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  2. Adab (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    Adab (Hindustani: آداب , आदाब ), from the Arabic word Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness, is a hand gesture used in the Indian subcontinent, by the Urdu-speaking while greeting. [1] [2] It involves raising the right hand in front of the eyes with palm inwards, while the upper torso is bent forward.

  3. Gift from Hijaz - Wikipedia

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    This work, published a few months after the poet's death, is a fairly small volume containing verses in both Persian and Urdu. It is incomplete, although this is not readily apparent to the reader; for Iqbal left some gaps in the book which he intended to fill when he made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

  4. Namaste - Wikipedia

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    Pressing hands together with a smile to greet namaste – a common cultural gesture in India. Namaste (Sanskrit pronunciation:, [1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [2] [3] [4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [5]

  5. Misbaha - Wikipedia

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    Black Misbaha . A Misbaha (Arabic: مِسْبَحَة, romanized: misbaḥa), subḥa (Arabic: سُبْحَة) (Arabic and Urdu), tusbaḥ (), tasbīḥ (Arabic: تَسْبِيح) (Iran, India, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia), or tespih (Turkish, Bosnian and Albanian) is prayer beads often used by Muslims for the tasbih, the recitation of ...

  6. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The ILY sign, "I Love You" Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme. A man pointing at a photo. Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture ...

  7. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.

  8. Holding hands - Wikipedia

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    A couple holds hands on their fiftieth anniversary George W. Bush and future King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia holding hands. In Western culture, spouses and romantic couples often hold hands as a sign of affection or to express psychological closeness. Non-romantic friends may also hold hands, although acceptance of this varies by culture and ...

  9. Raising hands in dua - Wikipedia

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    Many such scholars hold the view of praiseworthiness of consistently praying dua after fardh Salah with hands raised, as a Sunnah action. For example, according to Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi there is no room for debate: "there around hadiths transmitted in support of this. One finds in Tirmidhi: “In the ritual prayer you beg.