نَصُوحٌ

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نَصُوحٌ True, or sincere, repentance: from نَصَحَتِ الإِبِلُ الشُّرْبَ: or [repentance that mends one's life;] form نَصَحَ الثَّوْبَ, agreeably with the saying of Mohammad, “ He who traduces the absent rends, and he who begs forgiveness of God mends: ” [see رَفَأَ:] or such repentance that one returns not after it to that of which he repents: sincere repentance, after which one returns not to sin: so explained by Mohammad himself: or very sincere, or very honest repentance: فَعُولٌ being a measure of an intensive epithet, applicable alike to the masc. and fem.: or repentance in which one does not purpose to return to the sin of which he repents. The people of El-Medeeneh read [in the Kur, lxvi., 8,] نَصُوحًا: but some read نُصُوحًا, which is an Verbal.Noun

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