| Order | Occurrence | Arabic | Without diacritics | Pronunciation | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al-Baqarah Verse 155 (2:155:9) | وَالْاَنْفُسِ | والانفس | vel-enfusi | and [the] lives | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings(159) to those who patiently persevere,* | |||||
| 2 | Ali 'Imran Verse 154 (3:154:15) | اَنْفُسُهُمْ | انفسهم | enfusuhum | (about) themselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | After (the excitement) of the distress, He sent down calm on a band of you overcome with slumber,(465) while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own feelings, Moved by wrong suspicions of Allah.suspicions due to ignorance. They said: "What affair is this of ours?"(466) Say thou: "Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah.s." They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to thee. They say (to themselves): "If we had had anything to do with this affair, We should not have been in the slaughter here." Say: "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death"; but (all this was)(467) that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. For Allah knoweth well the secrets of your hearts.* | |||||
| 3 | Ali 'Imran Verse 186 (3:186:4) | وَاَنْفُسِكُمْ | وانفسكم | ve enfusikum | and yourselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Ye shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your personal selves;(493) and ye shall certainly Hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye persevere patiently, and guard against evil,-then that will be a determining factor in all affairs.* | |||||
| 4 | An-Nisa Verse 29 (4:29:19) | اَنْفُسَكُمْۜ | انفسكم | enfusekum | yourselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | O ye who believe!(541) Eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: But let there be amongst you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful!* | |||||
| 5 | An-Nisa Verse 97 (4:97:3) | تَوَفّٰيهُمُ | توفيهم | teveffâhumu | take them (in death) | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | When angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls,(615) they say: "In what (plight) Were ye?" They reply: "Weak and oppressed Were we in the earth." They say: "Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you to move yourselves away (From evil)?" Such men will find their abode in Hell,- What an evil refuge! -* | |||||
| 6 | Al-Ma'idah Verse 70 (5:70:15) | اَنْفُسُهُمْۙ | انفسهم | enfusuhum | their souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | We took the covenant of the Children of Israel and sent them messengers, every time, there came to them a messenger with what they themselves desired not - some (of these) they called impostors, and some they (go so far as to) slay.(780)* | |||||
| 7 | Al-An'am Verse 93 (6:93:34) | اَنْفُسَكُمْۜ | انفسكم | enfusekum(u) | your souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Who can be more wicked than one who inventeth a lie against Allah, or saith, "I have received inspiration," when he hath received none, or (again) who saith, "I can reveal the like of what Allah hath revealed"? If thou couldst but see how the wicked (do fare) in the flood of confusion at death! - the angels stretch forth their hands, (saying),"Yield up your souls:(915) this day shall ye receive your reward,- a penalty of shame, for that ye used to tell lies against Allah, and scornfully to reject of His signs!"* | |||||
| 8 | Al-A'raf Verse 37 (7:37:20) | يَتَوَفَّوْنَهُمْۙ | يتوفونهم | yeteveffevnehum | (to) take them in death | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Who is more unjust than one who invents a lie against Allah or rejects His Signs? For such, their portion(1018) appointed must reach them from the Book (of decrees): until, when our messengers (of death) arrive and take their souls, they say: "Where are the things that ye used to invoke besides Allah." They will reply, "They have left us in the lurch," And they will bear witness against themselves, that they had rejected Allah.* | |||||
| 9 | Al-Anfal Verse 50 (8:50:0) | يَتَوَفَّى | يتوفى | yeteveffâ | take away souls | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | If thou couldst see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at death),(1219) (How) they smite their faces and their backs, (saying): "Taste the penalty of the blazing Fire-* | |||||
| 10 | At-Tawbah Verse 41 (9:41:0) | وَاَنْفُسِكُمْ | وانفسكم | ve enfusikum | and your lives | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Go ye forth, (whether equipped)(1306) lightly or heavily, and strive and struggle, with your goods and your persons, in the cause of Allah. That is best for you, if ye (but) knew.* | |||||
