Meaning: the polytheists · Also translated as: those who associate partners, those who associated partners, [the] polytheistic men, a polytheistic man
Forms in the Quran
ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ×24
مُشْرِكِينَ×4
لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ×4
وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ×4
ٱلْمُشْرِكُونَ×3
مُّشْرِكٍ×2
مُّشْرِكُونَ×2
لَمُشْرِكُونَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الشركة والمشاركة: خلط الملكين، وقيل:
قوله تعالى: ﴿جعلا له شركاء﴾ [الأعراف: 190] قرئ شركاء وشركا فالشرك يقال بمعنى الشريك، وبمعنى النصيب وفي التفسير أن إبليس عيرهما حين سمياه عبد الحارث وكان عبد الله في قصة ذكروها لا تصح عن مثل أبوينا، وإن صحت فمن ذرتيهما، لا منهما وجمعه أشراك، وأنشد للبيد: [من الوافر]
It is He Who has sent
His Apostle with Guidance
And the Religion of Truth,
That he may proclaim it
Over all religion,
Even though the Pagans
May detest (it).
Those who reject (Truth),
Among the People of the Book
And among the Polytheists,
Were not going to depart
(From their ways) until
There should come to them
Clear Evidence,—
Those who reject (Truth),
Among the People of the Book
And among the Polytheists,
Will be in hell-fire,
To dwell therein (for aye).
They are the worst
Of creatures.