# Mim-Za-Kaf — مزق (mzq)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To scatter or disperse, mangle/rent much/dissunder, shatter/disorganize/dissipate, to mar or impair, tear or cut much, to slit a thing.
- **Derived forms:** مُزِّقْ (2) · مُمَزَّق (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 34. Surah Saba, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** مُزِّقْتُمْ — muzziq'tum · "you have disintegrated"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · passive · 2nd person, masculine, plural · past tense

وَقَالَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا هَلْ نَدُلُّكُمْ عَلٰى رَجُلٍ يُنَبِّئُكُمْ اِذَا مُزِّقْتُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍۙ اِنَّكُمْ لَف۪ي خَلْقٍ جَد۪يدٍۚ

Waqala allatheena kafaroo halnadullukum AAala rajulin yunabbi-okum ithamuzziqtum kulla mumazzaqin innakum lafee khalqin jadeed

And those who ignore warning say: “Shall we direct you to a man who informs you that when you are scattered utterly, you will be in a new creation?

_https://quran.so/surah-saba/verse-7.md_

### 34. Surah Saba, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** مُمَزَّقٍ — mumazzaqin · "disintegration"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tef'il · passive · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

وَقَالَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا هَلْ نَدُلُّكُمْ عَلٰى رَجُلٍ يُنَبِّئُكُمْ اِذَا مُزِّقْتُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍۙ اِنَّكُمْ لَف۪ي خَلْقٍ جَد۪يدٍۚ

Waqala allatheena kafaroo halnadullukum AAala rajulin yunabbi-okum ithamuzziqtum kulla mumazzaqin innakum lafee khalqin jadeed

And those who ignore warning say: “Shall we direct you to a man who informs you that when you are scattered utterly, you will be in a new creation?

_https://quran.so/surah-saba/verse-7.md_

### 34. Surah Saba, Verse 19

- **Form in this verse:** وَمَزَّقْنَـٰهُمْ — wamazzaqnāhum · "and We dispersed them"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 1st person, plural · past tense

فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا بَاعِدْ بَيْنَ اَسْفَارِنَا وَظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ فَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ اَحَاد۪يثَ وَمَزَّقْنَاهُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍۜ اِنَّ ف۪ي ذٰلِكَ لَاٰيَاتٍ لِكُلِّ صَبَّارٍ شَكُورٍ

Faqaloo rabbana baAAidbayna asfarina wathalamoo anfusahumfajaAAalnahum ahadeetha wamazzaqnahum kullamumazzaqin inna fee thalika laayatin likullisabbarin shakoor

But they said: “Long has our Lord made the distance between our journeys”; and they wronged their souls, and We made them tales told, and scattered them utterly. In that are proofs for everyone patient and grateful.

_https://quran.so/surah-saba/verse-19.md_

### 34. Surah Saba, Verse 19

- **Form in this verse:** مُمَزَّقٍ ۚ — mumazzaqin · "dispersion"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tef'il · passive · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا بَاعِدْ بَيْنَ اَسْفَارِنَا وَظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ فَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ اَحَاد۪يثَ وَمَزَّقْنَاهُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍۜ اِنَّ ف۪ي ذٰلِكَ لَاٰيَاتٍ لِكُلِّ صَبَّارٍ شَكُورٍ

Faqaloo rabbana baAAidbayna asfarina wathalamoo anfusahumfajaAAalnahum ahadeetha wamazzaqnahum kullamumazzaqin inna fee thalika laayatin likullisabbarin shakoor

But they said: “Long has our Lord made the distance between our journeys”; and they wronged their souls, and We made them tales told, and scattered them utterly. In that are proofs for everyone patient and grateful.

_https://quran.so/surah-saba/verse-19.md_

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