Quran glossary · draft

رأس

principal capital

The original principal amount of wealth apart from added usurious increase.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: رأس

Lemmas: رأس

Forms: رُءُوسُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

2:279

فَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوا۟ فَأْذَنُوا۟ بِحَرْبٍ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ وَإِن تُبْتُمْ فَلَكُمْ رُءُوسُ أَمْوَٰلِكُمْ لَا تَظْلِمُونَ وَلَا تُظْلَمُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Seventeen occurrences denote the bodily head in grooming, posture, grasping, carrying, and punishment contexts. The single financial construction رُءُوسُ أَمْوَالِكُمْ extends the head relation to the principal amount of wealth recoverable after renouncing usury.