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Rahimahullah ( Arabic: رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ, romanized : raḥimahu llāh, lit. 'God have mercy on him') is a phrase often used after mentioning the righteous Islamic persons who lived after the companions of Muhammad. [ 1] The mention of a late male teacher, scholar, leader, or even a relative who was known for his goodness can be ...
Islam. Islam ( / ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm / IZ-la (h)m; [ 7] Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized : al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Allāhu ʾAkbar ( أكبر) "Allah is [the] greatest". Greater than anything or anyone, imaginable or unimaginable. ʿĀlim ( عالِم) lit. One who knows. A scholar (in any field of knowledge) ; a jurist or scientist (who knows science) or a theologian (who knows religion ); similar to Japanese sensei, "teacher".
The ordinary word in English is "Muslim". For most of the 20th century, the preferred spelling in English was "Moslem", but this has now fallen into disuse. That spelling and its pronunciation was opposed by many Muslims in English-speaking countries because it resembled the Arabic word aẓ-ẓālim (الظَّالِم), meaning "the oppressor ...
The word إسلام ʾislām is a verbal noun derived from s-l-m, meaning "submission" (i.e. entrusting one's wholeness to a higher force), which may be interpreted as humility. "One who submits" is signified by the participle مسلم, Muslim (fem. مسلمة, muslimah). [6] The word is given a number of meanings in the Qur'an.
In 1996, Ali compiled and edited the world's first anthology of English-language ghazals, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2000, as Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. (Fewer than one in ten of the ghazals collected in Real Ghazals in English observe the constraints of the form.) A ghazal is composed of couplets, five or more.
The letter ayn (ع) of the dictionary's title is regarded as phonetically the deepest letter in the Arabic alphabet. In addition the word ayn carries the sense of 'a water source in the desert'. Its title "the source" alludes also to the author's interest in etymology and tracing the meanings of words to their Arabic origins.
Arab Muslims ( Arabic: ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ al-Muslimiyyūn al-ʿArab) are the largest subdivision of the Arab people and the largest ethnic group among Muslims globally, [ 1] followed by Bengalis [ 2][ 3][ 4] and Punjabis. [ 5] Likewise, they comprise the majority of the population of the Arab world. [ 6][ 7]