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حِرْمٌ

Root: حرم

Full Definition

حِرْمٌ : see حُرْمٌ, in two places.

def.2 See also حَرَامٌ, in two places.
2 وَ حِرْمٌ عَلَى قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَاهَا أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ, in the Kur [xxi. 95], thus read by some, means وَاجِبٌ [i. e. It is a necessary lot of the people of a town that we have destroyed that they shall not return] to their present state of existence: so explained by Ks, and by I'Ab and Fr and Zj: some read حَرْمٌ : the people of El-Medeeneh read حَرَامٌ ; meaning forbidden; and accord. to this reading and meaning, لا is redundant: [or حَرَامٌ in this instance is syn. with وَاجِبٌ, like حِرْمٌ; for it is said that] the explanation of Ks is confirmed by the saying of 'Abd-er-Rahmán Ibn-Jumáneh [in the TA حمانة, app. for جُمَانَة,] ElMuháribee, a Jáhilee, فَإِنَّ لَا أَرَى الدَّهْرَ بَاكِيًا عَلَى شَجْوِهِ إِلَّا بَكِيتُ عَلَى عَمْرٍو [For it is a necessary thing that I should not ever see one weeping for his sorrow but I should weep for 'Amr].
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