ٱدْعُوهُمْ لِـَٔابَآئِهِمْ هُوَ أَقْسَطُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ فَإِن لَّمْ تَعْلَمُوٓا۟ ءَابَآءَهُمْ فَإِخْوَٰنُكُمْ فِى ٱلدِّينِ وَمَوَٰلِيكُمْ وَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ فِيمَآ أَخْطَأْتُم بِهِۦ وَلَٰكِن مَّا تَعَمَّدَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
Quran glossary · draft
مَوَالِي
close associates
Plural مَوَالِي in the unknown-parentage instruction denotes people retained in a close acknowledged social relation.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: ولي
Lemmas: موالي
Forms: مَوَٰلِي
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
One Quran-internal nextness core is tested across all 232 family occurrences. Protected prior drafts remain untouched. Form II composes causation, Form V self-orientation, nouns the close relation or state, and أَوْلَى comparative nearness; contextual rules supply turn-away, alliance, guardianship, friendship, succession, and priority renderings without multiplying lexical cores. Seven aligned witnesses were consulted only at the ambiguous dual, abstract nouns, and warning formulae.