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ع-ص-ي

Ayn-Sad-Ya

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About this root

Ayn-Sad-Ya (ع-ص-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿaṣā (he disobeyed / he rebelled).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 32 times in 32 verses, across 23 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:61.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
عَصَى
ʿaṣā
he disobeyed / he rebelledverb, A2Quranic Verbs of Action

In the Quran

وَمَن يَعْصِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَيَتَعَدَّ حُدُودَهُۥ يُدْخِلْهُ نَارًا خَـٰلِدًا فِيهَا وَلَهُۥ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ

And whoso disobeyeth Allah and His messenger and transgresseth His limits, He will make him enter Fire, where he will dwell for ever; his will be a shameful doom.

Quran 4:14
وَبَرًّۢا بِوَٰلِدَيْهِ وَلَمْ يَكُن جَبَّارًا عَصِيًّا

And dutiful toward his parents. And he was not arrogant, rebellious.

Quran 19:14
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا تَنَـٰجَيْتُمْ فَلَا تَتَنَـٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْعُدْوَٰنِ وَمَعْصِيَتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ وَتَنَـٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَٱلتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ

O ye who believe! When ye conspire together, conspire not together for crime and wrongdoing and disobedience toward the messenger, but conspire together for righteousness and piety, and keep your duty toward Allah, unto whom ye will be gathered.

Quran 58:9

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A2verb
عَصَى
ʿaṣā

he disobeyed / he rebelled

Example
فَعَصَىٰ فِرْعَوْنُ الرَّسُولَ
fa-ʿaṣā Firʿawnu ar-rasūl
But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger (73:16)
Grammar

Defective verb (nāqiṣ) ending in yāʾ. Noun: مَعْصِيَةٌ (disobedience, sin). Opposite of أَطَاعَ (he obeyed).

Culture

Disobedience to God and His messengers is a recurring theme in Quranic narratives of past nations.

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