# Ha-Ye-Fe — حيف (Hyf)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be unjust, act unjustly/wrongfully/tyrannically, to incline to that which is wrong or decline from that which is right, to take a thing from the side, diminish a thing from the side, decline from the right direction.
- **Derived forms:** يَحِيفَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 24. Surah An-Nur, Verse 50

- **Form in this verse:** يَحِيفَ — yaḥīfa · "Allah will be unjust"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

اَف۪ي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ اَمِ ارْتَابُٓوا اَمْ يَخَافُونَ اَنْ يَح۪يفَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَرَسُولُهُۜ بَلْ اُو۬لٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ۟

Afee quloobihim maradun ami irtabooam yakhafoona an yaheefa Allahu AAalayhimwarasooluhu bal ola-ika humu aththalimoon

Is there in their hearts a disease? If they doubt, or fear that God would deal unjustly with them — or would His messenger: — nay, it is they who are the wrongdoers.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nur/verse-50.md_

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