# Kaf-Be-Sin — قبس (qbs)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To ask or take fire from another, learn, teach, catch, get a light from another. Qabas - burning stick, fire brand, burning brand. Iqtabsa (verb 8) - to take light from another.
- **Derived forms:** قَبَس (2) · نَقْتَبِسْ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 10

- **Form in this verse:** بِقَبَسٍ — biqabasin · "a burning brand"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اِذْ رَاٰ نَاراً فَقَالَ لِاَهْلِهِ امْكُـثُٓوا اِنّ۪ٓي اٰنَسْتُ نَاراً لَعَلّ۪ٓي اٰت۪يكُمْ مِنْهَا بِقَبَسٍ اَوْ اَجِدُ عَلَى النَّارِ هُدًى

Ith raa naran faqalali-ahlihi omkuthoo innee anastu naran laAAallee ateekumminha biqabasin aw ajidu AAala annarihuda

When he saw a fire, and said to his people: “Stay here; I perceive a fire. I might bring you therefrom a firebrand, or find at the fire guidance.”

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-10.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** قَبَسٍۢ — qabasin · "burning"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اِذْ قَالَ مُوسٰى لِاَهْلِه۪ٓ اِنّ۪ٓي اٰنَسْتُ نَاراًۜ سَاٰت۪يكُمْ مِنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ اَوْ اٰت۪يكُمْ بِشِهَابٍ قَبَسٍ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ

Ith qala moosa li-ahlihiinnee anastu naran saateekum minhabikhabarin aw ateekum bishihabin qabasinlaAAallakum tastaloon

When Moses said to his people: “I perceive a fire. I will bring you news from it, or bring you a flaming brand, that you might warm yourselves.”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-7.md_

### 57. Surah Al-Hadid, Verse 13

- **Form in this verse:** نَقْتَبِسْ — naqtabis · "we may acquire"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 1st person, plural · present tense

يَوْمَ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ لِلَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا انْظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِنْ نُورِكُمْ ق۪يلَ ارْجِعُوا وَرَٓاءَكُمْ فَالْتَمِسُوا نُوراًۜ فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمْ بِسُورٍ لَهُ بَابٌۜ بَاطِنُهُ ف۪يهِ الرَّحْمَةُ وَظَاهِرُهُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ الْعَذَابُۜ

Yawma yaqoolu almunafiqoona walmunafiqatulillatheena amanoo onthuroonanaqtabis min noorikum qeela irjiAAoo waraakum faltamisoonooran faduriba baynahum bisoorin lahu babun batinuhufeehi arrahmatu wathahiruhumin qibalihi alAAathab

The day the wavering men and the wavering women will say to those who heeded warning: “Wait for us, that we may acquire some of your light,” it will be said: “Go back behind you, and seek light.” And a wall will be set up between them having a door, the inward of which is Mercy, and the outward, to the fore thereof, is Punishment.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hadid/verse-13.md_

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