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'place of prostration', also used in Urdu), is a small piece of soil or clay, often a clay tablet, used during salat (Arabic: صلاة, lit. 'Islamic daily prayers') to symbolize earth . [ 1 ] The use of a turbah is recommended ( Arabic : مُسْتَحَبّ , romanized : mustahabb , lit.
Ababil (Arabic: أبابيل, romanized: abābīl) refers to the miraculous birds in Muslim belief mentioned in Surah Al-Fil of the holy Islamic book Quran that protected the Kaaba in Mecca from the Aksumite elephant army of Abraha, then self-styled governor of Himyar, by dropping small clay stones on them as they approached. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. Aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva "Linga" and "Shivling" redirect here. For other uses, see Linga (disambiguation) and Shivling (disambiguation). A lingam with tripundra, projected on a yoni base Part of a series on Shaivism Deities Parameshvara (Supreme being) Shiva ...
Turbah Karbala (Arabic: تربة کربلاء, lit. 'Soil of Karbala'), [1] [2] [3] or Khāk-e Shifā (Lisan al-Dawat, Persian, and Urdu: خاکِ شِفاء, lit. 'Medicinal Soil'), [4] [5] [6] or "Turbah of Imam Hussain" [7] [8] is the soil taken from Hussain ibn Ali's grave in the city of Karbala.
Tayammum (Arabic: تيمم) is an Arabic word that means an aim or purpose. [1] Tayammum is derived from "amma," meaning 'to repair.' [2] In Islamic law, Tayammum means to wipe the face and hands of a person with the purpose of purification for prayer by using soil, purified sand, or dust.
The kindi, a spouted copper vessel traditionally used in Kerala, India. 9th-century spouted vessel, India 10th-century spouted vessel with deities, India The karuwa, a lota-like spouted vessel commonly used for religious rituals and serving water and liquor in Nepal.
The term is also used in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Hebrew, Hindi–Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish, Greek and other languages. [1] In Turkey, it is known by the name nazar boncuğu [2] (the latter word being a derivative of boncuk, "bead" in Turkic, and the former borrowed from Arabic), in Greece it is known as máti (μάτι, 'eye').
Contemporary voodoo doll, with 58 pins. The association of the voodoo doll and the religion of Voodoo was established through the presentation of the latter in Western popular culture during the first half of the 20th century [1] as part of the broader negative depictions of Black and Afro-Caribbean religious practices in the United States. [4]