Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 153
جهنم جهل 28 conduct. جَهْلٌ in the sense of ignorance is of two kinds i. e. )1( the non-existence of knowledge of that which should be known; (2) a decisive belief not agreeable with the fact or reality. According to Imam Raghib it is of three kinds: (1) The mind's voidness of knowledge which is the primary meaning and (2) the believing of a thing to be different from what it is and (3) the doing of a thing in a manner different from that in which it ought to be done. كفى بالشَّكِ جَهْلاً : Doubt is sufficient ignorance. وَلَكِنِّي أَرَاكُمْ قَوْمًا تَجْهَلُوْنَ : I see that you are a people who act ignorantly )11:30( جَاهِلٌ )plural( )جَاهِلُوْنَ and جَاهِلِيْنَ and جُهَالٌ and جُهَاءُ( : Ignorant ; neglectful; foolish or silly and wrong in conduct. الْجَاهِلُ : The lion that is ignorant of the prey. هُوَ جَاهِلٌ مِّنْهُ : He is ignorant of him (his condition) or it. يَحْسَبُهُمُ الْجَاهِلُ أَغْنِيَاءَ : The ignorant man thinks them to be free from want )2:274( إذْ : أَنْ أَكُوْنَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ (12:90) When you were ignorant : أَنْتُمْ جَاهِلُوْنَ وش That I may be of the ignorant )2:68( جَهُولٌ means most إِنَّهُ : جَاهِلٌ كَانَ ظَلُوْمًا جَهُوْلًا : Indeed he is most unjust and most neglectful )3373( جَهَالَةٌ : Ignorance; foolishness or silliness. يَعْمَلُوْنَ السُّوْءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ : Who do evil due to ignorance. جَاهِلِيَّةٌ : Ignorance. الْجَاهِلِيَّةُ : Days of Ignorance; time before the Holy Prophet. يَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ ظَنَّ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ : Thinking wrongly of Allah like unto the thought of ignorance )3:55( اَفَحُكْمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُوْنَ : Do they then seek the judgement of the Days of Ignorance )5:51( جَاهِلِيَّةُ الْجُهَاءِ : The time or state of ignorance or intense ignorance. جَاهِلِي : Apagana pagan Arab; relating to ignorance. جَهَنَّمُ Hell or Hell-fire, a name of the fire with which God will punish 38 the evil-doers in the life to come; a proper name of the abode of punishment. According to some it is an Arabic word applied to the fire of the world to come because of its depth )جهنام and جَهَنَّمُ applied to a well meaning deep, in which he who falls perishes) or originally syn. with اَلنَّارُ The word may have been derived from جَهُم which means, he became frowning, contracted or ugly in face, being something additional the sense being that جَهَنَّمُ is a place the very sight of which makes the face of the onlooker contracted on account of aversion. Or it may have 153