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ذِكْرَى

Root: ذكر

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ذِكْرَى : see ذِكْرٌ, in three places.
2 Remembrance with the reception of exhortation: so in the following passage of the Kur [xlvii. 20], فَأَنَّى لَهُمْ إِذَا جَآءَتْهُمْ ذِكْرَاهُمْ [Then how, that is, of what avail, will be to them their remembrance with the reception of exhortation when it cometh to them: or] how will it be to them when it cometh to them with their remembrance and their reception of exhortation: i. e., this will not profit them.
3 Repentance: so in the Kur [lxxxix. 24], وَأَنَّى لَهُ الذِّكْرَى, i. e. And how shall he have repentance?
4 A reminding, or causing to remember: so in the Kur viii. 1, and xi. 121, and li. 55. See 2.
5 An admonition: so in the Kur xxxviii. 42, and xl. 56.
6 A being reminded, or caused to remember: so in the Kur [xxxviii. 46], in the phrase ذِكْرَى الدَّارِ Their being reminded of, or caused to remember, the latter abode, and being made to relinquish worldly things, or not to desire them: or it may mean their remembering much the latter abode.
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