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Quran Maqasid

مَقْت

مقت in the Quran

Meaning: hatred

مقت occurs 6 times in 5 verses across 4 surahs of the Quran. Below is every verse with its translation. Tap any word to see its meaning.

Occurrences
6
Verses
5
Surahs
4

مَقْت

Noun · 6 times

Meaning: hatred · Also translated as: and hateful, hateful

Forms in the Quran

  • مَقْتًا ×3
  • وَمَقْتًا ×1
  • لَمَقْتُ ×1
  • مَّقْتِكُمْ ×1

Its root in the classical dictionaries

المقت: البغض الشديد لمن تراه تعاطى القبيح. يقال: مقت مقاتة فهو مقيت، ومقته فهو مقيت وممقوت. قال تعالى: إنه كان فاحشة ومقتا وساء سبيلا [النساء/ 22] وكان يسمى تزوج الرجل امرأة أبيه نكاح المقت، وأما المقيت فمفعل من القوت، وقد تقدم .

المفردات في غريب القرآن — الراغب الأصفهاني

قوله تعالى: ﴿لمقت الله أكبر من مقتكم أنفسكم﴾ [غافر: 10] المقت: أشد البغض، فهو أخص من البغض والمعنى إن مقت الله إياكم على كفركم أشد من بغضكم لأنفسكم حين يتبين لكم في الآخرة سوء عاقبتكم.

عمدة الحفاظ في تفسير أشرف الألفاظ — السمين الحلبي
The full entries on the root م ق ت

Verses with مقت

Verses 1–5 of 5

  1. Each word opens its meaning.

    And marry not women Whom your fathers married,— Except what is past: It was shameful and odious,— An abominable custom indeed.

    Surah An-Nisa, verse 4:22
  2. Each word opens its meaning.

    He it is that has made You inheritors in the earth: If, then, any do reject (God), their rejection (works) Against themselves: their rejection But adds to the odium For the Unbelievers In the sight of their Lord: Their rejection but adds To (their own) undoing.

    Surah Fatir, verse 35:39
  3. Each word opens its meaning.

    The Unbelievers will be Addressed: "Greater was The aversion of God to you Than (is), your aversion To yourselves, seeing that ye Were called to the Faith And ye used to refuse."

    Surah Ghafir, verse 40:10
  4. Each word opens its meaning.

    "(Such) as dispute about The Signs of God, Without any authority That hath reached them. Grievous and odious (Is such conduct) In the sight of God And of the Believers. Thus doth God seal up Every heart—of arrogant And obstinate transgressors."

    Surah Ghafir, verse 40:35
  5. Each word opens its meaning.

    Grievously odious is it In the sight of God That ye say that Which ye do not.

    Surah As-Saf, verse 61:3