Quranic root
فوز
f · w · z
The root centers on emerging with safety or a desired gain: attaining good, succeeding, and escaping harm. Classical Arabic also preserves an opposed branch involving perishing or destruction.
The meanings develop from escape and survival toward winning, acquiring, and attaining good, with nouns for success, salvation, and a place of escape. A contrary classical branch uses فَوَّزَ for perishing or dying, while مَفَازَة can also denote a perilous desert, apparently through euphemistic naming or association with escape.
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
فَازَ
fāza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To attain or gain good, a desired outcome, reward, or success; to succeed or win.
The Quranic form expresses attainment of a desired or beneficial result, including a wished-for worldly outcome and a successful final result.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:73word 16
“then I would have attained”
Quran 33:71word 12
“has attained”
To escape evil or punishment and reach safety or salvation.
This is the deliverance sense, especially when success is understood as being removed from harm and brought into safety.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:185word 17
“he is successful”
فَائِز
fāʾiz
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
One who attains good with safety; a successful or saved person.
The Quranic plural refers to people who attain the desired good outcome and are delivered from loss or punishment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:20word 16
“(are) the successful”
Quran 23:111word 8
“(are) the successful ones”
Quran 59:20word 10
“(are) the achievers”
فَوْز
fawz
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 19 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Attainment of good together with safety; success, favorable outcome, or salvation.
The Quran applies the term both to attaining a desired worldly benefit and to final deliverance and reward. The surrounding context determines whether the emphasis is on achievement, safety, or salvation.
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Selected Quran examples
مَفَاز
mafāz
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Success or a place or condition in which success is attained.
In the Quranic expression إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا, the noun is explained either as success itself or as a place of success, with the following description specifying the reward.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 78:31word 3
“(is) success”
مَفَازَة
mafāzah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A place or state of safety, escape, or salvation; deliverance from danger or punishment.
In 39:61 it denotes the place or condition of salvation. In 3:188, the expression بِمَفَازَةٍ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ is also explained as escape or freedom from punishment, treating the form as a verbal-noun expression rather than requiring a literal place.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:188word 15
“(will) escape”
Quran 39:61word 5
“to their place of salvation”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:185فَازَ ۗhe is successful
- 3:188بِمَفَازَةٍۢ(will) escape
- 4:13ٱلْفَوْزُ(is) the success
- 4:73فَأَفُوزَthen I would have attained
- 4:73فَوْزًاa success
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 12 Classical meanings
فَازَ
In the game of maysir, for an arrow to come forth before its fellows and thereby win.
A specialized usage concerning the drawing and precedence of arrows in the game of chance.
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فَازَ
To perish or die.
This is a contrary classical use preserved alongside the meanings of escaping and succeeding.
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فَازَ
To enter the state of temporary safety between the present life and the life to come.
An alternative classical explanation associated with the verb's death-related usage.
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فَوَّزَ
To enter, traverse, or travel through a desert; to go from one land or country to another.
Used with a desert or with travel across lands; the construction may describe entering upon a desert with one's camels.
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فَوَّزَ
To become apparent, said of a road.
A specialized usage concerning the visibility or discernibility of a route.
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فَوَّزَ
To stop or come to an end, said of a road.
A separate road-related usage from the sense of becoming apparent.
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أَفَازَ
To cause someone to attain, acquire, gain, or win something.
A causative Form IV construction with the attained object expressed after بِـ.
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فَازَة
A tent or shelter of the type called مِظَلَّة, supported by two poles or an extended pole.
A concrete nominal usage distinct from the root's success and escape meanings.
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فَائِزَة
A thing that brings joy and by which one attains good or a desired object.
Used of a pleasing or advantageous thing that produces attainment or benefit.
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مَفَازَة
A cause or means of prosperity, success, or attainment of what one desires; a means of entering a good state.
A figurative nominal use, comparable to مَفْلَحَةٌ, and distinct from the literal place-of-safety sense.
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مَفَازَة
The state of temporary safety between the present life and the life to come.
A figurative or doctrinal specialization connected with the intermediate-state explanation of فَازَ.
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مَفَازَة
A desert or place of peril and destruction, especially a waterless waste where watering places are far apart.
The term can refer to a waterless tract requiring prolonged travel between watering places. Its naming is explained either as optimistic reference to safety or through the contrary sense of perishing.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
فَازَ has a classical contrary branch meaning “to perish” or “to die”; that branch is kept separate from the Quranic success and deliverance senses.
مَفَازَة in 3:188 supports both a place/state-of-safety interpretation and a verbal-noun interpretation meaning escape from punishment. The cited Quran locations here follow the independently supplied QAC locations.
The desert meaning of مَفَازَة is Classical Arabic usage and is not assigned to the Quranic occurrences.