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**“Ḥamiʾa”**: *“muddy”*; and **“ḥāmiyah”** without a hamzah means *hot*.
And **“the zealotry of ignorance (ḥamiyyat al-jāhiliyyah)”** refers to their saying: *“Muḥammad has killed our sons and brothers and yet they enter upon us in our homes—let the Arabs not speak of this.”*
**“Ḥām”**: the male camel that, once the offspring of its offspring mounts (i.e., reproduces), or it is said: when ten generations are produced from its loins. They say: *its back is protected*, so it is not ridden and is not prevented from pasture or water.
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**(Ḥawā)**
**“al-ḥawāyā”**: dung piles; it is also said to mean what the belly contains of intestines.
It is also said: *al‑ḥawāyā are the daughters of milk*, meaning they are folded or rounded.
Its singular forms are: **ḥāwiyah, ḥawiyyah, and ḥāwiyāʾ**.
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**(Ḥayā)**
**“They keep your women alive (yastaḥyūna nisāʾakum)”**: they spare them, from the root meaning life, i.e., they seek to keep them alive.
**“In retribution (qiṣāṣ) there is life for you”**: meaning benefit. According to **Abū ʿUbaydah** and **Ibn ʿArafah**, when the killer knows he will be killed, he refrains from killing.
It is also said: *“There is no life in so‑and‑so,”* meaning there is no good in him.
**“God is not ashamed to set forth a parable”**: meaning He does not refrain from striking a parable as one who is shy would refrain.
**Modesty (ḥayāʾ)**: the soul’s restraint from what is shameful out of fear of blame.
**“My living and my dying are for God”**: this may be interpreted as the good deeds performed during life immediately, and those that reach others after death, such as a bequest to the poor.
**“Taḥiyyah (greeting)”**: meaning peace.
**“So greet yourselves with a greeting from God”**: meaning a greeting established and prescribed by His command, originating from Him; because giving salām is a request for the safety of the one greeted, and the greeting is a prayer that God grant life to the one greeted. It is described as blessed and good because it is the supplication of a believer for another believer, hoping for an increase of good from God and purity of provision.
From this is the saying of the Prophet: *“Greet the people of your household with salām, and the الخير (good) of your household will increase.”*
**“Taḥiyyah”** is in the accusative because of *“greet (sallimū)”*, meaning *a greeting*, just as one says *“I praised him with thanks.”*
It is also said that **“ḥayyāka Allāh”** means *“may God grant you kingship,”* and **taḥiyyah** can mean *sovereignty*. According to this interpretation, the verse **“Their greeting therein will be peace”** means their greeting there is peace.
It is also said: their greeting to one another there is *peace*, meaning safety from what afflicted the people of Hell.
**“With shyness (ʿalā istiḥyāʾ)”**: in the accusative as a circumstantial expression, meaning *being shy*.
**“They greet you with what God has not greeted you with”**: they say in their greeting to you *“al‑sām ʿalayk”* (death be upon you), where **al‑sām** means death.
And God’s greeting is: **“Peace be upon His chosen servants.”**
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**Section Seven: Words beginning with the letter Khāʾ**
**(Khabā)**
*The fire “khabat”* means it subsides.
God says: **“Whenever it subsides, We increase them in blazing fire.”**
**“al‑khabʾ”**: that which is hidden; it is named with the verbal noun. It refers to vegetation for the earth, rain for the sky, and other things that God has hidden from His unseen treasures. It is also read **“al‑khab”** with the hamzah lightened by omission.
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**(Khazā)**
**“Akhzaytuhu”**: I destroyed him; it is also said: I drove him away from goodness.
From the verse: **“God will not disgrace the Prophet.”**
And **“the disgracer of the disbelievers”**: meaning the one who destroys them.
It is also said: *“May God disgrace him,”* meaning He detested him.
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**(Khasā)**
**“Be driven away therein (ikhsaʾū fīhā)”**: meaning *be removed or driven away*, a removal with something hateful.
**“Khasīʾīn”**: driven away and banished.
One says: *I drove the dog away (akhsāʾtu al‑kalb)* and *the dog withdrew (khasaʾa).*
**“Khasīʾan wa huwa ḥasīr”**: driven away while exhausted.
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**(Khashā)**
**Khashyah**: fear.
God says: **“Those who are in awe of their Lord are fearful.”**
Khashyah can also mean dislike, as in:
**“So we feared that he would overwhelm them with tyranny and disbelief.”**
Meaning: *we disliked*, and it is also said *we knew*.
Thus **khashyah** may also mean knowledge.
From this is the saying of **Jarīr** (the poet).
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