Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 652
فسر فسد وَاللَّهُ despoil it )27:35( أَفْسَدَ إِلَيْهِ : He acted dishonestly to him or did evil to him. أَفْسَدَ الْقَوْمَ : He created caused disorder or dissension between the people. مَنْ يُفْسِدُ فِيْهَا : Who will cause disorder or disturbance in it )2:31( مُفْسِدٌ act. part. from )اَفْسَدَ( : One who acts dishonestly, causes disorder or a wicked or evil man. يَعْلَمُ الْمُفْسِدَ مِنَ الْمُصْلِحِ : Allah knows the mischief-maker from the reformer )2:221( مُفْسِدُوْنَ and مُفْسِدِينَ are plurals of مُفْسِدٌ )22:13:3:64( فَسَادٌ Badness, corruptness, wickedness or dishonesty; the state of being devoid of virtue or efficacy; a corrupted, vitiated state; a state of disorder, disturbance or of destruction, waste or ruin (contr. of فَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ صَلاحُ : A great disorder (8:74); drought, barrenness, dearth or scarcity of good. ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ : Corruption or scarcity of good or spiritual barrenness has appeared on land and sea (30:42). 280 فَسَرَ ]aor. يَفْسُرُ and يَفْسِرُ inf. noun فَسْرٌ and فَسَّرَ inf. noun فَسَرَهُ تَفْسِيرٌ or فَسَّرَهُ : He discovered, detected, developed or disclosed a thing that was concealed or obscured; he rendered it apparent, plain or clear; explained, expounded or interpreted it. تَفْسِيرٌ : Detection, disclosing; making apparent, plain or clear; explanation, expounding or interpreting. According to some تَفْسِيرٌ and تَأْوِيْلٌ signify the same or تَفْسِيرٌ signifies the discovering, revealing or disclosing or explaining what is meant by a dubious expression and تَأْوِيْلٌ signifies the reducing one of two senses or interpretations, which an expression bears or admits to that which suits the apparent meaning or it signifies the turning of a verse of the Holy Qur'an from its apparent meaning to a meaning which it bears or admits when the latter is agreeable with the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, for instance in the phrase يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ if the meaning be (thus explained) "He produces the bird from the egg", this is تَفْسِيرٌ and if the meaning be explained as "He produces the believer 28 from the disbelievers" or "the knowing from the ignorant", This is تَأْوِيلٌ and تَفْسِيْرٌ signifies the expounding or interpreting of the narratives that occur collected without discrimination in the Holy Qur'an and making known of the significations of the 652