# Kef-Sin-Lam — كسل (ksl)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be lazy, idle, slothful, sluggish, listless, languid.
- **Derived forms:** كُسَالَىٰ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 4. Surah An-Nisa, Verse 142

- **Form in this verse:** كُسَالَىٰ — kusālā · "lazily"
  - **Grammar:** noun · accusative case

اِنَّ الْمُنَافِق۪ينَ يُخَادِعُونَ اللّٰهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْۚ وَاِذَا قَامُٓوا اِلَى الصَّلٰوةِ قَامُوا كُسَالٰىۙ يُرَٓاؤُ۫نَ النَّاسَ وَلَا يَذْكُرُونَ اللّٰهَ اِلَّا قَل۪يلاًۘ

Inna almunafiqeena yukhadiAAoonaAllaha wahuwa khadiAAuhum wa-itha qamooila assalati qamoo kusalayuraoona annasa wala yathkuroonaAllaha illa qaleela

The waverers seek to deceive God, but He is deceiving them; and when they rise up for the duty, they rise up to be seen of men, and remember not God save a little,

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nisa/verse-142.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 54

- **Form in this verse:** كُسَالَىٰ — kusālā · "(are) lazy"
  - **Grammar:** noun · nominative case

وَمَا مَنَعَهُمْ اَنْ تُقْبَلَ مِنْهُمْ نَفَقَاتُهُمْ اِلَّٓا اَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوا بِاللّٰهِ وَبِرَسُولِه۪ وَلَا يَأْتُونَ الصَّلٰوةَ اِلَّا وَهُمْ كُسَالٰى وَلَا يُنْفِقُونَ اِلَّا وَهُمْ كَارِهُونَ

Wama manaAAahum an tuqbala minhumnafaqatuhum illa annahum kafaroo billahiwabirasoolihi wala ya/toona assalatailla wahum kusala wala yunfiqoona illawahum karihoon

And there prevents their expenditures being accepted from them only that they denied God and His messenger, and come not to the duty save as idlers, and spend not save unwillingly.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-54.md_

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