Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 540
ظلم ظل coverings over them of fire )39:17( ظُلّةٌ and ظُلَلٌ have been generally used in the Holy Qur'an in connection with punishment. ظل : The light of the sun without the rays; shade; shadow or covering; blackness of the night; an apparition or phantom or a thing that one sees like a shadow مَرَّ بِنَا كَأَنَّهُ ظِلُّ ذِنْب : He passed by us as though he were the shadow of a wolf. ل الشَّبَابِ : The beginning of youth; a covering; might or power of resistance or defence )السُّلْطَانُ ظِلُّ الله : The sovereign is God's means of defence); protection or shelter: فُلانٌ يَعِيشُ فِي ظِلّ فُلانٍ = : Such a one lives in the protection of such a one; corporeal form or figure which one sees from a distance; a state of life plentiful, easy, pleasant ظِلُّ الشَّيْءِ : That which serves for the veiling, covering or protecting of a thing. وَظِلٌ مَّمْدُودٍ : And extended shade )56:31( ظِلٌ مِّنْ يَحْمُوْمِ : The shadow of black smoke )56:44( ظُلُوْلٌ and أَظْلَالٌ and ظِلالٌ are plurals of ظِلالُ ظِلُّ الْبَحْرِ : The waves of the sea. إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي ظِلال : The righteous are in the midst of shades )77:42( ظَلِيْلٌ : Giving or having shade or constant shade; cool مَكَانٌ ظَلِيْلٌ : A place having or giving shade. لا ظَلِيْلٍ : Neither affording shade )77:32( ظِلٌ ظَلِيْلٌ : Constant, extensive or dense or pleasant shade. وَنُدْخِلُهُمْ ظِلَّا ظَلِيْلاً : And We will make them enter dense shade or pleasant and plenteous shade (4:58). وه = ظَلَمَ ]aor. يَظْلِمُ inf. noun ظُلْمٌ and مَظْلِمَةٌ and ظُلْمٌ[ : He did wrong or acted wrongfully, unjustly or tyrannically; he wronged some one; he misused. الظُّلْمُ signifies: (1) The putting of a thing in a place not its own; i. e. putting it in a wrong place or misplacing it. مَنْ أَشْبَهَ أَبَاهُ فَمَا ظَلَمَ : Whoso resembles his father, has not put the likeness in a wrong place; (2) transgressing the proper limit. إِنَّ الشَّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ : "Shirk" is a grievous wrong )31:14( مَنْ حَمَلَ ظُلْمًا : Who makes himself responsible for or who does a great wrong )20:112( فَقَدْ جَاءُوا ظُلْمًا : They have brought forth a great injustice )25:5( ظَلَمَ الْوَادِي : The water of the valley reached a place that it had not reached before. فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِيْنَ ظَلَمُوا : Those who transgressed changed it (2:60); (3) making a person to suffer loss or detriment, and this is said to be of three kinds: Between 540