اخلصهُ

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اخلصهُIV : see 2, first signification. You say, اخلص السَّمْنَ, Verbal.Noun إِخْلَاصُ, He clarified the cooked butter by throwing into it somewhat of the meal of parched barley or wheat (سَوِيق), or dates, or globules of gazelles' dung: or he took the خُلَاصَة [q. v.] of the cooked, or clarified, butter. See also 1, last signification. And أَخْلَصَتْهُ النَّارُ [The fire clarified it, or purified it,] namely, butter, and gold, and silver.
2 You say also, اخلصوا النَّصِيحَةَ and الحُبَّ [lit. They made good advice or counsel, and love, pure, or sincere; meaning, they were pure, or sincere, in giving good advice, and in love]. And اخلص لَهُ المَوَدَّةَ [He was pure, or sincere, to him in love, or affection]. And اخلص لِلّٰهِ العَمَلَ [He was pure, or sincere, towards God in works]. And اخلص لِلّٰهِ الدِّينَ, or دِينَهُ, He was pure, or sincere, towards God in religion, [or in his religion;] without hypocrisy. And اخلص لِلّٰهِ, [elliptically,] He was without hypocrisy [towards God]. or إِخْلَاصٌ properly signifies The asserting oneself to be clear, or quit, of [believing in] any beside God. [Hence.] سُورَةُ الإِخْلَاصِ is a title of The [112th] chapter of the Kur-án commencing with the words قُلْ هُوَ ٱللّٰهُ أَحَدٌ: and سُورَتَا الإِخْلَاصِ the same together with the [109th] chapter commencing with the words يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَافِرُونَ. And كَلِمَةُ الأِخْلَاصِ is applied to The sentence which declares belief in the unity of God. أَخْلَصْنَاهُمْ بِخَالِصَةٍ: see below, voce خَالِصَةٌ.
3 See also 2, third signification.
4 And see 10.

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