مَهَاوِشُ

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مَهَاوِشُ What is gotten by force or theft: or any wealth, or property, that is gotten by unlawful means, such as force and theft and the like: pl. of مَهُوشٌ : or as though pl. of this latter word, as signifying collected; and mixed, confused, or confounded. It is said in a trad., مَنْ أَصَابَ مَالًا مِنْ مَهَاوِشَ أَذْهَبَهُ ٱللّٰهُ فِى نَهَابِرَ [Whoso getteth wealth, or property, of such as is unlawfully acquired, God will make it to pass away in places of destruction]: but this is variously related; some saying ; and some, تَهَاوُشٍ; and some, نَهَاوِشَ, with ن, which is explained in the K as signifying مَظَالِم: the relation given in the S is that which is commonly known by the lexicologists; but all are correct, excepting that تَهَاوِش, with ت, and with a kesreh to the و, is disapproved by some of the lexicologists: this last word is a contraction of تَهَاوِيشُ, pl. of , of the measure تَفْعَالٌ from الهَوْشُ, meaning “ the collecting ”; and “ mixing, ” “ confusing, ” or “ confounding ”: or from هُشْتُ مَالًا حَرَامًا. A poet says, تَأْكُلُ مَاجَمَعْتَ مِنْ تَهْوَاشِ [Thou eatest what thou hast collected of things unlawfully acquired].

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