# Lam-Fe-Te — لفت (lft)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To turn aside/round, pervert, bend, look back/about, wring, twist, avert (the face) from
- **Derived forms:** تَلْفِتَ (1) · يَلْتَفِتْ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 10. Surah Yunus, Verse 78

- **Form in this verse:** لِتَلْفِتَنَا — litalfitanā · "to turn us away"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

قَالُٓوا اَجِئْتَنَا لِتَلْفِتَنَا عَمَّا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ اٰبَٓاءَنَا وَتَكُونَ لَكُمَا الْكِبْرِيَٓاءُ فِي الْاَرْضِۜ وَمَا نَحْنُ لَكُمَا بِمُؤْمِن۪ينَ

Qaloo aji/tana litalfitanaAAamma wajadna AAalayhi abaanawatakoona lakuma alkibriyao fee al-ardi wamanahnu lakuma bimu/mineen

They said: “Hast thou come to us to turn us away from that upon which we found our fathers, and that there be for you majesty in the land? And we do not believe you.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yunus/verse-78.md_

### 11. Surah Hud, Verse 81

- **Form in this verse:** يَلْتَفِتْ — yaltafit · "look back"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

قَالُوا يَا لُوطُ اِنَّا رُسُلُ رَبِّكَ لَنْ يَصِلُٓوا اِلَيْكَ فَاَسْرِ بِاَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍ مِنَ الَّيْلِ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنْكُمْ اَحَدٌ اِلَّا امْرَاَتَكَۜ اِنَّهُ مُص۪يبُهَا مَٓا اَصَابَهُمْۜ اِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُۜ اَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَر۪يبٍ

Qaloo ya lootu innarusulu rabbika lan yasiloo ilayka faasri bi-ahlika biqitAAinmina allayli wala yaltafit minkum ahadun illaimraataka innahu museebuha ma asabahuminna mawAAidahumu assubhu alaysa assubhubiqareeb

Said they: “O Lot: we are messengers of thy Lord; they will not reach thee. And travel thou with thy household during a portion of the night; and let not any one of you turn around save thy wife — there will befall her what befalls them. Their appointment is the morning; is then the morning not near?”

_https://quran.so/surah-hud/verse-81.md_

### 15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 65

- **Form in this verse:** يَلْتَفِتْ — yaltafit · "let look back"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

فَاَسْرِ بِاَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍ مِنَ الَّيْلِ وَاتَّبِـعْ اَدْبَارَهُمْ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنْكُمْ اَحَدٌ وَامْضُوا حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُونَ

Faasri bi-ahlika biqitAAin minaallayli wattabiAA adbarahum wala yaltafitminkum ahadun wamdoo haythutu/maroon

“So travel thou with thy household in a portion of the night, and follow thou their backs; and let not any one of you turn round, but go on to where you are commanded.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hijr/verse-65.md_

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