What Does Kadhalika (كَذَٰلِكَ) Mean in the Quran?
This page studies كَذَٰلِكَ 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
كَذَٰلِكَ (kadhalika) means thus, in this way, likewise. It connects an example or action with the way Allah (SWT) explains, creates, or brings about another matter.
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.
“Indeed, We thus reward the doers of good.”
“Thus do We deal with the criminals.”
“Thus. And We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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