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yaqīn
Certitude (yaqīn) means "knowledge that is free from any inaccuracy"; apparently, through it hell can be seen before the Day of Resurrection with the insight of the heart. → Read at 102:5
yatafaqqahū fī al-dīn
Becoming learned in religion: it covers all the roots and branches of the faith, not only the practical laws now commonly understood by fiqh, since only so can they warn their people. → Read at 9:122
yatawaffā
Seizing a right completely; in the Qur'an it is mostly used to mean taking the soul at death, attributed variously to the angels, the Angel of Death, or God. → Read at 8:50
yukshafu ʿan sāq
"The shank is laid bare" is a metaphor for severe difficulty, from a person rolling up his clothes to bare his legs to move faster in fight or flight. → Read at 68:42