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What Does Alladhi (الَّذِي) Mean in the Quran?

الَّذِي
alladhi
the one who, that which
Word type
relative pronoun

This page studies الَّذِي as the written form shown in the mushaf. Attached letters and related inflections are studied separately so the examples stay precise.

In the Quran
268 times

Counted from Barakah’s bundled word-by-word Quran data for this exact written form after vowel marks are removed. Forms with attached letters or pronouns may have their own separate count.

Inside the Quran

الَّذِي (alladhi) means the one who, that which. It introduces a description of one masculine person or thing.

Read it inside the complete ayat below. The surrounding words decide the most natural English rendering, so the translation may use more than one English phrase for the same Arabic form.

See it in real ayat
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who created and proportioned

ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ

Which had weighed upon your back

ٱلَّذِى كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

Who had denied and turned away.

Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.

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