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Tamil Muslims are Tamils who practise Islam. The community is 6 million in India, primarily in the state of Tamil Nadu where 90% of the Muslim community identified themselves as Tamils. [1] [2] In Tamil Nadu, the majority of Tamil-speaking Muslims belong to the Rowthers Community while other Muslims live in coastal Tamil Nadu. There is a ...
Mappila Muslim, generally in recent times, is a member of the Muslim community of same name found predominantly in Kerala and Lakshadweep Islands in Southern India, and historically used to identify Muslims from Northern Kerala [ a]. [ 2][ 9] Muslims of Kerala make up 26.56% of the population of the state (2011), and as a religious group they ...
Shirk al-asghar or al-shirk al-khafi ( Arabic: شِرْك ٱلْأَصْغَر, romanized : shirk al-aṣghar; lit. 'lesser shirk' ): concealed or hidden. It is when people perform the necessary rituals but not for God but for the sake of others, including social recognition. [ 37] Hidden shirk might be unwitting, yet punishable, although to a ...
Ghusl ( Arabic: غسل ġusl, IPA: [ˈɣʊsl]) is an Arabic term that means the full-body ritual purification which is mandatory before the performance of various Islamic activities and prayers. For any Muslim, it is performed after sexual intercourse (i.e. it is mustahabb ), before Friday prayer [ 1] and prayers for Islamic holidays, [ 2 ...
The name means "servant of the most gracious", ar-Rahman being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. [1] [2] The letter A of the al-is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. Because the letter R is a sun letter, the letter l of the al-is assimilated to it.
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ, romanized: al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, lit. 'Deceitful Messiah'), [1] otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.
Tablighi Jamaat ( Urdu: تبلیغی جماعتlit. 'Society of Preachers', [ 5][ 6] also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") [ 2][ 3][ 4] is an international Islamic religious movement [ 2][ 3] focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant [ 1] and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their ...
Arwi was an outcome of the cultural synthesis between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims of Tamil Nadu. This language was enriched, promoted and developed in Kayalpattinam. It had a rich body of work in jurisprudence, Sufism, law, medicine and sexology, of which little has been preserved. It was used as a bridge language for Tamil ...