تَوْفِيق guidance in Arabic
تَوْفِيق is how you say “guidance” in Arabic.
Root و ف ق w-f-q. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar of Form II). tawfīq.
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Meaning of guidance in Arabic
- divine guidance, success granted by God From وَفَّقَهُ اللّٰه — God directing someone to a right course or to what is good.
- a legal document, a pleading A distinct technical/legal usage recorded separately by Lane.
Example sentence
فمَن رجع إلى الله بتوفيقه فإنما رجع بها،
Whoever returns to Allah by His guidance, only truly returns through them.
بِتَوْفِيقِهِ by His guidance
bi- = 'by, with'; tawfiq means 'divine enabling, success'; the ending '-hi' adds 'His' — 'by His enabling'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Tawfīq is the verbal noun of Form II وَفَّقَ, most often used of God enabling or directing a person to the right course — hence its common gloss 'guidance' in the sense of divinely granted success, rather than instruction.
Words from the same root
- وَفَّقَ to grant success, guide rightly
- وَافَقَ to agree with, correspond, match
- اِتَّفَقَ to happen; to be in agreement
- إِتِّفَاقِىٌّ casual, coincidental
Common questions
- How do you say "guidance" in Arabic?
- تَوْفِيق (tawfīq) — especially in the sense of success or right direction granted by God.
- What is the root of تَوْفِيق and what does it mean?
- The root is و ف ق (w-f-q), carrying the sense of agreeing, suiting, or being in accord.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).