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شَعَثٌ

Root: شعث

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شَعَثٌ Verbal.Noun of 1 [q. v.].
2 [Hence,] لَمَّ ٱللّٰهُ شَعَثَكَ, and شَعَثَكُمْ, i. e. [May God rectify, or repair, and consolidate, what is discomposed, deranged, disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, of thy, and your, affairs; (see art. لم;) or] consolidate thy, and your, disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, state of affairs: [and so , and شَعْثَكُمْ; perhaps by poetic license; for] Kaab Ibn-Málik El-Ansáree says, لَمَّ ٱلْإِلٰهُ بِهٍ شَعْثًا وَرَمَّ بِهِ أُمُورَ أُمَّتِهِ وَالأَمْرُ مُنْتَشِرُ [God rectified and consolidated, by him, a discomposed, deranged, disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, state of affairs, and repaired, by him, the affairs of his people, when the state of affairs was broken up]. It is said in a trad., as a form of prayer, أَسْأَلُكَ رَحْمَةً تَلُمُّ بِهَا شَعَثِى i. e. [I ask of Thee mercy] whereby thou shalt consolidate what is discomposed, deranged, disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, of my state of affairs.
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