ن ظ رlooking, considering

النظر · al-naẓar · looking; consideration

• Met in: V1 p12 ¶5a: «فالسعادة في الآخرة ولذة النظر لوجه الله تعالى», "happiness in the Hereafter, and the delight of looking at the Face of Allah".
• Dictionary form: نَظَر, the verbal noun of نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ, which Lane gives as "He looked at, or towards, in order to see, him, or it; he considered, or viewed, him or it with his eye". Lane also notes the phrase «وفيه نظر»: "But it requires consideration, by reason of its want of clearness".
• Pattern: فَعَل (faʿal).
• Meaning here: Looking: the delight of looking at the Face of Allah, which Ghazali names, with the happiness of the Hereafter, as the one thing wanted purely for itself.

Ibn Faris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, root نظر, vol 5, p 443

النون والظاء والراء أصل صحيح يرجع فروعه إلى معنى واحد وهو تأمل الشيء ومعاينته، ثم يستعار ويتسع فيه

One sound origin, whose branches go back to one meaning: considering a thing and seeing it with one's own eyes; then it is borrowed and widened. One of his examples: «نظرته، أي انتظرته», "I looked for him, that is, I waited for him".

Urdu bridge

نظر (sight, a glance), منظر (a view), نظریہ (a theory: a way of looking), ناظر (an onlooker) and انتظار (waiting: looking out for) are all Urdu. (to be confirmed)

Quran

129 words from this root (Quranic Arabic Corpus). Most common: نَّظَرَ (he looked) ×87, يُنظَرُ ×12, يَنتَظِرُ (he waits) ×8.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاضِرَةٌ

[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,

Surah Al-Qiyaama (75), ayah 22 · Saheeh International

إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ

Looking at their Lord.

Surah Al-Qiyaama (75), ayah 23 · Saheeh International

Why these ayat: «إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ», "Looking at their Lord": the looking that V1 p12 ¶5a calls a delight wanted for itself.

In the Ihya

النظر: 678 times in the Ihya.