Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 467
صبر صبح Those who entered the morning (being plural of مُصْبِحُ which is act. part. from مَقْطُوْعٌ مُّصْبِحِيْنَ . أَصْبَحَ : Cut off by the morning )11567( )cont of مَسَاءٌ( : Morning or forenoon from sunrise to noon, or according to some from midnight to noon. اتَيْتُهُ صَبَاحًا وَمَسَاءً : I came to him in the morning and in the evening. يَوْمُ الصَّبَاحِ : The day of the predatory incursion of the enemy. فَسَاءَ صَبَاحُ الْمُنْذَرَيْنَ : So evil shall be the morning of those who have been warned (37:178). When the Arabs had to warn their tribe to be ready for the enemy attack i. e. when the enemy came upon them and they had to warn their people, they would say يَا صَبَاحَاهُ ie the enemy has already attacked, so prepare yourselves to meet his attack مِصْبَاحٌ )plural( مَصَابِيحُ( : A lamp or its lighted wick (syn with a large drinking-vessel of the kind called مِصْبَاحٌ قَدَحٌ also means wide spear-head. الْمِصْبَاحُ فِي زُجَاجَةٍ : The lamp is in a glass )24:36( زَيَّنَا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِمَصَابِيحَ : We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps )67:6( مَصَابِيْحُ النُّجُومِ : The stars that are signs of the way to the travellers. و صَبَرَ ]aor. يَصْبِرُ inf. noun صَبْرٌ[ : He was or became patient or enduring; he endured trial or affliction with dignity, or he was contented in trial or affliction without complaining; according to some, he made no difference between a state of comfort and a state of affliction, preserving calmness of mind in both states; he maintained constancy with God amid trials. This is intransitive use of the verb or the object نَفْسَهُ may be considered as understood. صَبَرْتُ نَفْسِي عَلَى كَذَا : I restrained myself to endure such a thing. صَبَرَ فُلانٌ عِنْدَ الْمُصِيبَةِ : Such a one was patient on the occasion of affliction. صَبَرَهُ عَنِ الشَّيْءِ : He restrained him from the thing. صَبَرَ الدَّابَّةَ : He restrained the beast and did not give him food. صَبَرَهُ : He made him or it firm or fast; he bound or tied him or it firmly or fast. صَبَرَهُ also means, he stuck or clave to him. بَدَنِي لَا يَصْبِرُ عَلَى الْبَرَدِ : My body will not endure cold patiently. ثُمَّ جَاهَدُوا وَصَبَرُوْا : Then they struggled and remained steadfast )16:111( فَصَبَرُوْا عَلَى مَا كَذِّبُوا : They remained patient notwithstanding their rejection )6:35( اِصْطَبَرَ : yn with صَبَرَ : He was patient or constant. وَاصْطَبَرْ عَلَيْهَا : And be constant 467