Discover the meaning of the term Wra (ورى) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readThe pus in the belly, in the form wariyan: to corrupt it. In the noble hadith: 'It is better for any one of you that his belly be filled with pus that consumes it than that it be filled with poetry', that is, that poetry dominate him and take hold of him so as to divert him from the Quran and the rest of the religious sciences, and from the remembrance of Allah the Most High. The fire, in the forms wariyan and wariyyan: to blaze. The tinder, in the forms wariyan, wariyyan and wariyyan: its flame comes out of it. The thing, in the form tawriya: to hide it and conceal it. Upon such a thing: to intend it and have it appear through another. For such a one: to aid him and ward off harm from him. Al-tariyya: what the menstruating woman sees in washing: a hidden, slight thing, less than the yellow and the dark. Al-tawriya: to utter an expression apparent for a meaning while intending another meaning that the expression embraces but which differs from its apparent. Al-wara': creation. Al-wary: an ulcer in the belly from which pus and blood are vomited. The Arabs say of the odious man, when he coughs: he spits and belches. Al-wazagh: a venomous, leprous creature; (plural) awzaghu; the female: wazagha. (plural) wazagha and awzaghu. The weak man.