Heh-Lam-Kaf
2 words from this root family
Heh-Lam-Kaf (ه-ل-ك) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ahlaka (he destroyed / he annihilated), mustahlik (consumer).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 68 times in 63 verses, across 40 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:195. The form أَهْلَكَ (he destroyed / he annihilated) accounts for 51 of them.
Themes: Quranic, Law Economics
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
أَهْلَكَ ahlaka | he destroyed / he annihilated | verb, B1 | 51× | Quranic Verbs of Action |
مُسْتَهْلِك mustahlik | consumer | noun, B2 | Economic Policy |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَأَنفِقُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تُلْقُوا۟ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى ٱلتَّهْلُكَةِ ۛ وَأَحْسِنُوٓا۟ ۛ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَSpend your wealth for the cause of Allah, and be not cast by your own hands to ruin; and do good. Lo! Allah loveth the beneficent.
وَإِذَا تَوَلَّىٰ سَعَىٰ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ ٱلْحَرْثَ وَٱلنَّسْلَ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْفَسَادَAnd when he turneth away (from thee) his effort in the land is to make mischief therein and to destroy the crops and the cattle; and Allah loveth not mischief.
ذَٰلِكَ أَن لَّمْ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا غَـٰفِلُونَThis is because thy Lord destroyeth not the townships arbitrarily while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do).
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).
Form IV verb (أَفْعَلَ). Intransitive Form I هَلَكَ means 'he perished.' The noun هَلَاكٌ means destruction.
The Quran repeatedly warns through the stories of destroyed nations (ʿĀd, Thamūd, people of Lūṭ) as moral lessons.