أَسْفَلُ

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أَسْفَلُ Lower, and lowest; contr. of أَعْلَى fem. سُفْلَى: and pl. أَسَافِلُ. One says, صَارَأَسْفَلَ مِنْ غَيْرِهِ [He, or it, became lower than another]. And it is said in the Kur [viii. 43], وٱلرَّكْبُ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ The caravan being in a place lower than ye; اسفل being here an adv. n.: or, as some read, أَسْفَلُ مِنْكُمْ, i. e. being lower than ye.
2 ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ , in the Kur [xcv. 5], means [Then we rendered him the lowest of low: or] we reduced him to extreme old age, or decrepitude: or to a state of perishing, or passing away: or to a state of error; relating to him who has disbelieved; for every infant is born of the natural constitution with which he is created in his mother's womb, and he who disbelieves and errs is reduced to this state: or the meaning is, we have made him to be of the people of the fire [of Hell]: or [we have made him to go down] to the fire [of Hell].
3 سُفْلَي مُضَرَ [The lower of Mudar] is said to denote those of Mudar with the exception of Kureysh and Keys: opposed to عُلْيَامُضَرَ. (TA in art. علو.)
4 See also سُفْلٌ.
5 The pl. أَسَافِلُ means The lower, or lowest, parts of valleys [&c.]. The phrase كِلَابُ الأَسَافِلِ occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb as meaning [The dogs] of the lower, or lowest, parts of the valleys.
6 And The young ones of camels.

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