شَرِّ
A word in the Arabic language will either be 1) a verb or 2) a noun or 3) a particle – شَرِّ is a noun
A noun may either be 1) Definite or indefinite 2) Masculine or feminine 3) Singular, dual or plural 4) Nominative, accusative or genitive
الشَّرُّ is the natural state of this definite noun and it changes to الشَّرِّ due to: 1) a preposition that precedes it or 2) a possessed noun that precedes it or 3) it’s a noun of dependent declension a) نَعْتٌ / صِفَطٌ adjectives b) التَّوْكِيْدُ emphatic c) المَعْطُوْفٌ conjunction d) البَدَلُ synonym
الشَّرِّ loses it’s definite article, becoming شَرِّ due to it being a possessed noun
To do evil, be ill natured, bad, wicked, find fault, defame
| Grammatical analysis of شَرِّ |
| اسْمٌ مَجْرُوْرٌ بِالكَسْرَةِ الزَّاهِرَةِ وَهُوَ مُضَافٌ |
| مَعْرِفَةٌ | مُفْرَدٌ | مُذَكَّرٌ | مَجْرُوْرٌ | ش ر ر | بَاب نَصَرَ | شَرَّ يَشُرُّ | فَعْلٌ | اسْمٌ | الصِّفَاتُ المُشَبَّهَةُ |
| Definite | Singular | Masculine | Genitive | Root | Evil | ن | Pattern | Noun | A quality or descriptive noun |
| bad | |||||||||
| Wicked | |||||||||
| Vicious one | |||||||||
| Fault finding | |||||||||
| Defame | |||||||||
| Surah/Verse | Below are the 5 verses in the holy Quran containing the descriptive possessed noun | شَرِّ |
| 113-2 | From the evil of what He has created | مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ |
| 113-3 | And from the evil of a darkener as he darkens | وَمِنْ شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ |
| 113-4 | And from the evil of the evil whisperers who bind | وَمِنْ شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ |
| 113-5 | And from the evil of the envier when he envies | وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ |
| 114-4 | From the evil of the retreating whisperer | مِنْ شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ |