قل

qul (imperat. of قال for قول 'to say'), s.m. The first word of sūras 112, 113, and 114 of the Qorān (beginning respectively with the verses qul, huwa’llāhǒaḥaduṉ, 'Say, God is One'; qul, aūẕu bi-rabbi’l-falaqi, 'Say, I seek the protection of the Lord of the Daybreak'; and qul, aūẕu bi-rabbin-nāsi, 'Say, I seek the protection of the Lord of Men'), and used to denote one and all of these sūrasor chapters;—reading any one or all of the abovementioned sūras (this is commonly done at a fātiḥa, q.v., or, by way of benediction, over fruits or sweetmeats presented to the guest at the conclusionof the religious annual feasts held in commemoration of ancestors and other relations);—(hence) conclusion, finish, end:—qul-aūẕīya (fr. qul, aūẕu, etc.; see above), s.m. One whose practice it is to recite the sūrasbeginning with the words qul, aūẕufor a remuneration in money or food:—qul-kāmelā, A fair held in commemoration of the death of Moḥammad;—a spiritualistic gathering, or kind of revival, at which men caper and dance and roll on the ground in a state of religious frenzy:—qul ho-ćukna, v.n. To be concluded, to come to an end; to be all over:—qul honāor ho-jānā, v.n. To be finished; to be worn or tired out; to be brought to the verge of death or destruction; to come to an end, to die:—qul huwa’llāh paṛhnā, 'To repeat the words qul, huwa’llāh, etc., or Say, God is One';—to grumble (the bowels; see s.v. aṅtrī); to be hungry.