# Dal-Vav-Lam — دول (dwl)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be in continual rotation, change, undergo vicissitudes.
- **Derived forms:** دُولَة (1) · نُدَاوِلُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 140

- **Form in this verse:** نُدَاوِلُهَا — nudāwiluhā · "We alternate them"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of mufa'ale · 1st person, plural · present tense

اِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ الْقَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِثْلُهُۜ وَتِلْكَ الْاَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِۚ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَٓاءَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِم۪ينَۙ

In yamsaskum qarhun faqad massaalqawma qarhun mithluhu watilka al-ayyamu nudawiluhabayna annasi waliyaAAlama Allahu allatheenaamanoo wayattakhitha minkum shuhadaa wallahula yuhibbu aththalimeen

If injury touches you: there has touched people an injury the like thereof. And those are the days We alternate among men, both that God might know those who heed warning, and take witnesses among you — and God loves not the wrongdoers —

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-140.md_

### 59. Surah Al-Hashr, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** دُولَةًۢ — dūlatan · "a (perpetual) circulation"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · accusative case · indefinite

مَٓا اَفَٓاءَ اللّٰهُ عَلٰى رَسُولِه۪ مِنْ اَهْلِ الْقُرٰى فَلِلّٰهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ وَلِذِي الْقُرْبٰى وَالْيَتَامٰى وَالْمَسَاك۪ينِ وَابْنِ السَّب۪يلِۙ  كَيْ لَا يَكُونَ دُولَةً بَيْنَ الْاَغْنِيَٓاءِ مِنْكُمْۜ وَمَٓا اٰتٰيكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهٰيكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُواۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللّٰهَۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ شَد۪يدُ الْعِقَابِۢ

Ma afaa Allahu AAalarasoolihi min ahli alqura falillahi walirrasooliwalithee alqurba walyatama walmasakeeniwabni assabeeli kay la yakoona doolatanbayna al-aghniya-i minkum wama atakumuarrasoolu fakhuthoohu wama nahakumAAanhu fantahoo wattaqoo Allaha inna Allahashadeedu alAAiqab

What God gave in spoil to His messenger from the people of the cities belongs to God and His messenger, and to relatives, and the fatherless, and the needy, and the wayfarer[...] that it be not a distribution by turns between the rich among you. And what the Messenger gives you: take it, and from what he forbids you: refrain — and be in prudent fear of God; God is severe in retribution —

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hashr/verse-7.md_

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