What Does Yawm (يَوْم) Mean in the Quran?
A simple noun root, day, the span of time.
Counted from the Uthmani text bundled with this site: the singular yawm, including al-yawm, its attached pronouns, and the fused form yawma'idhin. The dual yawmayn and plural ayyam are different written forms and are not included.
Inside the Quran
Yawm anchors the Quran's constant turning of your attention to time, and above all to one Day: Yawm ad-Din, the Day of Judgement, named already in al-Fatiha, and Yawm al-Qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection.
The fused form yawma'idhin, on that Day, opens many of the most vivid passages of the short surahs you will learn first, so it is included in the count below.
“Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.”
“Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full] compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained [his desire]. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.”
“It is the Day when a soul will not possess for another soul [power to do] a thing; and the command, that Day, is [entirely] with Allāh.”
Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.
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