# Za-Kh-Ra-Fe — زخرف (zxrf)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** The adorning/decorating/embellishing/ornamenting a thing, anything embellished or varnished with a false colouring, lies, falsifying/adulterating of speech.
- **Derived forms:** زُخْرُف (4)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 112

- **Form in this verse:** زُخْرُفَ — zukh'rufa · "(with) decorative"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَكَذٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُواًّ شَيَاط۪ينَ الْاِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ يُوح۪ي بَعْضُهُمْ اِلٰى بَعْضٍ زُخْرُفَ الْقَوْلِ غُرُوراًۜ وَلَوْ شَٓاءَ رَبُّكَ مَا فَعَلُوهُ فَذَرْهُمْ وَمَا يَفْتَرُونَ

Wakathalika jaAAalna likullinabiyyin AAaduwwan shayateena al-insi waljinni yooheebaAAduhum ila baAAdin zukhrufa alqawlighurooran walaw shaa rabbuka ma faAAaloohu fatharhumwama yaftaroon

And thus have We appointed for every prophet an enemy — satans of servi and domini — instructing one another in the decoration of speech as delusion, (and had thy Lord willed, they would not have done it; so leave thou them and what they fabricate)

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-112.md_

### 10. Surah Yunus, Verse 24

- **Form in this verse:** زُخْرُفَهَا — zukh'rufahā · "its adornment"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

اِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَٓاءٍ اَنْزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِه۪ نَبَاتُ الْاَرْضِ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ النَّاسُ وَالْاَنْعَامُۜ حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَخَذَتِ الْاَرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا وَازَّيَّـنَتْ وَظَنَّ اَهْلُهَٓا اَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَٓاۙ اَتٰيهَٓا اَمْرُنَا لَيْلاً اَوْ نَهَاراً فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَص۪يداً كَاَنْ لَمْ تَغْنَ بِالْاَمْسِۜ  كَذٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْاٰيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Innama mathalu alhayatiaddunya kama-in anzalnahu mina assama-ifakhtalata bihi nabatu al-ardi mimmaya/kulu annasu wal-anAAamu hattaitha akhathati al-ardu zukhrufaha wazzayyanatwathanna ahluha annahum qadiroonaAAalayha ataha amruna laylan aw naharanfajaAAalnaha haseedan kaan lam taghnabil-amsi kathalika nufassilu al-ayatiliqawmin yatafakkaroon

The likeness of the life of this world is but like water We send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth mingle with it, whereof men and cattle eat: when the earth has taken her decoration, and is made fair, and its people think they have power over it, Our command comes by night or by day, and We make it reaped as if it had not flourished the day before — thus do We set out and detail the proofs for people who reflect.

_https://quran.so/surah-yunus/verse-24.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 93

- **Form in this verse:** زُخْرُفٍ — zukh'rufin · "ornament"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اَوْ يَكُونَ لَكَ بَيْتٌ مِنْ زُخْرُفٍ اَوْ تَرْقٰى فِي السَّمَٓاءِۜ وَلَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لِرُقِيِّكَ حَتّٰى تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا كِتَاباً نَقْرَؤُ۬هُۜ قُلْ سُبْحَانَ رَبّ۪ي هَلْ كُنْتُ اِلَّا بَشَراً رَسُولاً۟

Aw yakoona laka baytun min zukhrufin aw tarqafee assama-i walan nu/mina liruqiyyika hattatunazzila AAalayna kitaban naqraohu qul subhanarabbee hal kuntu illa basharan rasoola

“Or thou have a house of finery, or thou ascend into the sky; and we will not believe thy ascension until thou bring down upon us a writ we may read.” Say thou: “Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything save a mortal messenger!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-93.md_

### 43. Surah Az-Zukhruf, Verse 35

- **Form in this verse:** وَزُخْرُفًۭا ۚ — wazukh'rufan · "And ornaments of gold"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَزُخْرُفاًۜ وَاِنْ كُلُّ ذٰلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَاعُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاۜ وَالْاٰخِرَةُ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُتَّق۪ينَ۟

Wazukhrufan wa-in kullu thalika lammamataAAu alhayati addunya wal-akhiratuAAinda rabbika lilmuttaqeen

And ornaments of gold. But all that is but the enjoyment of the life of this world; and the Hereafter with your Lord is for those of prudent fear.

_https://quran.so/surah-az-zukhruf/verse-35.md_

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