Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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مُطَّلَعٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) [A place to which one ascends: or] a place of ascent from a low spot to a place that overlooks. (As, TA.) Hence, (TA,) it is said in a trad. (O, K) of the Prophet, (O,) مَانَزَلَ مِنَ القُرْآنِ آيَةٌ إِِلَّا لَهَا ظَهْرٌ وَبَطْنٌ وَلِكُلِّ حَرْفٍ حَدٌّ وَلِكُلِّ حَدٍّ مُطَّلَعٌ i. e. (O, K) (assumed tropical:) Not a verse of the Kur-án has come down but it has an apparent and known [or exoteric] interpretation and an intrinsic [or esoteric] interpretation, (TA voce ظَهْرٌ, where see more,) [and every word has a scope, and every scope has] a place [meaning point] to which the knowledge thereof may ascend, (O, K, TA,) or, as some say, something that may be violated, God not having forbidden a thing that should be held sacred without his knowing that some one would seek to elicit it. (TA.) ― -b2- And i. q. مَأْتًى; (S, O, K, TA;) مُطَّلَعُ الأَمْرِ meaning مَأْتَاهُ; (S, O, TA;) as also الأَمْرِ ↓ مَطْلَعُ ; (TA;) i. e. (assumed tropical:) The way, or manner, of attaining to the doing, or performing, of the affair. (TA.) One says, مَالِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ مُطَّلَعٌ (assumed tropical:) There is no way, or manner, of attaining to the doing, or performing, of this affair. (TA.) And أَيْنَ مُطَّلَعُ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ i. e. مَأْتَاهُ (assumed tropical:) [Where is the way of attaining to the doing, or performing, of this affair?]. (S, O, TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) An elevated place from which one looks towards a low place. (S, O, Msb, K, TA.) To this is likened the scene of the events of the world to come, (S, O, Msb, K, TA,) after death, i. e. the station of the day of resurrection, (TA,) in the saying of 'Omar, لَوْ أَنَّ مَا فِى الأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا لَأَفْتَدَيْتُ بِهِ مِنْ هَوْلِ المُطَّلَعِ (tropical:) [If all that is in the world belonged to me, assuredly I would ransom myself therewith from the terror of the place whence one will look down on the day of resurrection]: (S, * O, Msb, * K, * TA:) or المُطَّلَع means that which is looked upon of such hardships as the interrogation of [the angels] Munkar and Nekeer, and the pressure of the grave, and its solitude, and the like; and is [for المُطَّلَعِ عَلَيْهِ, or] originally an inf. n. in the sense of الاِطِّلَاع: or it may be a noun of time, and thus applied to the day of resurrection. (Har p. 344-5.)