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مُعَاجِزٌ

Root: عجز

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مُعَاجِزٌ act. part. n. of 3 [q. v.].
2 In the Kur xxii. 50 and xxxiv. 5, مُعَاجِزِينَ signifies Fighting and contesting with the prophets and their friends, to render them unable to perform the command of God: or opposing: or striving to outstrip, or gain precedence: or opposing, [and] striving to outstrip or gain precedence: or imagining that they will render us unable to attain them, or that they will escape us; for they imagined that they were not to be raised from the dead, and that there was no Paradise nor Hell: but some read , meaning, withholding, or keeping back, or diverting, the followers of the Prophet from him and from belief in the signs or miracles: or attributing impotence to the followers of the Prophet.
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