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As a pre-Islamic term it described farmers burying seeds in the ground. One of its applications in the Quran has also the same meaning as farmer. [35] Since farmers cover the seeds with soil while planting, the word kāfir implies a person who hides or covers. [11] Ideologically, it implies a person who hides or covers the truth.
Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]
Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
Possibly from the Arab word kafir meaning 'non-Muslim' or 'infidel', perhaps originating in the East African slave trade which was largely run by Arabians and migrating to South Africa.] [92] Kebab (UK and Europe) a Turkish person. Derived from traditional Turkish food. Kash Root
Infidel A term used generally for non-believers. [122] Kafir A person who is a non believer. [123] Used by some Muslims. [124] Not to be confused with the South-African slur Kaffir. Murtad A word meaning people who left Islam, mainly critics of Islam. [125] Mushrik
Assad became president in 2000 after his father Hafez died, preserving the family's iron-fisted rule and the dominance of their Alawite sect in the Sunni Muslim-majority country and Syria's status ...
In time, Muslim theologians came to apply zindiq to "the criminal dissident—the professing Muslim who holds beliefs or follows practices contrary to the central beliefs of Islam and is therefore to be regarded as an apostate and an infidel. The jurists differ as to the theoretical formulation of the point of exclusion, but in fact usually ...
President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable when his allies were distracted by ...