ثقل

ثَقَلٌ ثقل A thing, or things, that a man has with him, of such things as burden him: (Ham p. 295:) [and particularly] the household-goods, or furniture and utensils, (El-Fárábee, JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, Ham ubi suprà, and Bd in xcix. 2,) and (accord. to El-Fárábee, Msb) the household and kindred and party, or domestics, or servants, (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, and Ham,) of a man, (Ham,) or of a traveller: (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) [or the travelling-apparatus and baggage and train, of a man:] pl. أَثْقَالٌ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K; *) with which ↓ ثَقِلَةٌ is syn., (JK, S, K,) as are also ↓ ثَقَلَةٌ and ↓ ثِقْلَةٌ and ↓ ثَقْلَةٌ and ↓ ثِقَلَةٌ; (K;) as meaning all the household-goods or furniture and utensils of persons going on a journey. (S, K.) ― -b2- See also ثِقْلٌ. ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) The requisites and apparatus, instruments, tools, or the like, of a man: (Ham ubi suprà:) as, for instance, (tropical:) the books and writing-reeds of the learned man: every craftsman has what is thus termed. (TA.) By the saying كِلَا ثَقَلَيْنَا طَامِعٌ بِغَنِيمَةٍ the author thereof, Iyás Et-Tá-ee, means Each of our two armies, the possessors of the ثَقَلَانِ [or apparatus, or weapons, &c., of war, is longing for spoil ]: or an army may be termed ثَقَلٌ because it is heavy in assault. (Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b4- Anything held in high estimation, in much request, and preserved with care. (K, TA.) Hence the trad., اـِنِّى تَارِكٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ كِتَابَ ا@للّٰهِ وَعِتْرَتِى [ Verily I am leaving among you the two objects of high estimation and of care, the Book of God, and my kindred, or near kindred ]: (K:) or they are thus called because of the heaviness of acting in the manner required by them: (Th, TA:) or as being likened to the requisites and apparatus, instruments, tools, or the like, of a man. (Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b5- Also Eggs of the ostrich; because he who takes them rejoices in them, and they are food. (TA.) ― -b6- الثَّقَلَانِ Mankind and the jinn or genii; (S, Msb, K;) because, by the discrimination that they possess, they excel other animate beings. (TA.) It may also mean The Arabs and the foreigners: or mankind and other animate beings. (Ham ubi suprà.)