# Ha-Ye-Ra — حير (Hyr)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be astonished, bewildered, dazzled, perplexed/confounded, to err or lose one's way, to be collected (said of water), to stay, go round about, go to an fro or fluctuate, transmit food to the stomach, (said of a cloud) to continue without motion, pour forth its rain, not be driven by the wind, become full of something, to flow through, to fill or occupy.
- **Derived forms:** حَيْرَان (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 71

- **Form in this verse:** حَيْرَانَ — ḥayrāna · "confused"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

قُلْ اَنَدْعُوا مِنْ دُونِ اللّٰهِ مَا لَا يَنْفَعُنَا وَلَا يَضُرُّنَا وَنُرَدُّ عَلٰٓى اَعْقَابِنَا بَعْدَ اِذْ هَدٰينَا اللّٰهُ كَالَّذِي اسْتَهْوَتْهُ الشَّيَاط۪ينُ فِي الْاَرْضِ حَيْرَانَۖ لَهُٓ اَصْحَابٌ يَدْعُونَهُٓ اِلَى الْهُدَى ائْتِنَاۜ قُلْ اِنَّ هُدَى اللّٰهِ هُوَ الْهُدٰىۜ وَاُمِرْنَا لِنُسْلِمَ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَم۪ينَۙ

Qul anadAAoo min dooni Allahi mala yanfaAAuna wala yadurrunawanuraddu AAala aAAqabina baAAda ithhadana Allahu kallathee istahwat-huashshayateenu fee al-ardi hayranalahu as-habun yadAAoonahu ila alhudai/tina qul inna huda Allahi huwa alhudawaomirna linuslima lirabbi alAAalameen

Say thou: “Shall we call, rather than to God, to what neither profits us nor harms us, and be turned back on our heels after God has guided us? — like one whom the satans seduce in the earth, lost in confusion, he having companions inviting him to guidance: ‘Come thou to us!’” Say thou: “The guidance of God, that is guidance; and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of All Creation”;

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-71.md_

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