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اقرضهُ

Root: قرض

Form: 4

Full Definition

اقرضهُIV He cut off for him a portion, to be requited, or compensated, for it. [And hence,] He gave him, or granted him, a قَرْض [or loan, or the like]; and signifies the same as اقرضهُ. You say also, اقرضهُ المَالَ, وَغَيْرَهُ, [He lent him the property, &c.;] he gave him the property, &c., as a قَرْض; he gave him the property, [&c.,] to demand its return. It is said in the Kur, [lxxiii. 20,] وَأَقْرِضُوا ٱللّٰهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا [lit. And lend ye to God a good loan; meaning give ye to God good service for which to be requited]: it is not here said إِقْرَاضًا because the simple subst. [as distinguished from the Verbal.Noun] is what is meant. And again, in the same, [ii. 246, and lvii. 11,] مَنْ ذَا ٱلَّذِى يُقْرِضُ ٱللّٰهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا, meaning, accord. to Aboo-Is-hák the Grammarian, [Who is he who will offer unto God] a good action or gift, or anything for which a requital may be sought? or, as Akh says, Who will do a good action by following and obeying the command of God? The Arabs say, قَدْ أَقْرَضْتَنِى قَرْضًا حَسَنًا Thou hast done to me a good deed [which I am bound to requite]. And it is said in a trad., أَقْرِضٌ عِرْضَكَ لِيَوْمِ فَقْرِكَ [Lend thou thine honour for the day of thy poverty]; meaning, when a man defames thee, do not thou requite him, but reserve his recompense undiminished for thee, as a loan for the payment of which he is responsible, that thou mayest receive it from him in the day of thy need thereof: [but see عِرْضٌ.]
2 [And hence,] أَقْرَضَنِى الشَّىْءَ He gave, or paid, to me the thing.

def.2 مَا عَلَيْهِ مَا يُقْرِضُ عَنْهُ العُيُونَ فَيَسْتُرُهُ [There is not upon him what will turn aside, or away, from him the eyes, and cover him].

def.3 See alse 1, latter half.
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