Quran glossary · draft

المُهْل

molten fluid

A thick molten fluid whose extreme heat burns or boils.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: مهل

Lemmas: مهل

Forms: مُهْلِ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

18:29

وَقُلِ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيُؤْمِن وَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ إِنَّآ أَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ نَارًا أَحَاطَ بِهِمْ سُرَادِقُهَا وَإِن يَسْتَغِيثُوا۟ يُغَاثُوا۟ بِمَآءٍ كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَشْوِى ٱلْوُجُوهَ بِئْسَ ٱلشَّرَابُ وَسَآءَتْ مُرْتَفَقًا

44:45

كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُطُونِ

70:8

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ

Why this meaning was chosen

All six occurrences were reviewed. The form II and IV imperatives grant a brief delay to rejecters. The noun مُهْل instead denotes a burning molten substance and contradicts that temporal core, so its three occurrences are isolated as an exact lexical collision.