# Elif-Mim-Dal — امد (Amd)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/Amd

- **Meaning:** time considered in regard to its end, utmost/extreme/extent/term, limits, limited, remainder
- **Derived forms:** أَمَد (4)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 30

- **Form in this verse:** أَمَدًۢا — amadan · "(was) a distance"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

يَوْمَ تَجِدُ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا عَمِلَتْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مُحْضَراًۚۛ وَمَا عَمِلَتْ مِنْ سُٓوءٍۚۛ تَوَدُّ لَوْ اَنَّ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَهُٓ اَمَداً بَع۪يداًۜ وَيُحَذِّرُكُمُ اللّٰهُ نَفْسَهُۜ وَاللّٰهُ رَؤُ۫فٌ بِالْعِبَادِ۟

Yawma tajidu kullu nafsin ma AAamilatmin khayrin muhdaran wama AAamilat min soo-intawaddu law anna baynaha wabaynahu amadan baAAeedan wayuhaththirukumuAllahu nafsahu wallahu raoofun bilAAibad

“The day every soul will find what it did of good summoned, and what it did of evil, it will wish there were between it and that a great distance.” And God warns you of Himself; and God is kind to the servants.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-30.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** أَمَدًۭا — amadan · "(in) time"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ اَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ اَحْصٰى لِمَا لَبِثُٓوا اَمَداً۟

Thumma baAAathnahum linaAAlama ayyualhizbayni ahsa lima labithoo amada

Then raised We them up, that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate what they had tarried in time.)

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-12.md_

### 57. Surah Al-Hadid, Verse 16

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَمَدُ — l-amadu · "the term"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

اَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُٓوا اَنْ تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّۙ وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذ۪ينَ اُو۫تُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْاَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْۜ وَكَث۪يرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ

Alam ya/ni lillatheena amanooan takhshaAAa quloobuhum lithikri Allahi wamanazala mina alhaqqi wala yakoonoo kallatheenaootoo alkitaba min qablu fatala AAalayhimu al-amadufaqasat quloobuhum wakatheerun minhum fasiqoon

Has not the time come for those who heed warning that their hearts should be humbled to the remembrance of God, and what has come down of the truth, and that they be not as those given the Writ before? And the span seemed long to them, so their hearts hardened; and many of them are perfidious.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hadid/verse-16.md_

### 72. Surah Al-Jinn, Verse 25

- **Form in this verse:** أَمَدًا — amadan · "a (distant) term"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قُلْ اِنْ اَدْر۪ٓي اَقَر۪يبٌ مَا تُوعَدُونَ اَمْ يَجْعَلُ لَهُ رَبّ۪ٓي اَمَداً

Qul in adree aqareebun ma tooAAadoonaam yajAAalu lahu rabbee amada

Say thou: “I know not whether that which you are promised is near, or my Lord will make for it a span.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-jinn/verse-25.md_

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