أَمينٌ

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أَمينٌ Trusted; trusted in; confided in; as also أُمَّانٌ ; i. q. مَأْمُونٌ and مُؤْتَمَنٌ : [a person in whom one trusts or confides; a confidant; a person intrusted with, or to whom is confided, power, authority, control, or a charge, عَلَى شَىْءٍ over a thing; a person intrusted with an affair, or with affairs, i. e., with the management, or disposal, thereof; a confidential agent, or superintendent; a commissioner; a commissary; a trustee; a depositary;] a guardian: trusty; trustworthy; trustful; confidential; faithful: pl. أُمَنَآءُ, and, accord. to some, , as in a trad. in which it is said, أَصْحَابِى أَمَنَةٌ لِأُمَّتِى, meaning My companions are guardians to my people: or, accord. to others, this is pl. of آمِنٌ [app. in a sense mentioned below in this paragraph, so that the meaning in this trad. is my companions are persons who accord trust, or confidence, to my people]. Hence, أَلَمْ تَعْلَمِى يَا أَسْمَ وَيْحَكِ أَنَّنِى حَلَفْتُ يَمِينًا لَا أَخُونُ أَمِينِى [Knowest thou not, O Asmà (أَسْمَآء, curtailed for the sake of the metre), mercy on thee! or woe to thee! that I have sworn an oath that I will not act treacherously to him in whom I trust?] i. e. : or the meaning here is, him who trusts, or confides, in me; [i. e.] it is here syn. with . [Hence also,] الأَمِينُ فِى القِمَارِ, (K voce مُجُمِدٌ, &c.,) or أَمِينُ, القِمَارِ, [The person who is intrusted, as deputy, with the disposal of the arrows in the game called المَيْسِر; or] he who shuffles the arrows; الَّذِى. يَضْرِبُ بِالقِدَاحِ. [Hence also,] الرُّوحُ الأَمِينُ [The Trusted, or Trusty, Spirit]; applied to Gabriel, because he is intrusted with the revelation of God. أُمَّانٌ , mentioned above, and occurring in a verse of El-Aashà, applied to a merchant, is said by some to mean Possessed of religion and excellence. مُؤْتَمَنٌ is applied, in a trad., to the مُؤَذِّن, as meaning that men trust, or confide, in him with respect to the times in which he calls to prayer, and know by his call what they are commanded to do as to praying and fasting and breaking fast. هُوَ المُعَامَلَةِ means He is [trusty, or trustworthy, in dealing with others; or] free from exorbitance and deceit or artifice or craft to be feared.
2 An aid, or assistant; syn. عَوْنٌ [here app. meaning, as it often does, an armed attendant, or a guard]; because one trusts in his strength, and is without fear of his being weak.
3 The strong; syn. قَوِىٌّ. (K, TA: [in the latter of which is given the same reason for this signification as is given in the M for that of عون; for which قوى may be a mistranscription; but see أَمُونٌ.])
4 One who trusts, or confides, in another; [as also آمِنٌ , of which see an ex. voce حَذِرٌ;] so accord. to ISk in the verse cited above in this paragraph: thus it bears two contr. significations.
5 See also آمِنٌ, in five places.

def.2 And see آمِينَ.

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