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Marid, a powerful rebellious demon, who assaults heaven in order to listen to the angels, mentioned in Quran. [31] (Demon) Matatrush, angel guarding the heavenly veil. Jews are blamed for venerating this angel on Rosh Hashanah as a son of god. [32] (Angel) Mika'il, guardian angel of the second heaven. (Angel)
The Arabic word hijāb can be translated as "cover, wrap, curtain, veil, screen, partition", among other meanings. [1] In the Quran it refers to notions of separation, protection and covering in both literal and metaphorical senses. [2] Subsequently, the word has evolved in meaning and now usually denotes a Muslim woman's veil. [2]
The number 4 is a very important number in Islam with many significations: Eid-al-Adha lasts for four days from the 10th to the 14th of Dhul Hijja; there were four Caliphs; there were four Archangels; there are four months in which war is not permitted in Islam; when a woman's husband dies she is to wait for four months and ten days; the Rub el ...
The Maldives became Muslim in the 12th-century but women did not veil: in 1337, the Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta expressed his dislike of the fact that the Muslim women of the Maldives did not veil [225] and only wore a skirt (called feyli) over the lower half of their bodies, and that he had no success in ordering them to cover up. [226]
Muslim scholars disagree about exact criteria for salvation of Muslim and non-Muslim. Although most agree that Muslims will be finally saved – shahids (martyrs) who die in battle, are expected to enter paradise immediately after death [ 5 ] : 40 – non-Muslims are another matter.
In Islam, a houri (/ ˈ h ʊər r i, ˈ h aʊ ə r i /; [1] Arabic: حُـورِيَّـة ,حُورِيّ, romanized: ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya, lit. 'maiden'), [Note 1] or houris or hoor al ayn in plural form, is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes who lives alongside the Muslim faithful in paradise.
'going about') is one of the Islamic rituals of pilgrimage and is compulsory during both the Hajj and Umrah. Pilgrims go around the Kaaba (the most sacred site in Islam) seven times in a counterclockwise direction; the first three at a hurried pace on the outer part of the Mataaf and the latter four times closer to the Kaaba at a leisurely pace ...
Arabic term for the holy book called The Gospel said to have been given to Jesus, who is known as Isa in Arabic; Muslims believe the holy book has been corrupted and modified, and the New Testament gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not the word of Allah, only Christian stories about Jesus. ʾIn shāʾa -llāh (إن شاء الله)