Quranic root
وفق
w · f · q
The root denotes the fitting together, correspondence, or compatibility of two things.
From mutual fit and correspondence, the lexicon develops meanings of agreement, adaptation toward a suitable or right outcome, success in a good course, and concurrence or occurrence. The Quran-focused use of تَوْفِيق is conventionally associated with good and success rather than evil.
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
وَفَّقَ
waffaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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.
To bring about agreement or reconciliation; to cause parties to come into accord.
A transitive Form II construction for effecting harmony or reconciliation between parties or things.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:35word 15
“will cause reconciliation”
تَوْفِيق
tawfīq
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Divine enabling or success in pursuing what is good and right.
In established Quranic usage, تَوْفِيق is associated with good rather than evil and may denote success or enabling attributed to God.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:88word 29
“(is) my success”
The bringing about of agreement or reconciliation.
In the Quranic occurrence concerning an intended good aim, the noun denotes reconciliation or accord.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:62word 16
“and reconciliation”
وِفَاق
wifāq
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun used adjectivally
- 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.
Corresponding, fitting, or commensurate; in particular, a recompense that accords with what it answers to.
In the Quranic expression جَزَاءً وِفَاقًا, the form describes the recompense as corresponding or appropriate.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 78:26word 2
“appropriate”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:35يُوَفِّقِwill cause reconciliation
- 4:62وَتَوْفِيقًاand reconciliation
- 11:88تَوْفِيقِىٓ(is) my success
- 78:26وِفَاقًاappropriate
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 11 Classical meanings
وَفِقَ
To be right, agreeable, or in accord with what is wished or desired.
Used of an affair or case that proves suitable or satisfactory in relation to a desired outcome.
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وَفَّقَ
To adapt, accommodate, or direct an affair or a person toward a fitting object or a right course; to prosper it.
The construction may take an affair as its object or dispose a person to a thing, a right course, or prosperity.
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وَافَقَ
To conform to, coincide with, suit, or match someone or something; to be suitable or convenient.
The correspondence may be between things, actions, or an outcome and what it answers to.
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وَافَقَ
To agree, consent, comply, or be of one mind with someone about an affair.
A conventional interpersonal construction for agreement or compliance concerning a matter.
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وَافَقَ
To encounter someone or come upon something.
A distinct encounter use, equivalent to meeting or finding someone or something.
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أَوْفَقَ
To find an affair agreeable to one's wish or desire.
Used with an affair or case judged agreeable in relation to the subject's desire.
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اِتَّفَقَ
To happen, occur, or chance; to befall someone as good or evil.
The occurrence may be described as the concurrence of an event with circumstances, including a good or bad thing happening to someone.
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تَوْفِيق
A legal document, specifically a pleading.
A technical legal use distinct from the Quranic senses of enabling, success, and reconciliation.
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إِتِّفَاقِيّ
Casual or incidental.
An adjectival use describing what is not deliberately arranged or fixed.
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وِفْق
Correspondence or matching between two things.
A nominal form for mutual conformity, distinct in form from وِفَاق.
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تِيفاق / مِيفاق
The time at which an occurrence coincides, attested for the time of the moon's appearing.
A temporal expression identifying the time when the moon's rising occurs.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
وِفَاق is tagged as an adjective in the QAC occurrence while its supplied derivational classification identifies it as a verbal noun; it is therefore presented as a verbal noun used adjectivally.