Arabic root

ف-س-د

Fa-Sin-Dal

1 word from this root family

About this root

Fa-Sin-Dal (ف-س-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: fasād (corruption / mischief / decay).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 50 times in 47 verses, across 23 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:11. The form فَسَادٌ (corruption / mischief / decay) accounts for 11 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
فَسَادٌ fasād	corruption / mischief / decay	noun, B1	11×	Covenants, Testing, and Forgiveness

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

In the Quran

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ

And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only.

Quran 2:11

أَلَآ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ

Are not they indeed the mischief-makers? But they perceive not.

Quran 2:12

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَآءُ بَعْضٍ ۚ إِلَّا تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُن فِتْنَةٌ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ

And those who disbelieve are protectors one of another - If ye do not so, there will be confusion in the land, and great corruption.

Quran 8:73

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).