وَلَن تَسْتَطِيعُوٓا۟ أَن تَعْدِلُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتُمْ فَلَا تَمِيلُوا۟ كُلَّ ٱلْمَيْلِ فَتَذَرُوهَا كَٱلْمُعَلَّقَةِ وَإِن تُصْلِحُوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
Quran glossary · draft
مُعَلَّقَة
relational suspension
A person is left dependent in an unresolved relationship without receiving either complete commitment or decisive release.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: علق
Lemmas: معلقة
Forms: مُعَلَّقَةِ
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
developmental stage
4:129
وَلَن تَسْتَطِيعُوٓا۟ أَن تَعْدِلُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتُمْ فَلَا تَمِيلُوا۟ كُلَّ ٱلْمَيْلِ فَتَذَرُوهَا كَٱلْمُعَلَّقَةِ وَإِن تُصْلِحُوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
Alternative: do not incline completely and leave the wife like a developmental stage
Research rendering: do not incline completely and leave her in unresolved suspension
The marital simile requires an unresolved dependent status; no human-creation sequence is present.