مَفَازَةٌ

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مَفَازَةٌ A place of safety, security, or escape. So in the Kur [iii. 185], فَلَا تَحْسِبَنَّهُمْ بِمَفَازَةٍ مِنَ العَذَابِ [Do thou by no means reckon them to be in a place of security from punishment]: or, accord. to Fr, the meaning here is, far from punishment.
2 A cause, or means, of prosperity, or success, or of the attainment or acquisition of that which one desires or seeks, or of what is good, or of that whereby one becomes in a happy or good state; syn. مَفْلَحَةٌ.
3 [The state of temporary safety which is between the present life and that which is to come. See 1, last signification.]

def.2 A place of perdition, or destruction: or i. q. فَلَاةٌ: [i. e.] a desert; syn. بَرِّيَّةٌ; any [desert such as is called] قَفْرٌ: or a desert in which is no water: and a desert in which is no water for the space of a journey of two nights or more: when there is none for the space of a journey of a night and a day, it is not thus called. or a tract in which two wateringplaces are so far apart that camels are kept from drinking two days, with a portion of the day preceding them and of the day following them, [accord. to that which is generally preferred of the explanations of the term رِبْعٌ which is here employed,] and other animals [that journey quicker] drink on alternate days; as also فَلَاةٌ: or such as is between that in which camels are kept from drinking two days &c. as above, and that in which other animals drink on alternate days; as also فَيْفَاةٌ: so called to prognosticate good fortune, and safety. as meaning a place of safety, from فَازَ signifying “ he became safe: ” or from فَوَّزَ, or فَازَ. signifying “ he perished, ” or “ he died: ” AHei condemns the former of these assertions; but Az and ISd say that it is the more commonly approved, though the latter is the more agreeable with analogy: or it is so called because he who comes forth from it, having traversed it, is safe: the pl. is مَفَاوِزُ: and مَفَازٌ signifies the same as مَفَازَةٌ. so in a trad. of Kaab Ibn-Málik; فَٱسْتَقْبَلَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا وَمَفَازًا [And he saw before him, or looked forward to, a far journey and a desert, or a waterless desert, &c.].

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