مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ أَنَّهُۥ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْسًۢا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَآ أَحْيَا ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَلَقَدْ جَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنْهُم بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
الْإِسْرَافُ فِي الْقَتْلِ
overstep in taking life
To exceed the permitted boundary in taking life.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: سرف
Lemmas: مسرف · أسرف
Forms: مُسْرِفُونَ · يُسْرِف
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا۟ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلَّتِى حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَمَن قُتِلَ مَظْلُومًا فَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا لِوَلِيِّهِۦ سُلْطَٰنًا فَلَا يُسْرِف فِّى ٱلْقَتْلِ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مَنصُورًا
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal comparison across all 23 occurrences supports boundary-crossing excess. The most explicit calibration is 25:67, where spending is neither سرف nor constriction but a stable position between them. Parallel commands forbid سرف in produce, eating, drinking, and retaliatory killing, while wider contexts apply the same core to sexual transgression, oppressive command, denial, and wrongdoing against oneself. No compacted candidate, protected meaning, or reading divergence affects the analysis.