اِسْتَقَامَ

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It became right; direct; in a right state; straight: even: tended towards the right, or desired, point, or object; had a right direction, or tendency; was regular.
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اِسْتَقَامَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ الحَقِّ (K, article رشد) He continued in the way of truth, or the right way; as also عَلَيْهِ
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أَقَامَ?
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لَمْ يَسْتَقِمِ الأَمْرُ The affair was, or became, difficult: see تَعَذَّرَ.
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استقام لَهُ الأَمْرُ The affair, or case, became in a right state for him; synonym اِعْتَدَلَ. (S.)
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اِسْتَقَامَ He, or it, was, or became, right, direct, rightly directed, undeviating, straight, or even: and he, or it, stood right, or straight, or erect. (MA, KL.) He went right on, straight on, or undeviatingly: (see زَعَبَ:) whence اِسْتَقَامَ عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ he went on undeviatingly in the way. (See Qur'an, 72:16.) He went right; pursued a right course; acted rightly, or justly. See also سَدَّ, with which it is synonym It (an affair) was direct in its tendency, or had a right tendency. It (discourse, &c.) had a right tenour.
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See 2.

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