مَتْوَاةٌ
Root: توى
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مَتْوَاةٌ
[Niggardliness, or avarice, is a cause of perishing to property]: a saying of the Arabs, meaning, if thou withhold property from its right disposal, God will make it to pass away in that which is not its right disposal.
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