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مُسْتَبْصِرٌ

Root: بصر

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مُسْتَبْصِرٌ One who seeks, or endeavours, to see a thing plainly or clearly [either with the eyes or with the mind].
2 وَكَانُوا مُسْتَبْصِرِينَ, in the Kur [xxix. 37], means, And they were endowed with perceptive faculties of the mind, or of knowledge, or of skill: or they clearly perceived, when they did what they did, that the result thereof would be their punishment. And you say, هُوَ مُسْتَبْصِرٌ فِى دِينِهِ وَعَمَلِهِ He is endowed with mental perception, or knowledge, or understanding, intelligence, or skill, in his religion and his actions.
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