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Arabic root

ف-ش-ل

Fa-Shin-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Fa-Shin-Lam (ف-ش-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: fashala (to fail), fashal (failure).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:122.

Themes: Work, Verbs, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
فَشَلَ
fashala
to failverb, A2Professional Life
فَشَل
fashal
failurenoun, B1Time & Change

In the Quran

إِذْ هَمَّت طَّآئِفَتَانِ مِنكُمْ أَن تَفْشَلَا وَٱللَّهُ وَلِيُّهُمَا ۗ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ

When two parties of you almost fell away, and Allah was their Protecting Friend. In Allah let believers put their trust.

Quran 3:122
إِذْ يُرِيكَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى مَنَامِكَ قَلِيلًا ۖ وَلَوْ أَرَىٰكَهُمْ كَثِيرًا لَّفَشِلْتُمْ وَلَتَنَـٰزَعْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَمْرِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَلَّمَ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

When Allah showed them unto thee (O Muhammad) in thy dream as few in number, and if He had shown them to thee as many, ye (Muslims) would have faltered and would have quarreled over the affair. But Allah saved (you). Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).

Quran 8:43
وَأَطِيعُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَلَا تَنَـٰزَعُوا۟ فَتَفْشَلُوا۟ وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ ۖ وَٱصْبِرُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

And obey Allah and His messenger, and dispute not one with another lest ye falter and your strength depart from you; but be steadfast! Lo! Allah is with the steadfast.

Quran 8:46

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
فَشَلَ
fashala

to fail

Example
فَشَلَ المَشْروع بِسَبَب قِلّة التَمْويل.
fashala al-mashrūʿ bisabab qillat at-tamwīl.
The project failed due to lack of funding.
B1noun
فَشَل
fashal

failure

Example
الفَشَلُ خُطوَةٌ نَحوَ النَّجاح.
al-fashalu khuṭwatun naḥwa n-najāḥ.
Failure is a step toward success.

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