# Ha-Sin-Sin — حسس (Hss)

> Occurs in 6 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To slaughter, extirpate, destroy, kill, make one's perceiving powers dead, rout, make one's sound or motion to cease, trod and despise someone or a people, devour, blast or burn, carry or remove or shake off, to be tender or compassionate towards someone (lit., to feel for someone), lament for someone, perceive or become sensible of something, know a thing by means of any of the senses, ascertain a thing, know a thing certainly, to be certain or sure of something, to listen, to seek repeatedly/time after time to know a thing, ask or inquire after news or tidings of something, inquire or seek for information about something or someone, to be pulled out or up or off, to be eradicated or displaced, fall out or come out, fall continuously/by degrees/one part after another, break into pieces.
- **Derived forms:** أَحَسَّ (3) · تَحُسُّ (1) · تَحَسَّسُ (1) · حَسِيس (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 52

- **Form in this verse:** أَحَسَّ — aḥassa · "perceived"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

فَلَمَّٓا اَحَسَّ ع۪يسٰى مِنْهُمُ الْكُفْرَ قَالَ مَنْ اَنْصَار۪ٓي اِلَى اللّٰهِۜ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ اَنْصَارُ اللّٰهِۚ اٰمَنَّا بِاللّٰهِۚ وَاشْهَدْ بِاَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ

Falamma ahassa AAeesaminhumu alkufra qala man ansaree ila Allahiqala alhawariyyoona nahnu ansaruAllahi amanna billahi washhadbi-anna muslimoon

But when Jesus perceived their denial, he said: “Who are my helpers for God?” The disciples said: “We are the helpers of God; we believe in God; and bear thou witness that we are submitting.”

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-52.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 152

- **Form in this verse:** تَحُسُّونَهُم — taḥussūnahum · "you were killing them"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَلَقَدْ صَدَقَكُمُ اللّٰهُ وَعْدَهُٓ اِذْ تَحُسُّونَهُمْ بِاِذْنِه۪ۚ حَتّٰٓى اِذَا فَشِلْتُمْ وَتَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي الْاَمْرِ وَعَصَيْتُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَٓا اَرٰيكُمْ مَا تُحِبُّونَۜ مِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُر۪يدُ الدُّنْيَا وَمِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُر۪يدُ الْاٰخِرَةَۚ ثُمَّ صَرَفَكُمْ عَنْهُمْ لِيَبْتَلِيَكُمْۚ وَلَقَدْ عَفَا عَنْكُمْۜ وَاللّٰهُ ذُوفَضْلٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ

Walaqad sadaqakumu AllahuwaAAdahu ith tahussoonahum bi-ithnihi hattaitha fashiltum watanazaAAtum fee al-amri waAAasaytummin baAAdi ma arakum ma tuhibboonaminkum man yureedu addunya waminkum man yureedual-akhirata thumma sarafakum AAanhum liyabtaliyakumwalaqad AAafa AAankum wallahu thoofadlin AAala almu/mineen

And God was indeed true in His promise to you. When you were aware of them by His leave, when you had lost heart and disputed concerning the affair, and rebelled after He had shown you what you love[...]. Among you is he who desires the World; and among you is he who desires the Hereafter. Then He turned you away from them that He might try you; and He has pardoned you; and God is bountiful to the believers.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-152.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 87

- **Form in this verse:** فَتَحَسَّسُوا۟ — fataḥassasū · "and inquire"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tefa'ul · 2nd person, masculine, plural · imperative mood

يَا بَنِيَّ اذْهَبُوا فَتَحَسَّسُوا مِنْ يُوسُفَ وَاَخ۪يهِ وَلَا تَايْـَٔسُوا مِنْ رَوْحِ اللّٰهِۜ اِنَّهُ لَا يَايْـَٔسُ مِنْ رَوْحِ اللّٰهِ اِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْكَافِرُونَ

Ya baniyya ithhaboo fatahassasoomin yoosufa waakheehi wala tay-asoo min rawhi Allahiinnahu la yay-asu min rawhi Allahi illaalqawmu alkafiroon

“O my sons: go and ask about Joseph and his brother, and despair not of the comfort of God; none despairs of the comfort of God save the unbelieving people.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-87.md_

### 19. Surah Maryam, Verse 98

- **Form in this verse:** تُحِسُّ — tuḥissu · "you perceive"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 2nd person, masculine, singular · present tense

وَكَمْ اَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِنْ قَرْنٍۜ هَلْ تُحِسُّ مِنْهُمْ مِنْ اَحَدٍ اَوْ تَسْمَعُ لَهُمْ رِكْزاً

Wakam ahlakna qablahum min qarnin haltuhissu minhum min ahadin aw tasmaAAu lahum rikza

And how many a generation We destroyed before them! Perceivest thou any one of them, or hearest thou from them a sound?

_https://quran.so/surah-maryam/verse-98.md_

### 21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** أَحَسُّوا۟ — aḥassū · "they perceived"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

فَلَمَّٓا اَحَسُّوا بَأْسَنَٓا اِذَا هُمْ مِنْهَا يَرْكُضُونَۜ

Falamma ahassoo ba/sanaitha hum minha yarkudoon

And when they perceived Our might, then did they flee from it.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anbiya/verse-12.md_

### 21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 102

- **Form in this verse:** حَسِيسَهَا ۖ — ḥasīsahā · "(the) slightest sound of it"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

لَا يَسْمَعُونَ حَس۪يسَهَاۚ وَهُمْ ف۪ي مَا اشْتَهَتْ اَنْفُسُهُمْ خَالِدُونَۚ

La yasmaAAoona haseesahawahum fee ma ishtahat anfusuhum khalidoon

They hear not a whisper thereof; and they in what their souls desired abide eternally.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anbiya/verse-102.md_

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