What Does Sabil (سَبِيل) Mean in the Quran?
This page studies سَبِيل 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
سَبِيل (sabil) means way, path, cause. It can be a physical road or a moral path, especially the way of Allah (SWT).
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 thus do We detail the verses, and [thus] the way of the criminals will become evident.”
“Those who disbelieve and avert [people] from the way of Allāh - He will waste their deeds.”
“And he who believed said, "O my people, follow me; I will guide you to the way of right conduct.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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