سَيَقُولُ لَكَ ٱلْمُخَلَّفُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ شَغَلَتْنَآ أَمْوَٰلُنَا وَأَهْلُونَا فَٱسْتَغْفِرْ لَنَا يَقُولُونَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِم مَّا لَيْسَ فِى قُلُوبِهِمْ قُلْ فَمَن يَمْلِكُ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا إِنْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ ضَرًّا أَوْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ نَفْعًۢا بَلْ كَانَ ٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرًۢا
Quran glossary · draft
شَغَلَتْنَا أَمْوَالُنَا وَأَهْلُونَا
keep occupied
To take up someone's attention and activity at the expense of another demand.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: شغل
Lemmas: شغلت
Forms: شَغَلَتْ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences. At 36:55 the garden companions are within an engagement while delighting; at 48:11 the laggards claim that property and family occupied them from joining the expedition. Positive absorption and claimed distraction differ in value, but both center on attention being taken up by an activity or concern. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.