سحر
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Forme attestate : سِحْرٌۭ 12 · ٱلسَّحَرَةُ 7 · ٱلسِّحْرَ 4 · بِٱلْأَسْحَارِ 2 · لَسَٰحِرٌ 2 · سَٰحِرٍ 2 · مَّسْحُورًا 2 · ٱلسَّاحِرُ 2
Core meaning
To make one see something other than what is: illusion, and the one who produces it. The same word also names the last hours of the night, when darkness comes undone before day has come.
Uses
ٱلسِّحْر, سِحْر → "illusion" : the artifice that deceives the eye; it is also the word by which those who disown reject the message.
سَاحِر, ٱلسَّحَرَة → "worker of illusion" : the one who produces illusion; the charge laid against every messenger.
مَسْحُور, ٱلْمُسَحَّرِين → "abused by illusion" : one said to be deceived by illusion.
- «إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًۭا مَّسْحُورًا» — "You follow none but a man abused by illusion" (25:8)
سَحَرَ → "to beguile" : to beguile someone by illusion.
- «لِّتَسْحَرَنَا بِهَا» — "to beguile us with it" (7:132)
ٱلْأَسْحَار, سَحَر → "before dawn", "the last hours of the night" : the moment of the night when forgiveness is implored, and when Lut and his own are saved.
Evidence from the text
The account of Moussa shows what illusion does: the ropes and staffs thrown seem alive, and Moussa's staff "snapped up what they distorted" (26:45). What is seen is not what is.
That is why the word serves as an accusation. The message is called "a manifest illusion" (10:76), the messenger "a worker of illusion" (51:52), or "a man abused by illusion" (25:8); and Moussa turns the reproach back: "What you have brought is illusion" (10:81).
The three temporal uses (3:17, 51:18, 54:34) name a moment of the night, that of the plea for forgiveness and of rescue; they carry no idea of deceit.
Distinctions
- خيل — to make imagine: the effect on the one who looks, whereas سِحْر is the artifice that produces it
See also
لقف (to snap up) · جنن (the deranged)