خُفْرَةٌ
Root: خفر
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خُفْرَةٌ
and
[both, in Ham p. 677, said to be inf. ns., but they are rather to be regarded as quasi-inf. ns.,] and
خِفَارَةٌ and
Protection, refuge, preservation, rescue, or liberation, from one seeking or pursuing: a compact, a covenant, or an obligation, by which one becomes responsible for the safety, or safe-keeping, of a person or thing; or the like; or simply responsibility, or suretiship; syn. ذِمَّةٌ: pl. of the first, خُفَرٌ. It is said in a trad., مَنْ صَلَّى الصُّبْحَ فَهْوَ فِى خُفْرَةِ ٱللّٰهِ
Whoso performeth the prayer of daybreak, he is in the protection of God. And in another trad., الدُّمُوعُ خُفَرُ العُيُونِ
Tears are the protections of the eyes from Hell-fire when they weep from the fear of God. And وَفَتْ, and
, May thy compact, covenant, or obligation, which hath made thee responsible for my safety, be fulfilled, is said by the object of protection to his protector when he has not as yet preserved him in safety.
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