Discover the meaning of the term Al-nṣb (نصب) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min read(In Persian: to set aside). A species of the species of declension (i'rab); its verification lies in raf'.
The thing, nasban: to set it up firmly. Against so-and-so: to oppose him. The thing or the matter upon so-and-so: to press it upon him persistently; one says: work beset him (nasabahu al-'amal), illness beset him, worry beset him. The man, nasban: toil. In a matter: striving, exertion; he is nasib and nasb. The thing: to raise it; to set it down (the contrary). So-and-so: to appoint him to a post.
With damma, from nasaba: plural ansab: the erected thing, such as a marker set at the bounds or the end of something.
Al-nasb: malady and tribulation; in the Quran: "Remember Our servant Job, when he called his Lord: Satan has afflicted me with distress (nusb) and punishment" (Sad 38:41). Al-nusub: a marker erected at a boundary or an end; plural: ansab. What was set up of stones around the Ka'ba in the age of ignorance, on which blood was poured and sacrifice offered to other than Allah; in the Quran: "O you who believe, wine, gambling, stone altars and divining arrows are but defilement from Satan's work: shun it, that you may prosper" (al-Ma'ida 5:90). Al-nasib: the share; plural: ansiba', ansiba and ansab; in the Quran: "For men a share of what parents and nearest kin leave, and for women a share of what parents and nearest kin leave, be it little or much, a decreed share" (al-Nisa' 4:7). Fortune. The basin. What is assigned.