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عَائِلًا - Aa'ilan -

أيلة 'ayla/'eela - poor, financially desperate.

'Aa/il - someone who is under alot of pressure and is being crushed
under that pressure.



عاذة - 'Aadha/a'oodhu - by itself means to cling onto someone for protection, out of fear of something which is unseen.

 
معاذ - Ma'aadh - a Place for Refuge.

Dangers that are
unseen.

Similar: Ijaarah - إجارة  - getting protection against an enemy which you can see.

عَرْشِ - 'Arsh = Roof. 'arasha / ya'shiru - to build a wooden roof.
This would be extremely expensive in the desert life a long time ago.


عبس- Abasa [verb]. from Uboos عبوس[noun] - (Frown: Bulging of forehead only due to annoyance.)
[mentioned in surah Abasa 80:1]


Similar words;
Qalaha قله - Grinding Teeth due to anger.
Basar
بسر - When the face becomes ugly due to Anger. [also see Surah Muddathir 74:22]
Basal بسل - The face made during extreme anger in war and fighting.




عِبْرَ - 'Ibra - comes from ‘uboor عبور , when you want to cross a river - ‘abrun nahr: ship croses the water.abrun ayn, means when you cry, the tear crossed your eye. ‘abra means a person who becomes so sad…

So it is a moral lesson with a sad ending which you can learn from i.e.
the lesson comes across your mind when you are in a similar situation.


إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰ
Indeed in that is a
warning for whoever would fear [Nazi'at 79:26]



 
مُعْتَدٍ -
  mu'tadin - I'tada اعتد  - violating someones rights. Wronging the people. A bully - one who crosses the limits.



عدل  - 'Adl justice - you do justice/fairness/balance, but you do it publically.


Similar to
;
قصت - Qistt - to be Fair/Just, in public and private.





عَدَلَكَ
'adalak - 'Adl - then Balanced you. (balanced you physically, spiritually, in justice, a religion focusing on worldly and the next life matters in a balanced way. Balance In everything.)



عدي/عدو - Adiy/ 'Aduw - to have Animosity.


This word implies someone
running forward in battle in animosity. They dont look left or right - they charge ahead, Aiming to attack the one in direct focus, ready to pillage and destroy the opposition.

'Aduw - an enemy who wishes to hurt you and wants to cause harm to you. He wants to defeat you. (i.e. In a battle - the opposite fighter attacking at you is an 'aduw).



بَيْنَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ كَانَ لِلْإِنسَانِ عَدُوًّا مُّبِينًا
Indeed Satan is ever, to mankind, a clear enemy ['aduw]. [Isra' 17:53]

[
mentioned in; surah Aadiyaat 100:1, ]



Similar words
;

2 more words for Animosity;
1 -
Bughdd بغض / baghdaa (mughbid) - Mubghid - bagheed - this is an 'aduw, but he has an additional feeling of anger and envy against you.
2 - Shana'aan شنعن / shaani' -
Shana'aan - one who has attribute of 'aduw and hatred [bughd], and third - he hides some of it but what he has inside of him is extreme anger against you.
He is
the worst enemy. This is known because even an enemy who celebrates at the death of your child is a enemy who hates you inside and out - a shaani'.

إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ
Indeed, your enemy (O Muhammad) is the one cut off. [Kawthar 108:3]




عَذَابَ - adhaab/azaab - adhab - when a person leaves eating due to severe dehydration. A person who dies a slow death due to dehydration. A torturous punishment.

adhaab
al akbar - the greatest punishment for the one who turned away from the reminder and denied it (kaf-far).

عزيز - Azeez - 'Izzah عزه  - Authority.

i.e.
Allah is Azeez - alone in the Authority and that Allah should be the One who legislates all the commands for His slaves.



عِهْنِ - 'ihn - wools of different textures.

[mentioned in
al Qari'ah 104:5]




عَسْعَسَ - 'Ass'Ass - when the evening is starting and ending. When the vision is blurry and the stars can't be seen.



عسر - 'usr - difficulty or time of difficulty.
Antonym; Yusr يسر  - really easy.



عَشِيَّ - 'Ashiyy - when the sun starts setting to maghrib time.

Antonym
;
ضحى Duhaa: the early morning to noon.



عاص - 'Aass - عصيان  isyaan is to disobey and refuse something that is good. Refuses something they know to be good. Perfectly appropriate for Firawn because he did not have any inclination to purify himself so when he sees something good he refuses it.


Similar words
;

Fisq فسق : to abandon a path that was good. Someone who walked the good path and then abandoned it.

Fujoor فجور : lit to tear something wide open. Not only disobeys but is proud of his disobedience and shameless in their sins and relentless in their disbelief.




عَصْفٍ - Asf - 'Aasif - winds which blow and cut off crumpled up leaves.

Reeh al 'Aasif
ريح الاسف - which blows leaves in the air.

'Asf also refers to straws which fly in the air.

[mentioned in surah Feel 105:5]



عَصْرِ - 'Asr - time that is running out. 'Asr is a time associated with Urgency.

