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The Six Kalmas (Urdu: چھ کلمے chh kalme, Arabic: ٱلكَلِمَات ٱلسِتّ al-kalimāt as-sitt, also spelled qalmah), also known as the Six Traditions or the Six Phrases, are six Islamic phrases often recited by Pakistani Muslims. [1]
The Shahada has been traditionally recited in the Sufi ceremony of dhikr (Arabic: ذِکْر, "remembrance"), a ritual that resembles mantras found in many other religious traditions. [33] During the ceremony, the Shahada may be repeated thousands of times, sometimes in the shortened form of the first phrase where the word 'Allah' ("God") is ...
Mirza Tahir Ahmad (مرزا طاہر احمد; 18 December 1928 – 19 April 2003) was the fourth caliph (Arabic: خليفة المسيح الرابع, khalīfatul masīh al-rābi) and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the fourth successor of the founder of the community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
The kāmil metre has been used for Arabic poetry since early times and accounts for about 18%-20% of the poems in early collections. [1] Two of the famous seven pre-Islamic Mu‘allaqāt poems (the 4th and 6th) are written in the kāmil metre. [4] One of these is the mu‘allaqa of Labid ibn Rabi‘a, which begins as follows:
Kalima (from Arabic: كلمة, kalimah, "word") may refer to: The Six Kalimas, texts to memorize to learn the fundamentals of Islam; Kalima (band), a Manchester jazz-funk band on Factory Records Kalima!, the second album by Kalima; Kalima, a Moroccan magazine "Kalima", a track by Elvin Jones on his 1978 album Remembrance
Members of Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya swear an oath of allegiance to their faith, country and nation and reaffirm this oath in formal gatherings. When the pledge is reaffirmed in a formal gathering, the shahadah is recited out aloud three times in Arabic, followed by its translation in the native language of the country and then the rest of the pledge is read out in the native language: [2]
Ilm al-kalam [a] or ilm al-lahut, [b] often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (). [2] It can also be defined as the science that studies the fundamental doctrines of Islamic faith (usul al-din), proving their validity, or refuting doubts regarding them. [3]
The word rukn in Arabic refers to the corner of a building and the pillars are called umud. It is also used to refer to the basic elements or first principles of something. The arkan in military terms refers to the general staff. Thus, the translation "five principles of Islam" is more accurate than "five pillars of Islam." [9]