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al-Dawla. v. t. e. Fitna (or fitnah, pl. fitan; Arabic: فتنة , فتن: "temptation, trial; sedition, civil strife, conflict" [1]) is an Arabic word with extensive connotations of trial, affliction, or distress. Although it is a word with important historical implications, it is also widely used in modern Arabic without the underlying ...
Nafs. A visual rendition of the Islamic model of the soul showing the position of " nafs " relative to other concepts, based on a consensus of 18 surveyed academic and religious experts [1] Nafs (نَفْس) is an Arabic word occurring in the Quran, literally meaning "self", and has been translated as "psyche", "ego" or "soul". [2][3] The term ...
Separating concepts in Islam from concepts specific to Arab culture, or from the language itself, can be difficult. Many Arabic concepts have an Arabic secular meaning as well as an Islamic meaning. One example is the concept of dawah. Arabic, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts.
The word fiqh is an Arabic term meaning "deep understanding" [7]: 470 or "full comprehension". Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources (which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence.
A manuscript of Ibn Hanbal's Islamic legal writings (Sharia), produced October 879. Hadith[b] (Arabic: حديث, romanized: ḥadīth) or athar (Arabic: أثر, ʾAṯar, lit. 'remnant' or 'effect') [4] is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.
Islam. Salah (Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized: aṣ-Ṣalāh) is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'ah (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'ah varies from prayer to prayer.
In Islamic jurisprudence, qiyas (Arabic: قياس, qiyās [qɪˈjæːs], lit. ' analogy ') is the process of deductive analogy in which the teachings of the hadith are compared and contrasted with those of the Quran, in order to apply a known injunction (nass) to a new circumstance and create a new injunction. Here the ruling of the sunnah and ...
Akhirah. al-Ākhirah (Arabic: الآخرة, derived from Akhir which means last, ultimate, end or close) [1][2] is an Arabic term for "the Hereafter ". [3][4] In Islamic eschatology, on Judgment Day, the natural or temporal world (dunya) will come to an end, the dead will be resurrected from their graves, and God will pronounce judgment on ...