Arabic repeats an act as a noun to insist: “I slept a sleep”, I slept deeply. Grammarians: the maf'ûl mutlaq.
As a rule, this noun is taken from the very same verb. Three verses of the Qur'an do otherwise.
So her Lord accepted her with a good acceptance,
and made her grow a good growth, and put her in the care of Zakariyyâ (peace be upon him).
Anbatahâ: He made her grow, as one makes a plant grow. The verb reaches someone else: her.
The expected noun was inbâtan, from that same verb. The verse says nabâtan: a growth, from “she grew”.
Al-Qurtubî notes it: this noun is not the verb's own. The verse says anbata, and the noun belongs to nabata.
He adds al-Mufaddal's gloss: “He made her grow, and she grew a good growth.”
Ibn 'Âshûr reads the same noun more plainly: the lighter word was chosen, for the ease of the phrase.
Heard this way, the verse credits twice: the One who raised her, and the child who grew well.
And remember the name of your Lord, and devote yourself to Him with complete devotion.
Tabattal: cut yourself off, for Him. The expected noun was tabattulan. The verse says tabtîlan.
Az-Zamakhsharî asks why himself. His answer: to cut oneself off is to cut one's own self; and the rhyme of the verses.
Ibn 'Âshûr adds: being cut off asks for a cutting. The two words together train the soul to it.
And Satan wants to lead them astray, a far straying.
Yudillahum: he leads them astray, an act that reaches them. The noun, dalâlan, is their own straying.
Al-Qurtubî supplies the hidden verb: “so they stray, a far straying”. He compares it with “a growth” in 71:17.
So the verse names two parts: Satan's pull, and the steps of the one who follows him.
Three verses, one trait. The meaning, the rhyme, the ease of the phrase: the reasons differ. None calls it an accident.
Every time Zakariyyâ entered upon her in the prayer chamber, he found provision with her.
The early commentators say what that provision was: the fruit of summer in winter, the fruit of winter in summer.
You have read it about Maryam: “He made her grow a good growth.”
In Arabic, that second word is not the one the verb called for. Why?
A good acceptance, a good growth: the verse gives thanks twice, and in two directions.
Tonight, name one thing someone did to raise you well, and one step you took yourself. Thank Allah for both.