حِجَابٌ

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حِجَابٌ [A thing that prevents, hinders, debars,or precludes:] a thing that veils, conceals, hides, covers, or protects; because it prevents seeing, or beholding: a thing, or body. that intervenes between two things, or between two bodies; which is [said to be] the primary signification; [a partition, a bar, a barrier, or an obstacle:] and sometimes applied to ideal things: pl. جُجُبٌ. You say, ضُرِبَ الحِجَابُ عَلَى النِّسَآءِ [The veil, or curtain, was put, or let down, over the women]. And لَهُ دَعَوَاتٌ تَخْرِقُ الحُجُبَ [He has prayers that rend the veils]. And مَا لِدَعْوَةِ المَظْلُومِ حِجَابٌ [There is no veil, or obstacle, to the prayer of the wronged]. It is said in a trad., مَنِ ٱطَّلَعَ الحِجَابِ وَاقَعَ مَا وَرَآءَهُ [He who gets sight and knowledge of the veil falls into that which is behind it]: i. e., when a man dies, he falls into what is behind [one of] the two veils, that of Paradise and that of Hell: or, accord. to some, اِطَلَاعُ الحِجَابِ signifies the stretching out the head [and looking over the veil]; for he who examines into a thing stretches out his head to see what is behind the veil, or covering. And in another trad., a saying of Mohammad, إِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ يَغْفِرُ لِلْعَبْدِ مَا لَمْ يَقَعِ الحِجَابُ [Verily God forgiveth the servant as long as the precluding event shall not have happened]: الحجاب here meaning the dying in the belief in a plurality of gods: as though one were precluded from true belief by death. One says also, العَجْزُ حَجَابٌ بَيْنَ الإِنْسَانِ وَمُرَادِهِ [Inability is a bar between man and his desire]. And المَعْصِيَةُ حِجَابٌ بَيْنَ العَبْدِ وَبَيْنَ رَبِّهِ [Disobedience is a bar between the servant and his Lord].
2 [Hence, in the present day, A written charm or amulet; generally worn in a case (called بَيْتُ حِجَابٍ) suspended, on the right side, by a string passing over the left shoulder, or on some other part of the person: pl. of mult. حُجُبٌ, and of pauc. أَحْجِبَةٌ and حِجَابَاتٌ.]
3 [Hence also,] A thin piece of flesh, resembling a piece of shin, in the interior of the body, between the two sides, intervening between the lungs and the قصب [in the K القَصَب, but this is evidently a mistranscription for القُصْب the lower intestines; for the حجاب is the diaphragm, or midriff]: and حِجَابُ القَلْبِ, or حَجَابُ الجَوْفِ, signifies [the same; as also حَجَابُ الكَبِدِ; (see خِلْبٌ;)] what intervenes between the heart and the rest of the جوف; the piece of skin that intervenes between the heart and the belly: or حِجَابُ القَلْبِ signifies a certain fat that clothes the heart: (AHeyth, TA in art. شغف:) [or it signifies, or signifies also, the septum cordis: see قَلْبٌ:] pl. حُجُبٌ Hence the saying, هَتَكَ الخَوْفُ حِجَابَ قَلْبِهِ [Fear rent open his midriff: or his septum cordis].
4 The horizon: [because it terminates the view:] so in the phrase, تَوَارَتْ بِٱلْحِجَابِ It became concealed by the horizon; occurring in the Kur [xxxviii. 31], and in a trad.
5 A mountain: or an elevated part of a mountain. You say, قَعَدَ فِى ظِلِّ الحِجَابِ He sat in the shade of the mountain.
6 The place where a [stony tract such as is called] حَرَّة ends.
7 A tract of sand uniformly continuous, and long.
8 The light of the sun: or the tract, or side, of the sun: or [like حَاجِبٌ] a side, or part, of the sun.

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