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إِيمَانٌ

Root: امن

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إِيمَانٌ [Verbal.Noun of 4, q. v.
2 Used as a simple subst., Belief; particularly in God, and in his word and apostles &c.: faith: trust, or confidence: &c.]
3 Sometimes it means Prayer; syn. صَلَاةٌ: as in the Kur [ii. 138], where it is said, وَمَا كَانَ اللّٰهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيَمانَكُمْ, i. e. [God will not make to be lost] your prayer towards Jerusalem, as some explain it.
4 Sometimes, also, it is used as meaning The law brought by the Prophet.
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