Discover the meaning of the term Astsqa (استسقى) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readIstsqa someone, and hence: to ask him for water (for watering). In the Noble Quran: 'And when the people of Musa asked him for water (istasqahu), We inspired Musa: strike the stone with your staff, and there gushed forth from it twelve springs' (Al-A'raf, 160). Asqahu: to give him drink. Asqahu: to provide him with water or a watering; one says: he provided him with a stream of his river. Asqahu: to say to him: 'may Allah water you', or: 'a watering for you': it is an invocation in his favour.