Quran glossary · draft

لَا تُشْطِطْ

overstep

To exceed the just bounds required in judgment.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: شطط

Lemmas: تشطط

Forms: تُشْطِطْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

38:22

إِذْ دَخَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ دَاوُۥدَ فَفَزِعَ مِنْهُمْ قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ خَصْمَانِ بَغَىٰ بَعْضُنَا عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ فَٱحْكُم بَيْنَنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا تُشْطِطْ وَٱهْدِنَآ إِلَىٰ سَوَآءِ ٱلصِّرَٰطِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all three occurrences. The noun at 18:14 and 72:4 characterizes speech about God that grossly exceeds truth. Form IV at 38:22 prohibits a judge from exceeding just bounds and is paired with judging by truth and guiding to the path's midpoint. Speech and judgment therefore share one forceful boundary-overreach core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.