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صَفَّى purifies in Arabic

صَفَّى is how you say “purifies” in Arabic.

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وَقَالَ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانِ الْدَّارَانِيِ مَنْ صَفَّى، صُفِّيَ لَهُ، وَمَنْ كَدَرَ، كَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ،

Abu Sulayman al-Darani said: Whoever purifies himself will be purified, and whoever becomes clouded will be clouded.

صَفَّى purifies himself

A past-tense 'he' verb on an intensive pattern meaning 'purified/made clear', with its subject built in and supplied by the 'whoever'. Inside the conditional its past shape reads as a general 'whoever purifies'. The doubled middle sound of the pattern carries the sense of thorough, deliberate cleansing.

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