الأَسْجَاد
Root: سجد
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الأَسْجَاد
, or الإِسْجَاد, thus some relate it, with kesr to the ء, in the saying of El-Aswad Ibn-Yaafur.
[Of the wine of one with earrings, having a nasal twang, girded with a waist-belt, i. e., of a foreigner: he brought it for what are termed دراهم الاسجاد], (S, * O, K, but in the copies of the K كَدَرَاهِم, [which I think a mistranscription,]) means dirhems whereon were effigies to which people performed the act of سُجُود: it is said that upon them was the effigy of Kisrà, and he who beheld them lowered his head to them and showed humility [as the Persians in the present day do to the picture of their King]: or الأَسْجَاد means the tax called جِزْيَة: so says AO, or A 'Obeyd: or the Jews and the Christians: some say the former and some say the latter: and it is read with kesr to the ء, and expl. as meaning the Jews, by IAar. [Whatever be the signification of the last word, the verse plainly means, “ of wine of a foreigner, sold by him for foreign money. ”]مِنْ خَيْرِ ذِى نَطَفٍ أَغَنَّ مُنَطَّقٍ وَافَى بِهَا لِدَرَاهِمِ الإِأَسْجَادِ
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