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The opposite term of kufr ('disbelief') is iman ('faith'), [12] and the opposite of kafir ('disbeliever') is mu'min ('believer'). [13] A person who denies the existence of a creator might be called a dahri. [14] [15] One type of kafir is a mushrik (مشرك), another group of religious wrongdoer mentioned frequently in the Quran and other ...
Munafiq is a person who in public and in community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam or speaks against it either in his heart or among the enemies of Islam. The hypocrisy itself is called nifāq (نفاق). [2]
However, the Kharijite notion of unbelief (kufr) differed from the mainstream Muslim definition, which understood a kafir as someone who was a non-Muslim. To the Kharijites, kufr implied a defective Muslim, or pseudo-Muslim, who rejected true Islam. [129]
Al-Kāfirūn (Arabic: الكافرون, "The Disbelievers") is the 109th chapter of the Quran.It has six ayat or verses as follows: [1] "Say, “O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship.
Kafiristan or Kafirstan is normally taken to mean "land [] of the kafirs" in the Persian language, where the name کافر kafir is derived from the Arabic كافر kāfir, literally meaning a person who refuses to accept a principle of any nature and figuratively as a person refusing to accept Islam as his faith; it is commonly translated into English as a "non-believer".
Fasiq is derived from the term fisq (Arabic: فسق), "breaking the agreement" [4] or "to leave or go out of." [2]In its original Quranic usage, the term did not have the specific meaning of a violator of laws, and was more broadly associated with kufr (disbelief). [5]
14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah takfired a number of Muslims and Islamic groups—the Mu'tazila, Shi'a Muslims, Sufis and the Sufi mystic, Ibn Arabi, etc. – he believed to have strayed from true Islam, [4] but he is perhaps best remembered for takfiring the Central Asian Mongols (Tartars) who had invaded the Middle East but also converted ...
Certain sects of Islam, such as Wahhabism, include as kafir those Muslims who undertake Sufi shrine pilgrimage and follow Shia teachings about Imams. [41] [42] [43] [page needed] Similarly, in Africa and South Asia, certain sects of Islam such as Hausas, Ahmadi, Akhbaris have been repeatedly declared as Kufir or infidels by other sects of Muslims.