Quran glossary · draft

مُرْشِد

directing guide

One who causes another to follow a sound course.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: رشد

Lemmas: مرشد

Forms: مُّرْشِدًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

18:17

وَتَرَى ٱلشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَٰوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِى فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ مَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal comparison across all 19 family occurrences supports sound direction as the shared core. The finite verb profiles becoming rightly directed; the action nouns name a sound path, goal, or outcome; the orphan clause applies the core to competent property judgment; Abraham's granted رشد profiles sound discernment; رشيد and راشد profile persons or commands characterized by such direction; مرشد profiles one who causes it. The rhetorical force at 11:87 remains reviewable. No protected or pre-run meaning was edited, and no exact segment set forces a lexical collision.