al-Naḥl 16:41-42

Wa'lladhīna hājarū fi'llāhi min baʿdi mā ẓulimū la-nubawwiʾannahum fi'l-dunyā ḥasana, wa la-ajru'l-ākhirati akbar, law kānū yaʿlamūn · Alladhīna ṣabarū wa ʿalā rabbihim yatawakkalūn

"Those who emigrated for God's sake after they had been wronged — We shall surely settle them well in this world; and the reward of the hereafter is greater, if only they knew. · They are those who were patient and who rely upon their Lord."

The concrete sense of the root: to part from, to abandon, to cut a tie. Hajr — abandonment; hijra — departure from one's homeland. That it comes from Form III (hājara) is worth recording: this form conveys reciprocity, and the lexicographers record here the sense that while a man leaves a thing, the thing leaves him as well.

And the qualification is important: min baʿdi mā ẓulimū — "after they had been wronged". The departure is thus named not as a choice but as a consequence.

لَنُبَوِّئَنَّهُمْ — root ب-و-أ: to settle in a place, to give a position. Mubawwaʾ — the place in which one is settled. The lām at the head of the verb and the nūn at its end (the nūn of emphasis) must be recorded: the sentence is reinforced twice over.

And the same verb occurred in the same form at al-ʿAnkabūt, 29/58 (la-nubawwiʾannahum mina'l-jannati ghurafā), and there too it was followed by alladhīna ṣabarū wa ʿalā rabbihim yatawakkalūn. The two verses are almost identical in structure, and this is an overlap verifiable across the sūras.

The difference must be recorded:

I record this as my own reading; its ground is the difference between the two verses: al-Naḥl begins by giving the return in this world and adds the hereafter separately. The cost of the emigration is thus not tied to a deferred return alone.