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  2. Imam - Wikipedia

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    In everyday terms, an imam for Sunni Muslims is the person charged with leading formal Islamic prayers —even in locations besides the mosque—whenever prayer is performed in a group of two or more. The imam leads the worship and the congregation copies his actions. Friday sermons are most often given by an appointed imam. All mosques have an ...

  3. Islamic religious leaders - Wikipedia

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    Imam is an Arabic word meaning "Leader". The ruler of a country might be called the Imam, for example. The term, however, has important connotations in the Islamic tradition especially in Shia belief. In Sunni belief, the term is used for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs, or schools of religious jurisprudence .

  4. Twelve Imams - Wikipedia

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    According to Twelvers, there is at all times an Imam of the era who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law in the Muslim community. Ali , a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was the first of the Twelve Imams, and, in the Twelvers view, the rightful successor to Muhammad , followed by male descendants of Muhammad ...

  5. Glossary of Islam - Wikipedia

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    ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...

  6. Islam - Wikipedia

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    A Muslim (مُسْلِم), the word for a follower of Islam, [17] 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).

  7. Kanzul Iman - Wikipedia

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    Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan adopted the Urdu translation originally done by Shah Abdul Qadir Dehlvi and wrote the translation in Urdu.It has been subsequently translated into other European and South Asian languages including English, Hindi, Bengali, Dutch, Turkish, Sindhi, Gujarati and Pashto.

  8. Mawlawi (Islamic title) - Wikipedia

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    The word Mawlawi is derived from the Arabic word mawla, which has several meanings, including "lord". Turkish Mawlawi fraternity of Sufis (Muslim mystics) was founded in Konya (Qonya), Anatolia , by the Persian Sufi poet Jalal ad-Din ar- Rumi (d. 1273), whose popular title mawlana ( Arabic for "our master") gave the order its name.

  9. Akhund - Wikipedia

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    The word ruhani means "spiritual, holy". Ruhani is considered a more polite term for Muslim clerics, used by Iranian national television and radio and by devout Muslim families. Akhund is increasingly outmoded in Iran, usually with only the older clerics having the title as part of their name.