# Fe-Te-Kaf — فتق (ftq)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To cleave asunder, split, break, disjoin, disunite, rend apart.
- **Derived forms:** فَتَقْ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 30

- **Form in this verse:** فَفَتَقْنَـٰهُمَا ۖ — fafataqnāhumā · "then We parted them"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 1st person, plural · past tense

اَوَلَمْ يَرَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُٓوا اَنَّ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقاً فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَاۜ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَٓاءِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَيٍّۜ اَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

Awa lam yara allatheenakafaroo anna assamawati wal-ardakanata ratqan fafataqnahuma wajaAAalnamina alma-i kulla shay-in hayyin afalayu/minoon

Have not those who ignore warning considered that the heavens and the earth were stitched together, then We ripped them apart and made of water every living thing? Will they then not believe!

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anbiya/verse-30.md_

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