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* A cause, a means, or an occasion, of good; a thing, an affair, or a business, conducive to good, or that is for good; [and hence it may often be rendered simply an affair, when the context shows it to mean what is conducive to good or done for a good purpose;] contr. of mafosadapN ; (S and Msb and K in art. fsd ;) a good, right, or virtuous, affair; (KL;) a thing that is good and right; syn. ↓ SalaAHN [q. v.]: pl. maSaAliHu . (S, A, Msb, K.) One says, naZara fiY maSAliHi Aln~aAsi [ He considered the things that were for the good of the people ]. (A, TA.) And humo mino A^aholi AlmafaAsidi laA AlmaSaAliHi [ They are of the people who occupy themselves in the things conducive to evil, not the things conducive to good ]. (A, TA. *) And fiY AlA^amori maSolaHapN In the affair is that which is good: (Msb:) [or a cause of good. ] And raA^aY AlA_imaAmu AlmaSolaHapa fiY ka*aA The Imám saw what was good and right [or what was conducive to good ] in such a thing. (TA.) ― -b2- It is also an inf. n. of SalaHa . (MA.)