Our life is a
time of Emergency. The sunset of our life is passing by. The ending of our day/life is coming soon.

[mentioned in surah 'Asr 103:1]



معصراة - Mu'siraat A’saara or I’saar is to squeeze.

One opinion is that the wind is squeezing the clouds, then the clouds drip rain. It is also used for the clouds full of so much water that they drip rain.
[mentioned in Naba' 78:14]








- 'Ataa - [something small] to come/arrive/reach to you.] عطاء

It also holds the meaning of
'to give' - because when you give, it comes to the other person.


Similar to
:
- Jaa' [something big] to come/to arrive/reach to you.جَاءَ
I.e. big gift coming to you would be Jaa'a, small gift coming to you would be 'Ataa.



- 'Attila - to become useless / to not be taken care of. عطل

The polytheist Arabs - before Islam - would call
a woman 'attalah  عطله  if she did not wear alot of jewellery.
It implied that
she is useless unless she is beautified for the people." This is the mindset of the people of ignorance.

mu'attal
معطل  - someone who has been taken off his job. He is useless now.







عظم 
=
- Adhm is a bone, which is tough and strong. It is difficult to break. [Plural; Idhaam عظام ]


When someone hits you with their body, i.e. a punch - the only way you recieve intense pain is if a tough bone hits you.

Adheem
عظيم
  means - Extremely Strong and Tough.



عَقَبَةَ
- 'Aqabah - a path going up a mountain range. EXCEPT it is a path which is very difficult to climb. It is steep.


Similar words;
نجد
- najd - wide path, clear of vegetation, heading up a mountain. Najd - a mountain which is bare rock with no vegetation or plants. A clear path that is leading uphill.
طُورِ
- Toor - Mountain - which is lush, full of trees, green kind of mountain.
Jabl
جبل - general word for Mountain.


عقد
- 'Aqd - strongly tied Knot.
The word 'Aqeedah
عقيده  comes from this because we are tied strongly to our beliefs.



عَقَرُ
- aqar - aqara - stab the camel a little (poking it continuously) or to chop the bottom parts of its limbs off so it can't move around and gradually dies to death.

qalb al aqoor - dog bites you and causes you to bleed.


فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا
But they denied him and
stabbed/cut her. So their Lord brought down upon them destruction for their sin and made it equal. [Shams 91:14]





عَالَمِينَ
- 'Aalameen - nations of; jinn, angels, men - all beings with an Intellect.



عَلَق
- 'Alaq - 'aliqa - to cling and to hang off.

The sperm reaches the egg, and hangs off it. This is studied in modern embryology, and was not known at the time of Allah's Messenger in such detail.

'alaq - a clot of blood, more literally a piece of wet sticky fluid which hangs off something.



Like mu
'allaqa - that which hangs off.

mu'allaqaat
- this was the title for famous poems which were written, and hung off [mu'allaq] the Ka'ba by the pre-Islamic Arabs.

That term is also used
for marriage, when the husband has a wife but he isn't treating her fully like a wife. So she is stuck to the husband, but left Hanging on in the marriage.


على
- 'Alaa - Upon / on top of.

أَعْلَىٰ - A'laa - Highest [Most High]




عِلِّيِّينَ
- 'Illiyeen - 'uluwعلو  - height.




عمَلْ
- 'Aml - Do an Action with Intent.

To do an action based on Intent. An action you do with intent/with conscience. Ie. Your intended actions/deeds; Eating, Watching with focused intent, hearing with focused intent, reading etc.

[Similar words; فعل - Fi'l- to do any action without intent. , ]



عِنَبًا
- 'inaba - grapes.

[mentioned in Abasa 80:28]



عند
-'And / 'Ind - Near/with. i.e. 'Indee [I have (in my possession / with me...)



عِيدُ
- 'Eed - Something which is Repeated.

I.e. the celebration of 'Eid is done twice every year.

Similarly, Allah creates the creation, causes it to die, and brings it back to life again [yu'eed].



عِيشَةٍ
- 'eesha (commonly translated as 'life) - 'aysh - have a life with no worry of food or shelter.

You are not dependant, The necessities are not needed because you have everything.
(in Urdu, to do 'Eysh' is to 'live a life free of worry' - and it comes from this Arabic word 'Eesha.)

eesha - no worries, a life free of concern.

This life is also used to describe animals in jungles and forests because there is no lack of food (prey) or shelter there for them. It comes in plenty.




Similar words
;
Hayat حياة
  - also means life, but 'eesha is an easy life with no problems.

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ. فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds], He will be in a easy, pleasant life. [al Qari'ah 101:6-7]


عَيْن

Ayn
- used for beautiful and good things:

-
A Water spring gushing out with water is beautiful (especially for the Arab who lives in the dry desert.)

- The eye - sheds a tear (moist).

- Anything that looks good - the arab would call it Ayn.

- The arabs would call horses -
ayn in their poetry.

- Even al hoor ul
'Ayn [the women of Paradise] are called that because they are beautiful to look at.

The word
'ayn usually has a very positive meaning, so you would think that there is something good now for the people of Paradise to drink from.




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