Root

ر-س-ل

rsl·r-s-l

513 occurrences429 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَسُولrasūl332
أَرْسَلَarsala130
مُرْسَلmursal35
رِسالَةrisālah10
مُرْسِلmursil4
مُرْسِلَةmursilah1
مُرْسَلَةmursalah1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ر-س-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-س-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-س-ل occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 282 of 604 pages (47%)

Densest in juzʾ 28 (35 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 12 pages — pages 112, juzʾ 11.

Occurrences · 513 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ر-س-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-س-ل (rsl) occurs 513 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 429 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ر-س-ل occur?

429 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-س-ل (rsl), out of 513 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-س-ل?

ر-س-ل (rsl) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَسُول (rasūl, 332×), أَرْسَلَ (arsala, 130×), مُرْسَل (mursal, 35×), رِسالَة (risālah, 10×), and مُرْسِل (mursil, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.