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Nun-Ha-Lam
to make a gift, dower a woman, make a wedding gift, free gift.
nihlatun
unasked, willingly, cheerfully and as agreed gift, without demand and without expecting a return for it. It is distinguishable from hibah (free gift), as every hibah is a nihlah but not every nihlah is a hibah.
nahl
n.com.
16:68
وَأَوْحَى رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ أَنِ اتَّخِذِي مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتا ً وَمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
Wa 'Awĥá Rabbuka 'Ilá An-Naĥli 'Ani Attakhidhī Mina Al-Jibāli Buyūtāan Wa Mina Ash-Shajari Wa Mimmā Ya`rishūna
And your Lord inspired to the bees: "You shall take homes of the mountains and of the trees and of what they erect."
nihlah
n.f.
4:4
وَآتُوا النِسَاء صَدُقَاتِهِنَّ نِحْلَة ً فَإِنْ طِبْنَ لَكُمْ عَنْ شَيْء ٍ مِنْهُ نَفْسا ً فَكُلُوه ُُ هَنِيئا ً مَرِيئا ً
Wa 'Ātū An-Nisā' Şaduqātihinna Niĥlatan Fa'in Ţibna Lakum `An Shay'in Minhu Nafsāan Fakulūhu Hanī'āan Marī'āan
And give the women their dues willingly, and if they remit any of it to you of their own will, then you may take it with good feelings.
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