Quran glossary · draft

أَحْلَام

governing faculties

Faculties by which conduct is governed through deliberation.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حلم

Lemmas: حلم

Forms: أَحْلَٰمُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

52:32

أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَٰمُهُم بِهَٰذَآ أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 21 occurrences were compared. The adjective حَلِيم consistently profiles settled forbearance in divine and human descriptions. The solitary أَحْلَام at 52:32 is provisionally retained as governing deliberative faculties because those faculties are said to command conduct. The three dream-image occurrences and two maturity-threshold occurrences are exact-segment lexical collisions whose Quran-internal behavior contradicts a stable self-command quality. No aligned reading divergence is present.