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The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله, Allah). [3] The Quran is divided into chapters (), which are then divided into verses ().
Due to the fact that the Alawites, an ethnoreligious sect of Islam, believe that Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as the physical manifestation of God and due to this, they don't take the shahada as other sectors of Islam. [35] Instead, they state the shahada as "there is no God but Ali" in accordance to their belief. [36]
It is written in response to an incident in which Ibn Taymiyyah heard a Christian insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad [1] [2] in 1294. [3] In 1293 Ibn Taymiyyah was asked by the authorities to issue a fatwa (legal verdict) on Assaf al-Nasrani, a Christian cleric accused of insulting Muhammad.
Aqidah comes from the Semitic root ʿ-q-d, which means "to tie; knot". [6] (" Aqidah" used not only as an expression of a school of Islamic theology or belief system, but as another word for "theology" in Islam, as in: "Theology (Aqidah) covers all beliefs and belief systems of Muslims, including sectarian differences and points of contention".) [7]
This is a list of Islamic texts.The religious texts of Islam include the Quran (the central text), several previous texts (considered by Muslims to be previous revelations from Allah), including the Tawrat revealed to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur revealed to Dawud and the Injil (the Gospel) revealed to Isa (), and the hadith (deeds and sayings ...
ʿAqīdah is an Islamic term meaning "creed" or "belief". [5] Any religious belief system, or creed, can be considered an example of ʿaqīdah. This term has taken a significant technical usage in Muslim history and theology, denoting those matters over which Muslims hold conviction. The term is usually translated as "theology".
Book of Idols by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d.819 AD) Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr by Ibn Sa'd (d.845 AD) Kitab Ma'rifat al-Sahaba by Al-Madini (d.849 AD) Kitab al-Fada'il Sahaba by Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d.855 AD) The Great History by Muhammad al-Bukhari (d.870 AD) Fath al-Buldan by Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d.892 AD)
According to the traditional Islamic narrative, by the time of Uthman's caliphate, there was a perceived need for clarification of Qur'an reading. The holy book had often been spread to others orally by Muslims who had memorized the Quran in its entirety , but now "sharp divergence" had appeared in recitation of the book among Muslims. [7]