ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَّجُلًا فِيهِ شُرَكَآءُ مُتَشَٰكِسُونَ وَرَجُلًا سَلَمًا لِّرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
مُتَشَاكِس reciprocal-contention participle
hostile contention
Be engaged in difficult, hostile contention; reciprocal derivation can distribute that contention among multiple participants.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: شكس
Lemmas: متشاكس
Forms: مُتَشَٰكِسُونَ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
cooperating with one another
39:29
ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَّجُلًا فِيهِ شُرَكَآءُ مُتَشَٰكِسُونَ وَرَجُلًا سَلَمًا لِّرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Alternative: a man belonging to partners cooperating with one another, and a man belonging wholly to one man—are they equal?
Research rendering: a man belonging to partners quarreling with one another, and a man belonging wholly to one man—are they equal?
Cooperative partners erase the conflicting plurality that makes the first side contrast with unified single authority.