ش ي ع Root sh-y-ʿ in the Qur’an 12 occurrences in 11 verses

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شِيعَة 11 times

• 6:65 · Al-An'amشِيَعًۭا (into) sectsSay, "He is the [one] Able to send upon you affliction from above you or from beneath your feet or to confuse you [so you become] sects and make you taste the violence of one another." Look how We diversify the signs that they might understand.
• 6:159 · Al-An'amشِيَعًۭا sectsIndeed, those who have divided their religion and become sects - you, [O Muhammad], are not [associated] with them in anything. Their affair is only [left] to Allah; then He will inform them about what they used to do.
• 15:10 · Al-Hijrشِيَعِ the sectsAnd We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples.
• 19:69 · Maryamشِيعَةٍ sectThen We will surely extract from every sect those of them who were worst against the Most Merciful in insolence.
• 28:4 · Al-Qasasشِيَعًۭا (into) sectsIndeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a sector among them, slaughtering their [newborn] sons and keeping their females alive. Indeed, he was of the corrupters.
• 28:15 · Al-Qasasشِيعَتِهِۦ his partyAnd he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."
• 28:15 · Al-Qasasشِيعَتِهِۦ his partyAnd he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."
• 30:32 · Ar-Rumشِيَعًۭا ۖ sects[Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.
• 34:54 · Sabaبِأَشْيَاعِهِم with their kindAnd prevention will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in disquieting denial.
• 37:83 · As-Saffatشِيعَتِهِۦ his kindAnd indeed, among his kind was Abraham,
• 54:51 · Al-Qamarأَشْيَاعَكُمْ your kindsAnd We have already destroyed your kinds, so is there any who will remember?

تَشِيعَ 1 time

• 24:19 · An-Nurتَشِيعَ (should) spreadIndeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed will have a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And Allah knows and you do not know.

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.