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Throughout this period, Mita was known to have met and had close discussions with Shūmei Ōkawa, another translator of the Quran and fellow pan-Asianist. Mita engaged in spy work for the Imperial Japanese Army and wrote of the need to propagandise Muslims in China in order to obtain their support against the Han Chinese forces. [3]
Hind bint Utba ibn Rabi'a (Arabic: هند بنت عتبة بن ربيعة, romanized: Hind bint ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa) was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and the mother of Mu'awiya I (r.
According to Islamic theology, the Qur'an is a revelation very specifically in Arabic, and so it should only be recited in Quranic Arabic. Translations into other languages are the work of humans and so, according to Muslims, no longer possess the uniquely sacred character of the Arabic original.
Sufism is a mystical dimension of Islam, often complementary with the legalistic path of the sharia had a profound impact on the growth of Islam in India. A Sufi attains a direct vision of oneness with God, often on the edges of orthodox behaviour, and can thus become a Pir (living saint) who may take on disciples ( murids ) and set up a ...
For example, the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, wrote many Islamic devotional songs for mainstream Bengali folk music. [24] He also explored Hindu devotional music by composing Shyama Sangeet , Durga Vandana, Sarswati Vandana, bhajans and kirtans , often merging Islamic and Hindu values.
A few days later, he was gifted a booklet of Abul Ala Maududi named "Satya Dharma" (true religion) by Hakeem Muhammad Ayyub Nadwi who was a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, and by reading the book, he became more interested to Islam and started attending Islamic seminars by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. [4] [5] [6] Aged 15, he embraced Islam in 1960.
Mitahara is a Sanskrit combination word, from Mita (मित, moderate) [4] and Ahara (आहार, taking food, diet), [5] which together mean moderate diet. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In Yoga and other ancient texts, it represents a concept linking nutrition to the health of one's body and mind.
Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi a scholar in the Abbasid caliphate wrote al-Fusul fi al-Hisab al-Hindi ("chapters in Indian calculation") to address the difficulty in procedures for calculation from the Euclid's Elements and endorsed the use of Indian calculation. He highlighted its ease of use, speed, fewer requirements of memory and the focused scope ...