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ف-ح-ش

Fa-Ha-Shin

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Fa-Ha-Shin (ف-ح-ش) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: fāḥishah (indecency / immorality / grave sin).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 24 times in 23 verses, across 15 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:169. The form فَاحِشَةٌ (indecency / immorality / grave sin) accounts for 17 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
فَاحِشَةٌ
fāḥishah
indecency / immorality / grave sinnoun, B117×Lawful, Forbidden, and Duty

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

إِنَّمَا يَأْمُرُكُم بِٱلسُّوٓءِ وَٱلْفَحْشَآءِ وَأَن تَقُولُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

He enjoineth upon you only the evil and the foul, and that ye should tell concerning Allah that which ye know not.

Quran 2:169
ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱلْفَقْرَ وَيَأْمُرُكُم بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ يَعِدُكُم مَّغْفِرَةً مِّنْهُ وَفَضْلًا ۗ وَٱللَّهُ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ

The devil promiseth you destitution and enjoineth on you lewdness. But Allah promiseth you forgiveness from Himself with bounty. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Quran 2:268
وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا۟ فَـٰحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ فَٱسْتَغْفَرُوا۟ لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ ٱلذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

And those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins - Who forgiveth sins save Allah only? - and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did.

Quran 3:135

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

B1noun
فَاحِشَةٌ
fāḥishah

indecency / immorality / grave sin

Example
وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ
wa-lā taqrabū al-fawāḥisha mā ẓahara minhā wa-mā baṭan
And do not approach immoralities, what is apparent of them and what is concealed (6:151)
Grammar

Feminine noun. Plural: فَوَاحِشُ (fawāḥish), a broken plural. Active participle form used as a noun.

Culture

The Quran prohibits not just committing indecency but even approaching it - a principle of preventive morality in Islamic law.

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