What Does Alladhina (الَّذِينَ) Mean in the Quran?
Alladhina is a relative pronoun, not a root-derived noun. It is the plural of alladhi, the one who.
Counted from the Uthmani text bundled with this site: alladhina in all its attached forms, including wa-lladhina, fa-lladhina, bi-lladhina, and lilladhina.
Inside the Quran
The Quran constantly addresses people by what they do: alladhina amanu, those who believe, alladhina kafaru, those who disbelieve, alladhina ya'maluna s-salihat, those who do righteous deeds. This one word opens all of those phrases.
It is among the most frequent words in the whole Quran, so recognising it instantly makes long ayat feel much shorter, it tells you a description of a group is coming.
“And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.”
“The believers are only those who, when Allāh is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely -”
“Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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