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The first significant non-Tatar groups of Muslims arrived in Poland in the 1970s, though they are a very small minority. Today, less than 0.1% of the population in Poland is Muslim. [2] The majority of Muslims in Poland are Sunni. [3][4]
A Muslim (مُسْلِم), the word for a follower of Islam, [ 14 ] is the active participle of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". In the Hadith of Gabriel, Islam is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān (faith), and ihsān (excellence). [ 15 ][ 16 ]
The holiest sites in Islam are located in the Arabian Peninsula. [2] While the significance of most places typically varies depending on the Islamic sect , there is a consensus across all mainstream branches of the religion that affirms two cities as having the highest degree of holiness, in descending order: Mecca , and Medina .
The Quran, [c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allāh). It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses (āyah). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic ...
The word muslim (Arabic: مسلم, IPA: [ˈmʊslɪm]; English: ˈmʌzlɪm, ˈmʊzlɪm, ˈmʊslɪm (MUZZ-lim, MUUZ-lim, MUUSS-lim) or moslemˈmɒzləm, ˈmɒsləm (MOZ-ləm, MOSS-ləm) 72) is the active participle of the same verb of which islām is a verbal noun, based on the triliteral S-L-M "to be whole, intact". 73 74 A female adherent is a ...
Fiqh (/ f iː k /; [1] Arabic: فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence. [2] Fiqh is often described as the style of human understanding and practices of the sharia, [3] that is human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions).
t. e. 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.
A surah (/ ˈsʊərə /; [ 1 ] Arabic: سُورَة, romanized:sūrah; pl.سُوَر, suwar) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. Its plural form in Arabic is suwar. [ 2 ][ 3 ] There are 114 surah in the Quran, each divided into verses (Arabic: آيات, romanized:āyāt, lit. 'signs'). The suwar are of unequal length; the shortest ...