المُغَمِّضَاتُ

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المُغَمِّضَاتُ , or مُغَمِّضَاتُ الأُمُورِ, accord. to different relations of a trad. in which it occurs, Sins, or offences, which a man commits knowing them [to be such]: or enormities which a man commits knowing them [to be such]; as though he closed his eyes upon them, feigning himself blind while he saw them: IAth says that accord. to one relation it is with fet-h to the second م,] and means small sins, or offences; so called because minute and unapparent, so that a man commits them with a kind of doubt, not knowing that he will be punished for committing them.

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