What Does Idh (إِذْ) Mean in the Quran?
This page studies إِذْ as the written form shown in the mushaf. Attached letters and related inflections are studied separately so the examples stay precise.
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
إِذْ (idh) means when, remember when. It commonly recalls a past event and invites the reader to remember its lesson.
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.
“And [by] the night when it departs.”
“When the most wretched of them was sent forth.”
“When they were sitting near it.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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