Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 39
ان يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَضِلُّوا in لک comes to any one of you (63:11); (2) It is a contraction of أنَّ and occurs after a verb denoting certainty: عَلِمَ أَنْ سَيَكُوْنُ مِنْكُمْ مَّرْضى : He knows there will be some among you who will be sick (73:21); (3) It is an explicative meaning فَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْهِ أَنِ اصْنَعِ أَيْ الْفُلْكَ : And We revealed to him saying, make thou the ark (23:28); (4) It is redundant as a corroborative and occurs mostly after فَلَمَّا أَنْ جَاءَ الْبَشِيْرُ لَمَّا : And when the bearer of good news came (12:97) (5) it has a conditional meaning like إِنْ in أَنْ تَضِلَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا : If one of the two forget (2:283); (6) It is a negative like 7) إِنْ( syn. with إِذْ as in بَلْ عَجِبُوا أَنْ جَاءَ هُمْ مُنْذِرٌ : They wonder because a Warner has come to them (50:3); (8) syn. with as : God explains to you lest you go astray )4:177(; )9( it occurs in the sense of الَّذِى as in the saying زَيْدٌ أَعْقَلُ مِنْ أَنْ يَكْذِبَ : Zaid is more reasonable than he who lies. The sentence also means: Zaid is too intelligent to lie. Briefly it means, if; though; even though and so on. إن is used in various ways: (1) First as a conditional particle denoting the happening of the second of two events in consequence of the happening of the first whether the second be immediate or deferred and whether the condition be affirmative or negative. إِنْ تَعُوْدُوْا نَعُدْ : If you return (to hostility), we shall also return (8:20); (2) it is a negative syn. with مَا as in إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلَّا الْحُسْنَى : We intended not but what is good (9:107). See also 67:21; 86:5; 10:69; 72:26; 35:42; )3( It is a contraction of إِنَّ as in إِنْ كُلًّا لَمَّا لَيُوَفِّيَنَّهُمْ رَبُّكَ أَعْمَالَهُمْ : Surely thy Lord will certainly repay them in full (11:112). See also 43:36; 20:64; 2:144; 17:77; 26:187; (4) it is redundant occurring with 5) : مَا( it is syn. with قَدْ as in إِنْ نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرى : Surely reminding is profitable (87:10); (6) Some say it is syn. with اِذْ meaning "because" as in وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُّؤْمِنِينَ : And fear Allah because you are true believers )5:58( لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ امِنِيْنَ : You shall certainly enter the Sacred Mosque in security because Allah has willed it (48:28); (7) It is syn. sometimes with إِذَا as in إِن َاسْتَحَبُّوا الْكُفْرَ عَلَى الْإِيْمَانِ : Ifor when they prefer disbelief to belief (9:23) and 33:58); (8) it is used for إما. So briefly اِنْ means if not; verily. because; when أَنَّ is 39 ان