What is the meaning of *jafat*?
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The questioner : What is the meaning of *jafat*?
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Men from the Bedouins who are *jafat*
The Shaykh : *Jafat*, meaning they possess harshness; they have harshness.
The questioner : Do you mean severity?
The Shaykh : Severity, yes, that is right.
The questioner : In their speech or what?
The Shaykh : In everything, in speech and demeanor, yes, in everything. The Bedouins are people of *jafat*, most of them, though there are some good people among them.[At-Tawbah 9:99] It seems Brother Mustafa read it as *hafat*.
The reader: The first hadith.
The Shaykh : Yes
The reader: It was men from the Bedouins who were *jafat*, with a *jīm*?
The questioner : Yes, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Yes, I have a copy that says *hafat*, and I think you read it with a *hā*.
The questioner : A narration, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I have a copy, not a narration.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Men from the Bedouins who are *jafat*
The Shaykh : *Jafat*, meaning they possess harshness; they have harshness.
The questioner : Do you mean severity?
The Shaykh : Severity, yes, that is right.
The questioner : In their speech or what?
The Shaykh : In everything, in speech and demeanor, yes, in everything. The Bedouins are people of *jafat*, most of them, though there are some good people among them.
But among the bedouins are some who believe in Allah and the Last Day and consider what they spend as means of nearness to Allah
ومن الأعراب من يؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر ويتخذ ما ينفق قربات عند اللهThe reader: The first hadith.
The Shaykh : Yes
The reader: It was men from the Bedouins who were *jafat*, with a *jīm*?
The questioner : Yes, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Yes, I have a copy that says *hafat*, and I think you read it with a *hā*.
The questioner : A narration, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I have a copy, not a narration.