فَسَاد

fasaAdN * an inf. n. of 1: (S, M, A, &c.:) or a simple subst.: (Msb:) [as a subst. signifying] Badness, evilness, corruptness, unsoundness, wrongness, wrongfulness, impropriety, unrighteousness, wickedness, vitiousness, depravity, or dishonesty; the state of being devoid of virtue or efficacy; a corrupted, vitiated, perverted, marred, spoiled, deteriorated, or tainted, state; a state of disorder or disturbance, or of destruction, annihilation, consumption, waste, or ruin: (MA, KL, PS, &c.:) contr. of SalaAHN . (Lth, M, Msb.) And it is also [frequently used as a quasi-inf. n.] syn. with A_ifosaAdN [signifying The making, or rendering, bad, evil, corrupt, &c.: (see 4:) and, oftener, the acting ill, corruptly, wrong, wrongfully, improperly, unrighteously, wickedly, vitiously, or dishonestly; doing evil, or mischief; and creating, or exciting, disorder, disturbance, disagreement, discord, dissension, strife, or quarrelling ]: (L:) and [particularly] the taking property wrongfully. (O, K.) [Hence,] Harobu AlfasaAdi [ The war of evildoing ]: thus was termed a war that happened between [the two sub-tribes] banuw$k [in which the latter word is app. a mistranscription for $ibokK ] and gawov , of the tribe of TaY~i' : it was so termed because one party patched their sandals with the cars of the other, and one party drank wine out of the skulls of the other. (MF.) ― -b2- Also Drought, barrenness, dearth, or scarcity of good: (M, L, K:) so in the Kur [xxx. 40], Zahara A@lofasaAdu fiY Albar~i wa A@lobaHori i. e. Drought, &c., hath appeared in the land, and in the cities that are upon the rivers; (M, L, TA;) accord. to Zj; (M;) or accord. to Ez-Zejjájee. (L, TA.)