نصب

Core meaning

To fix in place: the portion assigned to each, the marker or mountain set up, the fatigue that settles in the body.

Uses

1. نَصِيب → "portion" : what is assigned and fixed to each: of the inheritance, of what one has earned, of the Scripture.

   • «لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌۭ مِّمَّا ٱكْتَسَبُوا۟» — "To men a portion of what they have earned" (4:32)
   • «نَصِيبًۭا مَّفْرُوضًۭا» — "a fixed portion" (4:7)

2. نُصِبَتْ, نُصُب → "set up", "an erected marker" : what is set up and stands in place.

   • «وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ» — "And at the mountains, how they were set up?" (88:19)
   • «كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍۢ يُوفِضُونَ» — "as if racing toward an erected marker" (70:43)

3. ٱلنُّصُب, ٱلْأَنصَاب → "slaughtered in common", "common goods" : what is set in place to be shared out by lot.

   • «وَٱلْمَيْسِرُ وَٱلْأَنصَابُ وَٱلْأَزْلَٰمُ» — "as well as the sharing by lot of common goods" (5:90)

4. نَصَب, نُصْب, نَاصِبَة → "fatigue", "exhausted" : fatigue that settles in the body.

   • «لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌۭ» — "No fatigue will touch them therein" (15:48)
   • «لَقَدْ لَقِينَا مِن سَفَرِنَا هَٰذَا نَصَبًۭا» — "we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue" (18:62)

5. ٱنصَبْ → "direct your effort" : to hold one's effort upright, once freed.

   • «فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ» — "As soon as you are freed, direct your effort" (94:7)

Evidence from the text

The portion is fixed to someone: to men and women in what the parents leave, "whether little or much" (4:7); to each, of what he has earned (4:32); and the Diverter claims his own among the obedient (4:118). It is also said of the Scripture, of which some have received only a portion (3:23, 4:44, 4:51).

The same gesture sets up the mountain (88:19) and the marker toward which people race on leaving the sepulchres (70:43). Fatigue is what settles in the body at the end of the journey (18:62), and from which the Garden is free (15:48, 35:35). In 94:7, the order to direct one's effort applies the gesture to the messenger's impulse.

Distinctions

• حظظ — the share: what falls to each, counted or let go; نَصِيب is the portion assigned and fixed.

See also

فرض (to fix in advance: نَصِيبًا مَّفْرُوضًا (4:7))