الجِبْتُ
Root: جبت
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الجِبْتُ
, not a pure Arabic word, because it comprises the letters ج and ت without any of the letters of the kind called ذَوْلَقِىّ [which are ر and ل and ن]; The idol: or idols: or the name of a certain idol, belonging to Kureysh; as also الطَّاغُوتُ: and that which is worshipped instead, or to the exclusion, of God; whatever it be: said to be originally الجِبْسُ, i. e., he, or that, wherein is no good: and the diviner: and the enchanter: and the like thereof: or the Devil; Satan: and enchantment. Accord. to Esh-Shaabee, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالجِبْتِ وَالطَّاغُوتِ, in the Kur [iv. 54], means They believe in enchantment and the Devil: or, accord. to I' Ab, by الجبت is meant Hoyeí Ibn-Akhtab; and by الطاغوت, Kaab Ibn-El-Ashraf: or the words relate to these two men, Jews, who, in order to induce Kureysh to join with them in a league against Mohammad, prostrated themselves to the gods of Kureysh: or to certain Jews, who said that the worship of idols is more pleasing to God than that to which Mohammad invited. It is said in a trad. that what are termed الطِّيَرَةُ and العِيَافَةُ and الطَّرْقُ are مِنَ الجِبْتِ [app. meaning of things wherein is no good: or kinds of divination: or from the Devil].
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