Quran glossary · draft

مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ

keys

Keys embodying comprehensive authority over a domain.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قلد

Lemmas: مقاليد

Forms: مَقَالِيدُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

39:63

لَّهُۥ مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ

42:12

لَهُۥ مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ إِنَّهُۥ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all four occurrences. The two قَلَائِد targets are coordinated with consecrated offerings and participate in their protected sanctuary status. The two مَقَالِيد targets belong exclusively to God in relation to the heavens and earth; the following control of provision at 42:12 supports keys as a local rendering. The family bridge lies in a tangible token that marks status or embodies control, but the Quran does not describe the form of the divine مَقَالِيد. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. Whether keys is too concrete remains a segment-linked review point; no protected meaning was edited and the distinct forms do not support an exact lexical-collision split.