مكو

Core meaning

Tumult: agitation taking the place of recollection.

Uses

1. مُكَآءًۭ → "a tumult" : the Contact turned into agitation near the House.

   • «إِلَّا مُكَآءًۭ وَتَصْدِيَةًۭ» — "was nothing but a tumult and a barring." (8:35)

Evidence from the text

The word occurs only in 8:35. It qualifies the Contact of those who disown, near the House, and it is joined to تَصْدِيَة, connected with ص د د, to bar: in the next verse, the same people spend their goods "so as to bar from the way of God" (8:36). Their Contact was thus nothing but a tumult, joined to a barring. The skeleton of the ancient manuscripts, مكا, without hamza, also reads مَكًّا, from the root م ك ك (sheet مكة); the translation follows this reading, outside the transmitted readings.

See also

صدى (the barring, joined in the same verse) · مكة (the tumult, 48:24)