torah and the Gospel. It has also made clear divorce and remarrying ex-wives to avoid misconceptions and illegitimate practices we see around us.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (10/28/2022).