conc▪ Accord. to ClassAr lexicographers, ḥāfiraẗ refers to the situation immediately after a deal, when the sold/bought animal is not to be removed until its price has been paid, i.e., when it is still ‘digging’, pawing the ground. From the expression ʕinda ’l-ḥāfir(aẗ) ‘lit., with [him/her] still digging/pawing’, is the meaning ‘on the spot, right away, at once’, still common today, and hence also ‘original state, initial condition’, attested as such already in the Qurʔān.