Detailed Exegesis

Nukran (“reprehensible”): “Nukr” is a noun derived from “inkār” (denial), like “nafaqa” which is a noun from “infāq” (spending). “Nukr” is the opposite of knowledge and recognition. “Nakira al-amra nakīran wa ankarahu inkāran wa nukran” means “he did not recognize it.” Whatever tradition and reason, which are revealers of religious law, consider ugly and detestable and make forbidden, is called munkar and nukur. “Nukr” and “nukur” (also means a severe matter. “Nukran” is an adjective describing a severe matter.)(265)(264)