رَسُولٌ
Root: رسل
Full Definition
رَسُولٌ
i. q.
رِسَالَةٌ: see the latter, in five places.
2 Hence, as meaning ذُو رَسُولٍ, i. e. ذُو رِسَالَةٍ [One who has a message; i. e. a messenger]; i. q. مُرْسَلٌ , meaning one sent with a message; of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [or rather مُفْعَلٌ]: [and often meaning an apostle of God; and with the article ال especially applied to Mohammad:] accord. to IAmb, its meaning in the proper language of the Arabs is one who carries on by consecutive progressions the relation of the tidings of him who has sent him; taken from the phrase جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ رَسَلًا, meaning “ The camels came following one another: ” and the saying of the Muëdhdhin, أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ ٱللّٰه means I know [or acknowledge] and declare that Mohammad is the relater by consecutive progressions of the tidings from God: [or, as commonly understood, I testify that Mohammad is the apostle of God:] a رَسُول is also called مِرْسَالٌ , as being likened to the arrow thus termed: the pl. of رَسُولٌ is رُسُلٌ and رُسْلٌ and رُسَلَآءٌ, which last is from IAar, or Fr, and أَرْسُلٌ, which [is a pl. of pauc., and] occurs in the saying of the Hudhalee,
3 One says also, السِّهَامُ رُسُلُ المَنَايَا
4 See also the next paragraph.
2 Hence, as meaning ذُو رَسُولٍ, i. e. ذُو رِسَالَةٍ [One who has a message; i. e. a messenger]; i. q. مُرْسَلٌ , meaning one sent with a message; of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [or rather مُفْعَلٌ]: [and often meaning an apostle of God; and with the article ال especially applied to Mohammad:] accord. to IAmb, its meaning in the proper language of the Arabs is one who carries on by consecutive progressions the relation of the tidings of him who has sent him; taken from the phrase جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ رَسَلًا, meaning “ The camels came following one another: ” and the saying of the Muëdhdhin, أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ ٱللّٰه means I know [or acknowledge] and declare that Mohammad is the relater by consecutive progressions of the tidings from God: [or, as commonly understood, I testify that Mohammad is the apostle of God:] a رَسُول is also called مِرْسَالٌ , as being likened to the arrow thus termed: the pl. of رَسُولٌ is رُسُلٌ and رُسْلٌ and رُسَلَآءٌ, which last is from IAar, or Fr, and أَرْسُلٌ, which [is a pl. of pauc., and] occurs in the saying of the Hudhalee,
[Had there been in my heart as much as a nailparing of love for another than thee, my messengers had come to her]: respecting which IJ says that he has given to رَسُولٌ this form of pl., which is [regularly] proper to feminines [of this class of words, consisting of four letter whereof the third is a letter of prolongation], such as أَتَانٌ and عَنَاقٌ and عُقَابٌ, because women are meant thereby, as they, generally, are the persons required to serve in cases of this kind: [for] رَسُولٌ is applied without variation to a male and a female, and to one [and to two] and to a pl. number; sometimes: i. e., it is allowable thus to apply it: hence, in the Kur [xxvi. 15], إِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ العَالَمِينَ [Verily we are the apostles of the Lord of the beings of the whole world]: MF says, in ch. xx. [verse 49], we find إِنَّا رَسُولَا رَبِّكَ [Verily we are the two apostles of thy Lord]; the dual form being here used: and Z says, in the Ksh, that in this instance it means the messengers, and therefore the dual form is necessarily used; but in ch. xxvi. it means the message, and therefore it is allowable to use it alike, when applying it as an epithet, as sing. and dual and pl.: Aboo-Is-hak the Grammarian says that the meaning here is, إِنَّا رِسَالَةٌ رَبِّ العَالَمِينَ, i. e. ذَوُو رِسالَةِ [Verily we are those that have the message &c.]: [but] رَسُولٌ [as meaning a messenger] is like عَدُوٌّ and صَديقٌ [&c.] in its being used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. [and dual] and pl.: Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it in the sense of رُسُل in his saying,لَوْكَانَ فِى قَلْبِى كَقَدْرِ قُلَامَةٍ حُبًا لِغَيْرِكِ قَدْ أَتَاهَا أَرْسُلِى
[Be thou my messenger to her: and the best of messengers is the most knowing of them in respect of the bounds, or limits, of the tidings]. See 4. The saying in the Kur [xxv. 39], وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ لَمَّ كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ [lit. And the people of Noah, when they charged with lying the apostles, we drowned them], Zj says, may mean that they charged with lying Noah alone; for he who charges with lying a prophet charges therewith all the prophets, since they believe in God and in all his apostles; or the general term may be here used as meaning one; like as when you say, أَنْتَ مِمَّنْ يُنْفِقُ الدَّرَاهِمَ, meaning “ Thou art of those who expend the kind of things termed دراهم. ”أَلِكْنِى إِلَيْهَا وَخَيْرُ الرَّسُو لِ أَعْلَمُهُمْ بِنَوَاحِى الخَبَرْ
3 One says also, السِّهَامُ رُسُلُ المَنَايَا
4 See also the next paragraph.
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