h-j-b

Description

The Arabic root ح-ج-ب (h-j-b) carries the core meaning of concealment, separation, or blocking one thing from another, whether physical or metaphorical. In the Quran, it appears in contexts describing barriers between people and divine realities, such as veils that prevent direct perception of God, partitions separating believers from disbelievers in the afterlife, and screens that conceal or protect. This root emphasizes themes of hiddenness, separation between different states of existence, and the limitations of human perception in accessing the unseen realm.