The Sickly Quran?
- philhoraia
- Sep 25, 2025
- 1 min read
It was narrated from Ibn Buraidah that his father told that the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said:
"The Quran will come on the Day of Resurrection, like a pale man, and will say: 'I am the one that kept you awake at night and made you thirsty during the day."
Some see in 'pale' a reference to quran's skin colour. But let's look at some definitions.
Adjective
شَاحِب • (šāḥib) (feminine شَاحِبَة (šāḥiba), masculine plural شَوَاحِب (šawāḥib), elative أَشْحَب (ʔašḥab))
شاحِب ( اسم ) :- باهِت
- ash-colored; dull; faded; ill; lusterless; pale; pallid; sallow; sober; unhealthy; wan; slightly pale; pale; lacking luster
- indistinct, pale, dim; quiet; not clearly perceived
- lacking movement, vitality, consciousness
- losing colour, faint, pale
- not very exciting, impressive, lustrous
- of a dull brownish colour; pale
- having little colour
المختصر
شَاحِب
- blanch (adj); cadaverous (adj); dim (adj); drab (adj); dull (adj); dulness (adj); faded (adj); faint (adj); lackluster (adj); lusterless (adj); peaked (adj); sallow (adj); wan (adj)
المختصر
شاحب
- anemic; Ashen; blank; bloodless; colorless; faintish; ghastly; haggard; livid (adj); mealy; palid; palier; paliest; palish; pallid; paly; pasty; peakier; peakiest; peaky (adj); Sapless; sick (adj); sickly (adj); washy; waxen; white; whitelivered; yellow
المختصر
Might it come unwell, sickly, diseased?
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