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رَفِيقٌ

Root: رفق

Full Definition

رَفِيقٌ Gentle, soft, tender, gracious, courteous, or civil; as also رَافِقٌ .
2 And hence, Gentle, delicate, nice, neat, or skilful, in work or operation; contr. of أَخْرَقُ.
3 [Hence, also,] هٰذَا الأَمْرُ رَفِيقٌ بِكَ and رَافِقٌ بِكَ and رَافِقٌ عَلَيْكَ [This affair, or thing, is easy, or convenient, to thee: see أَرْفَقُ].

def.2 Also A companion and companions in travel-ling, or journeying, and afterwards: used as sing. and pl., like صَدِيقٌ and خَلِيطٌ: pl. رُفَقَآءُ; with which رُفَاقَةٌ is syn., as in the phrase فِتْيَةٌ رُفَاقَةٌ [Young men companions &c.]. See also رُفْقَةٌ. It is said in the Kur [iv. 71], وَحَسُنَ أُولَائِكَ رَفِيقًا, meaning رُفَقَآءَ [i. e. And good, or very good, will be those as companions after the journey of life] in Paradise! And Mohammad is related by 'Áïsheh to have said, [just before his death,] when he had been given his choice between continuance in the present world and what was with God, and had chosen the latter, بَلِ الرَّفِيقَ الأَعْلَى مِنَ الجَنَّةِ [Nay, rather, the highest companions of Paradise]; meaning, I desire the company, or congregation, of the prophets.
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