فِرَاسَةٌ
a subst. from التَّفَرُّسُ, signifying التَّوَسُّمُ, or from تَفَرَّسْتُفِيهِ خَيْرًا [q. v.], or from تَفَرَّسَ فِيهِ الشَّىْءَ [q. v.]: or, as also
فَرَاسَةٌ, [said to be] an Verbal.Noun of فَرَسَ بِالنَّظَرِ: [but see this verb:] فِرَاسَةٌ بِالعَيْنِ [or بِالنَّظَرِ ] signifies Insight; or intuitive perception; or the perception,. or discernment, of the internal, inward, or intrinsic, state, condition, character, or circumstances, by the eye [or by the examination of outward indications &c.]: or فِرَاسَةٌ signifies a faculty which God puts into the minds of his favourites, in consequence whereof they know the states, conditions, or circumstances, of certain men, by a kind of what are termedكَرَامَات [or thaumaturgic operations], and by the right direction of opinion and conjecture: and also a kind of art [such as physiognomy, which is especially thus termed in the present day,] learned by indications, or evidences, and by experiments, and by the make and dispositions, whereby one knows the state, conditions, or circumstances, of men: or the discovery of an internal quality in a man by right opinion. It is said in a trad., اِتَّقُوا فِرَاسَةَالمُؤْمِنِ [Beware ye of the insight, &c. of the believer]: and the reason is added, فَإِنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ بِنُورِ ٱللّٰه [for he looks with the light of God]. (TA. [See also قُرَابَةٌ.])
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