ش ر ق Root sh-r-q in the Qur’an 17 occurrences in 17 verses

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

مَشْرِق 11 times

• 2:115 · Al-Baqarahٱلْمَشْرِقُ (is) the eastAnd to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah. Indeed, Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing.
• 2:142 · Al-Baqarahٱلْمَشْرِقُ (is) the eastThe foolish among the people will say, "What has turned them away from their qiblah, which they used to face?" Say, "To Allah belongs the east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a straight path."
• 2:177 · Al-Baqarahٱلْمَشْرِقِ the eastRighteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.
• 2:258 · Al-Baqarahٱلْمَشْرِقِ the eastHave you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, "My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death," he said, "I give life and cause death." Abraham said, "Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west." So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.
• 7:137 · Al-A'rafمَشَـٰرِقَ (the) eastern (parts)And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.
• 26:28 · Ash-Shu'araٱلْمَشْرِقِ (of) the east[Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."
• 37:5 · As-Saffatٱلْمَشَـٰرِقِ (of) each point of sunriseLord of the heavens and the earth and that between them and Lord of the sunrises.
• 43:38 · Az-Zukhrufٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ (of) the East and the WestUntil, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "Oh, I wish there was between me and you the distance between the east and west - how wretched a companion."
• 55:17 · Ar-Rahmanٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ (of) the two Easts[He is] Lord of the two sunrises and Lord of the two sunsets.
• 70:40 · Al-Ma'arijٱلْمَشَـٰرِقِ (of) the risingsSo I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
• 73:9 · Al-Muzzammilٱلْمَشْرِقِ (of) the east[He is] the Lord of the East and the West; there is no deity except Him, so take Him as Disposer of [your] affairs.

مُشْرِق 2 times

• 15:73 · Al-Hijrمُشْرِقِينَ at sunriseSo the shriek seized them at sunrise.
• 26:60 · Ash-Shu'araمُّشْرِقِينَ (at) sunriseSo they pursued them at sunrise.

أَشْرَقَتِ 1 time

• 39:69 · Az-Zumarوَأَشْرَقَتِ And (will) shineAnd the earth will shine with the light of its Lord, and the record [of deeds] will be placed, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought, and it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged.

إِشْراق 1 time

• 38:18 · Sadوَٱلْإِشْرَاقِ and [the] sunriseIndeed, We subjected the mountains [to praise] with him, exalting [Allah] in the [late] afternoon and [after] sunrise.

شَرْقِيّ 1 time

• 19:16 · Maryamشَرْقِيًّۭا easternAnd mention, [O Muhammad], in the Book [the story of] Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place toward the east.

شَرْقِيَّة 1 time

• 24:35 · An-Nurشَرْقِيَّةٍۢ (of the) eastAllah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.