Meaning: the transgressors · Also translated as: transgressing, a transgressor, surely those who commit excesses, the ones who are extravagant
Forms in the Quran
ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ×7
مُّسْرِفُونَ×2
لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ×2
مُسْرِفٌ×2
لَمُسْرِفُونَ×1
مُّسْرِفِينَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
السرف: تجاوز الحد في كل فعل يفعله الإنسان، وإن كان ذلك في الإنفاق أشهر. قال تعالى: والذين إذا أنفقوا لم يسرفوا ولم يقتروا
قوله تعالى: ﴿ولا تسرفوا﴾ [الأنعام: 141]. الإسراف: تجاوز الحد في سائر الأفعال، إلا أنه غلب في الإنفاق. ويقال باعتبارين: باعتبار القدر، وباعتبار الكيفية. ومنه قول سفيان: «ما أنفقت في غير طاعة الله فهو سرف وإن كان قليلا» وقال إياس بن معاوية: «الإسراف: ما قصر به عن حق الله تعالى» وهو ضد القصد. ويقال: فلان مسرف وفلان…
On that account: We ordained
For the Children of Israel
That if any one slew
A person—unless it be
For murder or for spreading
Mischief in the land—
It would be as if
He slew the whole people:
And if any one saved a life,
It would be as if he saved
The life of the whole people.
Then although there came
To them Our Apostles
With Clear Signs, yet,
Even after that, many
Of them continued to commit
Excesses in the land.
It is He who produceth
Gardens, with trellises
And without, and dates,
And tilth with produce
Of all kinds, and olives
And pomegranates,
Similar (in kind)
And different (in variety):
Eat of their fruit
In their season, but render
The dues that are proper
On the day that the harvest
Is gathered. But waste not
By excess: for God
Loveth not the wasters.
O Children of Adam!
Wear your beautiful apparel
At every time and place
Of prayer: eat and drink:
But waste not by excess,
For God loveth not the wasters.
When trouble toucheth a man,
He crieth unto Us
(In all postures)—lying down
On his side, or sitting,
Or standing. But when We
Have solved his trouble,
He passeth on his way as if
He had never cried to Us
For a trouble that touched him!
Thus do the deeds of transgressors
Seem fair in their eyes!
But none believed in Moses
Except some children of his People,
Because of the fear of Pharaoh
And his chiefs, lest they
Should persecute them; and certainly
Pharaoh was mighty on the earth
And one who transgressed all bounds.
A Believer, a man
From among the people
Of Pharaoh, who had concealed
His faith, said: "Will ye
Slay a man because he
Says, "My Lord is God"?—
When he has indeed come
To you with Clear (Signs)
From your Lord? And if
He be a liar, on him
Is (the sin of) his lie;
But, if he is telling
The Truth, then will
Fall on you something
Of the (calamity) of which
He warns you: truly
God guides not one
Who transgresses and lies!
"And to you there came
Joseph in times gone by,
With Clear Signs, but
Ye ceased not to doubt
Of the (mission) for which
He had come: at length,
When he died, ye said:
"No apostle will God send
After him." Thus doth God
Leave to stray such as
Transgress and live in doubt,—
"Without doubt ye do call
Me to one who is not
Fit to be called to,
Whether in this world,
Or in the Hereafter;
Our Return will be
To God; and the Transgressors
Will be Companions
Of the Fire!