فَمَآ ءَامَنَ لِمُوسَىٰٓ إِلَّا ذُرِّيَّةٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِۦ عَلَىٰ خَوْفٍ مِّن فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِمْ أَن يَفْتِنَهُمْ وَإِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ لَعَالٍ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
إِسْرَافُ الْمُتَسَلِّطِينَ
exercise oppressive excess
To wield command in a persistently oppressive and corrupt manner.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: سرف
Lemmas: مسرف
Forms: مُسْرِفِينَ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
وَلَا تُطِيعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ
مِن فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَالِيًا مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal comparison across all 23 occurrences supports boundary-crossing excess. The most explicit calibration is 25:67, where spending is neither سرف nor constriction but a stable position between them. Parallel commands forbid سرف in produce, eating, drinking, and retaliatory killing, while wider contexts apply the same core to sexual transgression, oppressive command, denial, and wrongdoing against oneself. No compacted candidate, protected meaning, or reading divergence affects the analysis.