Quran glossary · draft

الطعن المعيب في الغير

fault-finding attack

A target is attacked through fault-finding disparagement, whether the act or its habitual practitioner is named.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: لمز

Lemmas: يلمز · لمزة

Forms: يَلْمِزُ · تَلْمِزُ · لُّمَزَةٍ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

9:58

وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَلْمِزُكَ فِى ٱلصَّدَقَٰتِ فَإِنْ أُعْطُوا۟ مِنْهَا رَضُوا۟ وَإِن لَّمْ يُعْطَوْا۟ مِنْهَآ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْخَطُونَ

9:79

ٱلَّذِينَ يَلْمِزُونَ ٱلْمُطَّوِّعِينَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِى ٱلصَّدَقَٰتِ وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ إِلَّا جُهْدَهُمْ فَيَسْخَرُونَ مِنْهُمْ سَخِرَ ٱللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

49:11

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُونُوا۟ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَآءٌ مِّن نِّسَآءٍ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ وَلَا تَلْمِزُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا۟ بِٱلْأَلْقَٰبِ بِئْسَ ٱلِٱسْمُ ٱلْفُسُوقُ بَعْدَ ٱلْإِيمَٰنِ وَمَن لَّمْ يَتُبْ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ

104:1

وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed all four frozen occurrences on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target rows. The verbal rows target the messenger, voluntary contributors, and fellow believers with fault-finding disparagement; the paired agent noun in 104:1 characterizes one who repeatedly performs the same act. Nearby ridicule in 9:79 and 49:11 confirms the hostile social thrust without making ridicule a separate core.