| 11 | At-Tawbah Verse 55 (9:55:0) | اَنْفُسُهُمْ | انفسهم | enfusuhum | their souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Let not their wealth nor their (following in) sons(1315) dazzle thee: in reality Allah.s plan is to punish them with these things in this life,(1316) and that their souls may perish in their (very) denial of Allah.* | |||||
| 12 | At-Tawbah Verse 85 (9:85:0) | اَنْفُسُهُمْ | انفسهم | enfusuhum | their souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Nor let their wealth nor their (following in) sons dazzle thee: Allah.s plan is to punish them with these things in this world, and that their souls may perish in their (very) denial of Allah.(1338)* | |||||
| 13 | At-Tawbah Verse 111 (9:111:0) | اَنْفُسَهُمْ | انفسهم | enfusehum | their lives | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise):(1361) they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur´an:(1362) and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah. then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.* | |||||
| 14 | At-Tawbah Verse 120 (9:120:0) | بِاَنْفُسِهِمْ | بانفسهم | bi-enfusihim | their lives | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah.s Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury(1371) whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-* | |||||
| 15 | An-Nahl Verse 28 (16:28:2) | تَتَوَفّٰيهُمُ | تتوفيهم | teteveffâhumu | take them in death | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | "(Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of wrong-doing to their own souls."(2051) Then would they offer submission (with the pretence), "We did(2052) no evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply), "Nay, but verily Allah knoweth all that ye did;* | |||||
| 16 | An-Nahl Verse 32 (16:32:2) | تَتَوَفّٰيهُمُ | تتوفيهم | teteveffâhumu | take them in death | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | (Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state(2055) of purity, saying (to them), "Peace be on you; enter ye the Garden, because of (the good) which ye did (in the world)."* | |||||
| 17 | Al-Anbiya Verse 102 (21:102:8) | اَنْفُسُهُمْ | انفسهم | enfusuhum | their souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Not the slightest sound will they hear of Hell: what their souls desired, in that will they dwell. | |||||
| 18 | Fussilat Verse 31 (41:31:12) | اَنْفُسُكُمْ | انفسكم | enfusukum | your souls | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | "We are your protectors(4500) in this life and in the Hereafter: therein shall ye have all that your souls(4501) shall desire; therein shall ye have all that ye ask for!-* | |||||
| 19 | Muhammad Verse 27 (47:27:3) | تَوَفَّتْهُمُ | توفتهم | teveffethumu | take them in death | و ف ي |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | But how (will it be)(4851) when the angels take their souls at death, and smite their faces(4852) and their backs?* | |||||
| 20 | Adh-Dhariyat Verse 21 (51:21:2) | اَنْفُسِكُمْۜ | انفسكم | enfusikum | yourselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | As also in your own(5002) selves: Will ye not then see?* | |||||
| 21 | At-Tur Verse 22 (52:22:5) | يَشْتَهُونَ | يشتهون | yeştehûn(e) | they desire | ش ه و |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And We shall bestow on them, of fruit and meat,(5056) anything they shall desire.* | |||||
| 22 | Al-Waqi'ah Verse 21 (56:21:4) | يَشْتَهُونَۜ | يشتهون | yeştehûn(e) | they desire | ش ه و |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And the flesh of fowls, any that they may desire. | |||||
| 23 | Al-Hadid Verse 14 (57:14:9) | اَنْفُسَكُمْ | انفسكم | enfusekum | yourselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | (Those without) will call out, "Were we not with you?"(5292) (The others) will reply, "True! but ye led yourselves into temptation; ye looked forward (to our ruin); ye doubted ((Allah)´s Promise); and (your false) desires deceived you; until there issued the Command of Allah. And the Deceiver deceived you in respect of Allah.(5293)* | |||||
| 24 | Al-Hadid Verse 22 (57:22:9) | اَنْفُسِكُمْ | انفسكم | enfusikum | yourselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls(5308) but is recorded in a decree before We bring(5309) it into existence: That is truly easy for Allah.* | |||||
| 25 | Al-Hashr Verse 19 (59:19:7) | اَنْفُسَهُمْۜ | انفسهم | enfusehum | themselves | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And be ye not like those who forgot Allah;(5396) and He made them forget their own souls! Such are the rebellious transgressors!* | |||||
| 26 | As-Saff Verse 11 (61:11:9) | وَاَنْفُسِكُمْۜ | وانفسكم | ve enfusikum | and your lives | ن ف س |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew!(5444)* | |||||