تَوَلَّىٰ

Appears 17 times in the Quran. (Root: ولي)
  1. And when he turn,s back, he runs along in the land that he may cause mischief in it and destroy the tilth and the stock, and Allah does not love mischief-making.

  2. Whoever therefore turns back after this, these it is that are the transgressors.

  3. Whoever obeys the Messenger, he indeed obeys Allah, and whoever turns back, so We have not sent you as a keeper over them.

  4. And whoever acts hostilely to the Messenger after that guidance has become manifest to him, and follows other than the way of the believers, We will turn him to that to which he has (himself) turned and make him enter hell; and it is an evil resort.

  5. Then he turned away from them and said: O my people I did certainly deliver to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice, but you do not love those who give good advice.

  6. So he turned away from them and said: O my people! certainly I delivered to you the messages of my Lord and I gave you good advice; how shall I then be sorry for an unbelieving people?

  7. And he turned away from them, and said: O my sorrow for Yusuf! and his eyes became white on account of the grief, and he was a repressor (of grief).

  8. Surely it has been revealed to us that the chastisement will surely come upon him who rejects and turns back.

  9. So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then came.

  10. Surely they who concocted the lie are a party from among you. Do not regard it an evil to you; nay, it is good for you. Every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and (as for) him who took upon himself the main part thereof, he shall have a grievous chastisement.

  11. But he turned away with his forces and said: A magician or a mad man.

  12. Therefore turn aside from him who turns his back upon Our reminder and does not desire anything but this world's life.

  13. Have you then seen him who turns his back?

  14. It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),

  15. But called the truth a lie and turned back,

  16. But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

  17. Who gives the lie (to the truth) and turns (his) back.