Quran glossary · draft

نجس

impure

In an impure state incompatible with approaching the Sacred Mosque.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: نجس

Lemmas: نجس

Forms: نَجَسٌ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

9:28

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا ٱلْمُشْرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ فَلَا يَقْرَبُوا۟ ٱلْمَسْجِدَ ٱلْحَرَامَ بَعْدَ عَامِهِمْ هَٰذَا وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ عَيْلَةً فَسَوْفَ يُغْنِيكُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِۦٓ إِن شَآءَ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole predicative noun characterizes the associators and directly grounds the following prohibition on their approaching the Sacred Mosque after the stated year. The artifact does not classify the impurity more narrowly than this Quranic sacred-access relation.