Meaning: they invent · Also translated as: invents, invent, inventing, fabricates
Forms in the Quran
يَفْتَرُونَ×17
ٱفْتَرَىٰ×15
ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ×7
يُفْتَرَىٰ×3
تَفْتَرُونَ×2
ٱفْتَرَيْتُهُۥ×2
ٱفْتَرَيْنَا×1
لِّتَفْتَرُوا۟×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الفري: قطع الجلد للخرز والإصلاح، والإفراء للإفساد، والافتراء فيهما، وفي الإفساد أكثر، وكذلك استعمل في القرآن في الكذب والشرك والظلم. نحو: ومن يشرك بالله فقد افترى إثما عظيما
قوله تعالى: ﴿لقد جئت شيئا فريا﴾] مريم:27 [أي عظيما، وقيل: عجيبا، وقيل: مصنوعا مختلفا، ومعناها متقارب. وفي الحديث لما وصف عمر فقال: "لم أر عبقريا يفري فريه. وأصل الفري قطع الجلد للخرز، قال زهير بن أبي سلمى:] من الكامل [
Or they may say, "He forged it."
Say, "Bring ye then ten Sūras
Forged, like unto it, and call
(To your aid) whomsoever
Ye can, other than God!—
If ye speak the truth!
Who doth more wrong
Than those who invent a lie
Against God? They will be
Turned back to the presence
Of their Lord, and the witnesses
Will say, "These are the ones
Who lied against their Lord!
Behold! the Curse of God
Is on those who do wrong!—
There is, in their stories,
Instruction for men endued
With understanding. It is not
A tale invented, but a confirmation
Of what went before it,—
A detailed exposition
Of all things, and a Guide
And a Mercy to any such
As believe.
And they (even) assign,
To things they do not know,
A portion out of that
Which We have bestowed
For their sustenance!
By God, ye shall certainly
Be called to account
For your false inventions.
But say not—for any false thing
That your tongues may put forth,—
"This is lawful, and this
Is forbidden," so as to ascribe
False things to God. For those
Who ascribe false things
To God, will never prosper.
And their purpose was
To tempt thee away
From that which We
Had revealed unto thee,
To substitute in Our name
Something quite different:
(In that case), behold!
They would certainly have
Made thee (their) friend!
"These our people have taken
For worship gods other
Than Him: why do they
Not bring forward an authority
Clear (and convincing)
For what they do?
Who doth more wrong
Than such as invent
A falsehood against God?
Moses said to him:
Woe to you! Forge not
Ye a lie against God,
Lest He destroy you (at once)
Utterly by chastisement:
The forger must suffer
Frustration!"
"Nay," they say, "(these are)
Medleys of dreams!—Nay,
He forged it!—Nay,
He is (but) a poet!
Let him then bring us
A Sign like the ones
That were sent to
(Prophets) of old!"
But the Misbelievers say:
"Naught is this but a lie
Which he has forged,
And others have helped him
At it." In truth it is they
Who have put forward
An iniquity and a falsehood.
And from each people
Shall We draw a witness,
And We shall say: "Produce
Your Proof": then shall they
Know that the Truth is in
God (alone), and the (lies)
Which they invented will
Leave them in the lurch.
They will bear their own
Burdens, and (other) burdens
Along with their own,
And on the Day of Judgment.
They will be called to account
For their falsehoods.
And who does more wrong
Than he who invents
A lie against God
Or rejects the Truth
When it reaches him?
Is there not a home
In Hell for those who
Reject Faith?