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In modern times, kafir is sometimes applied to self-professed Muslims, [17] [18] [19] particularly by members of Islamist movements. [20] The act of declaring another self-professed Muslim a kafir is known as takfir, [21] a practice that has been condemned but also employed in theological and political polemics over the centuries. [22]
Al-Kaffarah is a term in Islamic law meaning the expiation of sin, referred to special sanction to compensate for the offense or sin [1] when the particular for violation (evil-doing) or unintentional murder is committed.
Qadariyyah (Arabic: قَدَرِيَّة, romanized: Qadariyya), also Qadarites or Kadarites, from qadar (), meaning "power", [1] [2] was originally a derogatory term designating early Islamic theologians who rejected the concept of predestination in Islam, qadr, and asserted that humans possess absolute free will, making them responsible for their actions, justifying divine punishment and ...
Al-Kāfirūn (Arabic: الكافرون, "The Disbelievers") is the 109th chapter of the Quran.It has six ayat or verses as follows: [1] "Say, “O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship.
Later, their attention shifted to combating the injustices being done to non-Arab converts to Islam. [5] However, the Murji'ah (like the Sunnis in that era) still came to the belief that a legitimate ruler of the Islamic realm not only had to be Arab, but particularly, a descendant of the Quraysh tribe (from whom Muhammad originated).
14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah takfired a number of Muslims and Islamic groups—the Mu'tazila, Shi'a Muslims, Sufis and the Sufi mystic, Ibn Arabi, etc. – he believed to have strayed from true Islam, [4] but he is perhaps best remembered for takfiring the Central Asian Mongols (Tartars) who had invaded the Middle East but also converted ...
Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (Arabic: الفقه الأكبر) or "The Greater Knowledge" is a popular early Islamic text attributed to the Muslim jurist Abu Hanifa.It is one of the few surviving works of Abu Hanifa. [1]
Munafiq is a person who in public and in community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam or speaks against it either in his heart or among the enemies of Islam. The hypocrisy itself is called nifāq (نفاق). [2]