Quran glossary · draft

سُفْلَى وأَسْفَلِين

lowered rank

Assigned to an inferior or deeply lowered rank on an evaluative scale.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 6

Roots: سفل

Lemmas: أسفل · سفلى · سافل

Forms: أَسْفَلِينَ · أَسْفَلِ · سُّفْلَىٰ · أَسْفَلَ · سَٰفِلِينَ

Occurrence examples (6 of 6)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 6.

4:145

إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ فِى ٱلدَّرْكِ ٱلْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ ٱلنَّارِ وَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ نَصِيرًا

9:40

إِلَّا تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ ٱللَّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ثَانِىَ ٱثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِى ٱلْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَٰحِبِهِۦ لَا تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُۥ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُۥ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ٱلسُّفْلَىٰ وَكَلِمَةُ ٱللَّهِ هِىَ ٱلْعُلْيَا وَٱللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

37:98

فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ

41:29

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ رَبَّنَآ أَرِنَا ٱلَّذَيْنِ أَضَلَّانَا مِنَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ نَجْعَلْهُمَا تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِنَا لِيَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ

95:5

ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَٰهُ أَسْفَلَ سَٰفِلِينَ

95:5

ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَٰهُ أَسْفَلَ سَٰفِلِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All ten occurrences share a lower-position core. Banks, directions, and an overturned settlement anchor vertical placement; words, defeated opponents, levels of Fire, and adverse human outcomes extend the same above-below scale to rank. The destination or condition compressed in 95:5 remains an explicit review question. No candidate, collision, or aligned reading divergence is present.