Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 152
جهل جهر does not like the uttering of unseemly speech in public (4:149). وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ : And utter not thy prayer aloud )17:111( جَهْرٌ and جَهْرَةٌ and جِهَارٌ : Plain, manifest, apparent, open or public; conspicuous; loudly. رَاهُ جِهَارًا : He saw him clearly or with his eyes, without anything intervening. لانُؤْمِنُ لَكَ حَتَّى نَرَى اللَّهَ جَهْرَةً : We will not believe in thee unless we see Allah clearly or with our own eyes without any thing intervening or see Him face to : He (God) knows your inside and : He (God) knows what is manifest and what is hidden )87:8( لَقِيَهُ جَهَارًا : He met him in the day time, openly or publicly . ثُمَّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا : And I called to يَعْلَمُ سِرَّكُمْ وَجَهْرَكُمْ (2:56) face يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَى . (6:4) outside them aloud (71:9). جَهَّرَ ]inf. noun جَهَّزَهُ تَجْهِيرٌ : He fitted him out, equipped him with what he needed. جَهَّرَ الْعَرُوْسَ : He gave the bride with her requisites. جَهَّرَ الْمَيِّتَ : He prepared for the dead body what was necessary for it. جَهَا : The requisites, equipments, provisions or other requisites for a traveller; household goods or furniture and utensils; excellent goods that are conveyed as merchandise. فَلَمَّا جَهَّزَهُمْ بِجَهَازِهِمْ : When he had provided them with their provision (12:71). جَهِلَ ]aor. يَجْهَلُ inf. noun جَهْلٌ and جَهِلَ جَهَالَةٌ and جَهِلَهُ and جَهِلَ بِهِ : He was ignorant, he was ignorant of it; he did not know it. مِثْلِي لا يَجْهَلُ مِثْلَكَ : The like of me will not be ignorant of the like of thee. جَهِلَ عَلَيْهِ : He acted towards him in a silly and foolish manner and wrongly. In Arabic punishment for an evil is sometimes denoted by the term used for the evil itself. A poet says: فَنَجْهَلْ فَوْقَ جَهْلِ الْجَاهِلِيْنَا الا لا يَجْهَلَنْ أَحَدٌ عَلَيْنَا Beware! Nobody should show ignorance against us; or we shall show greater ignorance in reply i. e. we will severely punish such ignorance. جَهِلَ فُلانٌ رَأْيَهُ : He was ignorant, silly or foolish in his opinion or judgement. جَهِلَ الْحَقَّ : He neglected or ignored the truth. جَهِلَ الْقِدْرُ : The cooking pot boiled violently. تَجَاهَلَ : He pretended ignorance. جَهْلٌ : Ignorance; foolishness; wrong 28 152