# Elif-Mim-Lam — امل (Aml)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** hoped for it, expect, distant or remote expectation, clinging of the heart to the coming to pass of a future desired event, affection of the heart for some good to be attained, in respect of hope
- **Derived forms:** أَمَل (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 3

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَمَلُ ۖ — l-amalu · "the hope"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْاَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Tharhum ya/kuloo wayatamattaAAoowayulhihimu al-amalu fasawfa yaAAlamoon

Leave thou them to eat and enjoy themselves while hope diverts them; and they will come to know.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-3.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 46

- **Form in this verse:** أَمَلًۭا — amalan · "(for) hope"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اَلْمَالُ وَالْبَنُونَ ز۪ينَةُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاۚ وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ الصَّالِحَاتُ خَيْرٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَاباً وَخَيْرٌ اَمَلاً

Almalu walbanoona zeenatu alhayatiaddunya walbaqiyatu assalihatukhayrun AAinda rabbika thawaban wakhayrun amala

Wealth and sons are an adornment of the life of this world; but the righteous deeds which endure are better as reward in the sight of thy Lord, and better as hope.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-46.md_

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