أَجَلٌ
Root: اجل
Full Definition
2 Hence, The period of women's waiting, before they may marry again, after divorce: as in the Kur ii. 231 and 232.
3 The period, or extremity of time, in which falls due a debt and the like. You say, بَاعَهُ إِيَّاهُ إِلَي أَجَلٍ [He sold it to him for payment at an appointed period]: and سَلَّمَ الدَّارَاهِمَ فِى طَعَامٍ إِلَي أَجَلٍ [He delivered the money for wheat, or the like, to be given at an appointed period]. (Msb in art. كلأ.)
4 The term, or period, of death; the time in which God has eternally decreed the end of life by slaughter or otherwise: or, as some say, the whole duration of life: and its end: a man's life being thus termed: and his death, by which it terminates: the assigned, or appointed, duration of the life of a man. One says, دَنَا أَجَلُهُ, meaning His death drew near; originally, ٱسْتِيفَآءُ الأَجَلِ the completion of the duration of life. In the Kur vi. 128, the meaning is, The term of death: or, as some say, the term of extreme old age: or the day of resurrection. The words of the Kur [vi. 2] ثُمَّ قَضَى أَجَلًا وَ أَجَلٌ مَسَمَّى عِنْدَهُ mean [Then He decreed a term,] the term of death, and [there is a term named with Him,] the term of the resurrection: or the period between the creation and death, and the period between death and the resurrection; for اجل is applied to the end of a space of time and to the whole thereof: or the meaning is, the period of sleep, and the period of death: or the period of those who have passed away, and the period of those who remain and those who are to come: or the period of remaining in this world, and the period of remaining in the world to come: or in both instances death is meant; [accidental, and natural;] for the اجل of some is by accidental means, as the sword, and drowning, and burning, and eating what disagrees, and other means of destruction; while some have their full periods granted to them and are preserved in health until they die a natural death: or the اجل of some is that of him who dies in a state of happiness and enjoyment; and of others, that of him who reaches a limit beyond which God has no? appointed, in the natural course of this world, any one to remain therein; and to both of these, reference is made in the Kur [xvi. 72 and] xxii. 5.
5 Sometimes, also, it means Destruction: and thus it has been explained as occurring in the Kur [vii. 184], where it is said, وَأَنْ عَسَى أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدِ ٱ قْتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمْ [And that, may be, their destruction shall have drawn near].
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