فَقَالَ ٱلْمَلَأُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن قَوْمِهِۦ مَا نَرَىٰكَ إِلَّا بَشَرًا مِّثْلَنَا وَمَا نَرَىٰكَ ٱتَّبَعَكَ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ أَرَاذِلُنَا بَادِىَ ٱلرَّأْىِ وَمَا نَرَىٰ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن فَضْلٍۭ بَلْ نَظُنُّكُمْ كَٰذِبِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
أَرَاذِلُنَا · ٱلْأَرْذَلُونَ
the socially lowest
People disparaged by a speaker as occupying the lowest social rank.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: رذل
Lemmas: أرذل
Forms: أَرَاذِلُ · أَرْذَلُونَ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
قَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لَكَ وَٱتَّبَعَكَ ٱلْأَرْذَلُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all four occurrences. At 11:27 and 26:111 rejecting elites disparage Noah's followers as the socially lowest; the artifact preserves that speaker attribution rather than endorsing it. At 16:70 and 22:5 the superlative phrase describes the most diminished stage of life, marked by loss of prior knowledge. Social evaluation and life-stage decline share placement at the bottom of an assessed scale. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.