Meaning: the corrupters · Also translated as: spreading corruption, corrupters, the ones who spread corruption, the corrupter
Forms in the Quran
ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ×10
مُفْسِدِينَ×5
بِٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ×2
ٱلْمُفْسِدُونَ×1
ٱلْمُفْسِدَ×1
مُفْسِدُونَ×1
كَٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الفساد: خروج الشيء عن الاعتدال، قليلا كان الخروج عنه أو كثيرا، ويضاده الصلاح، ويستعمل ذلك في النفس، والبدن، والأشياء الخارجة عن الاستقامة، يقال: فسد فسادا وفسودا ، وأفسده غيره. قال تعالى: لفسدت السماوات والأرض [المؤمنون/ 71] ، لو كان فيهما آلهة إلا الله لفسدتا [الأنبياء/ 22] ، ظهر الفساد في البر والبحر [الروم/ 41] ،…
قوله تعالى: ﴿ألا إنهم هم المفسدون﴾] البقرة:12 [الفساد لغة: خروج الشيء عن الاعتدال والاستقامة، قل ذلك الخروج أو كثر، ويكون في الأعيان والمعاني. ومنه فساد العقائد أعاذنا الله منه. ويستعمل في النفس والبدن. وفي الحديث: "إذا فسد القلب فسد سائر البدن" يقال: فسد يفسد فسادا فهو فاسد. وأفسد يفسد فهو مفسد إفسادا.
And remember Moses prayed
For water for his people;
We said: "Strike the rock
With thy staff." Then gushed forth
Therefrom twelve springs.
Each group knew its own place
For water. So eat and drink
Of the sustenance provided by God,
And do no evil nor mischief
On the (face of the) earth.
(Their bearings) on
This life and the Hereafter.
They ask thee
Concerning orphans.
Say: "The best thing to do
Is what is for their good;
If ye mix
Their affairs with yours,
They are your brethren;
But God knows
The man who means mischief
From the man who means good.
And if God had wished,
He could have put you
Into difficulties: He is indeed
Exalted in Power, Wise.
The Jews say: "God's hand
Is tied up." Be their hands
Tied up and be they accursed
For the (blasphemy) they utter.
Nay, both His hands
Are widely outstretched:
He giveth and spendeth
(Of His bounty) as He pleaseth.
But the revelation that
Cometh to thee from God
Increaseth in most of them
Their obstinate rebellion
And blasphemy. Amongst them
We have placed enmity
And hatred till the Day
Of Judgment. Every time
They kindle the fire of war,
God doth extinguish it;
But they (ever) strive
To do mischief on earth.
And God loveth not
Those who do mischief.
"And remember how He
Made you inheritors
After the ’Ad people
And gave you habitations
In the land: ye build
For yourselves palaces and castles
In (open) plains, and carve out
Homes in the mountains;
So bring to remembrance
The benefits (ye have received)
From God, and refrain
From evil and mischief
On the earth."
"And squat not on every road,
Breathing threats, hindering
From the path of God
Those who believe in Him,
And seeking in it
Something crooked;
But remember how ye were
Little, and He gave you increase.
And hold in your mind's eye
What was the end
Of those who did mischief.
Then after them We sent
Moses with Our Signs
To Pharaoh and his chiefs,
But they wrongfully rejected them:
So see what was the end
Of those who made mischief.
We appointed for Moses
Thirty nights, and completed
(The period) with ten (more):
Thus was completed the term
(Of communion) with his Lord,
Forty nights. And Moses
Had charged his brother Aaron
(Before he went up):
"Act for me amongst my people:
Do right, and follow not
The way of those
Who do mischief."
When they had had their throw,
Moses said: "What ye
Have brought is sorcery:
God will surely make it
Of no effect: for God
Prospereth not the work
Of those who make mischief.
"And O my people! give
Just measure and weight,
Nor withhold from the people
The things that are their due:
Commit not evil in the land
With intent to do mischief.
They said: "O Ẓul-qarnain!
The Gog and Magog (people)
Do great mischief on earth:
Shall we then render thee
Tribute in order that
Thou mightest erect a barrier
Between us and them?
And they rejected those Signs
In iniquity and arrogance,
Though their souls were convinced
Thereof: so see what was
The end of those
Who acted corruptly!
Truly Pharaoh elated himself
In the land and broke up
Its people into sections,
Depressing a small group
Among them: their sons he slew,
But he kept alive their females:
For he was indeed
A maker of mischief.
"But seek, with the (wealth)
Which God has bestowed on thee,
The Home of the Hereafter,
Nor forget thy portion in this
World: but do thou good,
As God has been good
To thee, and seek not
(Occasions for) mischief in the land:
For God loves not those
Who do mischief."
To the Madyan (people)
(We sent) their brother Shu‘aib.
Then he said: "O my people!
Serve God, and fear the Last
Day: nor commit evil
On the earth, with intent
To do mischief."