What does Al-wrʿ mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-wrʿ (ورع) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-wrʿ

Al-wrʿ according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

It is shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbidden; it has also been said: cleaving to beautiful deeds.

Al-wrʿ according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

Shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbidden. Also cleaving to goodly deeds and leaving evil deeds; in the marginalia of the Hidaya: wara' is chastity; it is said: guarding oneself from the forbidden and from what partakes of its doubt, while taqwa is guarding oneself from the forbidden only; and guarding is precaution.

Al-wrʿ according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

In language: scrupulous hesitation and guarding against prohibited things, then borrowed for abstaining from the permitted lawful. It has been defined: shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbidden; it has been said: cleaving to beautiful deeds. (Al-Mu'jam al-Wasit, root wara', 2/1067; al-Ta'rifat, p. 225). Al-wariq: with fatha of the waw and kasra of the ra', and sukun of the ra' is allowed with fatha or kasra of the waw; most philologists say it is specific to struck dirhams, and a group say it applies to all silver, even unstruck.

Al-wrʿ according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

Cleaving to noble deeds and leaving the doubtful things.

Al-wrʿ according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

Shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbidden (al-Ta'rifat, p. 272). It is also said: leaving what makes you doubt and removing what discredits you. And taking the safer course, and compelling the soul to the harder.

Al-wrʿ according to At-Ta'rifat al-Fiqhiyya (Al-Barkati)

It is shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbidden.

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