Discover the meaning of the word To get carried away / Ardor (جمح) in the Quran, with 1 verse in which it appears, and a detailed explanation from Al-Raghib al-Asfahani's Mufradat fi gharib al-Qur'an.
Updated on 29 May 2026 at 7:00 AM
📖 1 min readAllah says: 'And they rush (yajmahûn)' (At-Tawba: 57).
Al-jamûh originally refers to the horse that bolts and escapes its rider.
The meaning is: they run toward shelters with uncontrollable haste, fleeing combat like a runaway horse.
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