What Does Yasha (يَشَاءُ) Mean in the Quran?
This page studies يَشَاءُ 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
يَشَاءُ (yasha) means he wills. It speaks of willing or choosing. Its subject must be read from the surrounding words.
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 you do not will except that Allāh wills - Lord of the worlds.”
“In the victory of Allāh. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.”
“He punishes whom He wills and has mercy upon whom He wills, and to Him you will be returned.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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