Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 447
شق شق شَقَّ aor. يَشُقُّ inf. noun شَقَّ الشَّيْءَ شَقُّ : He split, clave, tore or rent the thing. شَقَّ الْعَصَا : He broke the staff, i. e. he separated himself from the community. شَقَّ عَصَا الْمُسْلِمِينَ : He created disunion and dissension among the Muslims. شَقَّ النَّبْتُ : The vegetation sprouted forth from the earth ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا الْأَرْضَ : Then We clave the earth )80:27( شَقَّ النَّهْرَ : He crossed the river by crossing. شَقَّ عَلَيْهِ )inf. noun مُشَقَّةٌ( : It had a severe effect upon him; it distressed, afflicted, fatigued him; it was hard, troublesome, oppressive to him; he caused him to fall into a hard, distressing position imposed upon or imposed upon him that which was burdensome, oppressive or onerous. وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَيْكَ : And I would not lay any hardship upon you )28:28( شَاقَّهُ : He opposed him and became hostile to him so that each side sided with a different party; he acted inimically towards him so that each side did the other what was distressing or grievous and was in the opposite side. شِقَاق : Opposition; hostility; schism; being mutually remote. This word, however, is not used about the party which sides with the truth فَإِنَّهُمْ فِي شِقَاق : They are creating a schism )2:138( ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ شَاقُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُوْلَةً وَمَنْ يُشَاقِقِ اللهَ وَرَسُوْلَهُ : This is because they have opposed Allah and His Prophet and whoso opposes Allah and His Prophet (8:14;also The people contented and quarrelled : تَشَاقَ الْقَوْمُ فِي الشَّيْءِ (59:5. with each other and took opposite sides. كُنتُمْ تُشَاقُوْنَ فِيْهِمْ : For whose sake you opposed the truth )16:28( تَشَقَّقَ : It became rent or cloven in pieces. يَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّمَاءُ : On the day when the heaven shall be rent asunder (25:26). It is syn with وَانْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ اِنْشَقَّ : And the moon is rent asunder. شِقٌ : The half. اتَّقُوا النَّارَ وَلَوْ بِشِقٌ تَمْرَةٍ : Save yourselves from the Fire even though with the half of a date (Hadith); the side of a thing or its counterpart; a man's brother; a thing at which one looks; difficulty, hardship, distress; languor or lack of power that overtakes the mind and the body or such as overtakes a man in consequence of travel. إِلَّا بِشِقِ الْأَنْفُسِ : Except with great hardship to (yourselves( )16:8(. شقة : The half or a piece of a garment; a piece or portion of Hell; a far journey; a difficult road; a part, region, quarter or 447