رَقَاحَةٌ
Root: رقح
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رَقَاحَةٌ
Good management of property.
2 Gain, acquisition, or earning: and merchandise, commerce, or traffic. Hence, the Pagan Arabs, or some of them, used to say in the تَلْبِيَة, [i. e. in uttering the ejaculation لَبَّيْكَ, during the performance of the rites of the pilgrimage,] جِئْنَاكَ لِلنَّصَاحَةِ لَمْ نَأْتِ لِلرَّقَاحَةِ [meaning We have come to Thee for the purpose of sincere worship: we have not come for gain, or traffic].
2 Gain, acquisition, or earning: and merchandise, commerce, or traffic. Hence, the Pagan Arabs, or some of them, used to say in the تَلْبِيَة, [i. e. in uttering the ejaculation لَبَّيْكَ, during the performance of the rites of the pilgrimage,] جِئْنَاكَ لِلنَّصَاحَةِ لَمْ نَأْتِ لِلرَّقَاحَةِ [meaning We have come to Thee for the purpose of sincere worship: we have not come for gain, or traffic].
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