Discover the meaning of the term Muthallath (مثلث) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readHe whose two-thirds flowed by nature, of grape-water, raisin or date water, a third remaining: so long sweet, pure and lawful to drink; boiled and thickened, likewise, for food’s continuing, piety and remedy without diversion; inebriation thereof not lawful. Mouhammad said: « unlawful in itself, bounded in little as much ».
In geometry’s terminology: the surface enclosed by three straight lines. It divides sometimes by the sides’ regard, sometimes by the angle’s. By the sides’ regard: three kinds: equilateral, isosceles, scalene.
He whose third is liquid.
He whom it follows.
Grape-juice boiled before boiling and thickening, till its two-thirds flowed and a third remained.