# Ha-Ra-Dad — حرض (HrD)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/HrD

- **Meaning:** To become emaciated, be disordered, be profligate, become sick or diseased, be weary, become fatigued at the point of death, be dissolved by excessive grief or love, constantly affected by grief so as to be at the point of death, suffer protracted disquietude of mind and disease, be unable to rise from or quit the place, become low or sordid or bad, be neglected or forsaken, possess no good, to excite/urge/instigate someone, rouse someone to ardour or to fight, contend with another in shuffling or playing with gaming-arrows, apply oneself constantly or perseveringly to work, corrupt or vitiate or destroy oneself or one's own soul.
- **Derived forms:** حَرِّضِ (2) · حَرَض (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 4. Surah An-Nisa, Verse 84

- **Form in this verse:** وَحَرِّضِ — waḥarriḍi · "And encourage"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 2nd person, masculine, singular · imperative mood

فَقَاتِلْ ف۪ي سَب۪يلِ اللّٰهِۚ لَا تُكَلَّفُ اِلَّا نَفْسَكَ وَحَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَۚ عَسَى اللّٰهُ اَنْ يَكُفَّ بَأْسَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُواۜ وَاللّٰهُ اَشَدُّ بَأْساً وَاَشَدُّ تَنْك۪يلاً

Faqatil fee sabeeli Allahi latukallafu illa nafsaka waharridialmu/mineena AAasa Allahu an yakuffa ba/sa allatheenakafaroo wallahu ashaddu ba/san waashaddu tankeela

So fight thou in the cause of God; thou art not charged save with thyself. And rouse thou the believers: it may be that God will restrain the might of those who ignore warning; and God is stronger in might, and stronger in exemplary punishment.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nisa/verse-84.md_

### 8. Surah Al-Anfal, Verse 65

- **Form in this verse:** حَرِّضِ — ḥarriḍi · "Urge"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 2nd person, masculine, singular · imperative mood

يَٓا اَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ حَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ عَلَى الْقِتَالِۜ اِنْ يَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ عِشْرُونَ صَابِرُونَ يَغْلِبُوا مِائَتَيْنِۚ وَاِنْ يَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ مِائَةٌ يَغْلِبُٓوا اَلْفاً مِنَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا بِاَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ

Ya ayyuha annabiyyu harridialmu/mineena AAala alqitali in yakun minkumAAishroona sabiroona yaghliboo mi-atayni wa-in yakunminkum mi-atun yaghliboo alfan mina allatheena kafaroobi-annahum qawmun la yafqahoon

O Prophet: rouse thou the believers to fight: if there be of you twenty patient, they will defeat two hundred; and if there be of you a hundred, they will defeat a thousand of those who ignore warning, because they are people who understand not.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anfal/verse-65.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 85

- **Form in this verse:** حَرَضًا — ḥaraḍan · "fatally ill"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قَالُوا تَاللّٰهِ تَفْتَؤُ۬ا تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتّٰى تَكُونَ حَرَضاً اَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْهَالِك۪ينَ

Qaloo tallahi taftaotathkuru yoosufa hatta takoona haradanaw takoona mina alhalikeen

They said: “By God, thou wilt never cease remembering Joseph until thou art decrepit, or art of those who perish!”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-85.md_

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