Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Category:Prophecy in Islam. Islam portal. v. t. e. Ashura ( Arabic: عَاشُورَاء, ʿĀshūrāʾ, [ʕaːʃuːˈraːʔ]) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. For Sunni Muslims, Ashura marks the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the ...
Nafs. A visual rendition of the Islamic model of the soul showing the position of " nafs " relative to other concepts, based on a consensus of 18 surveyed academic and religious experts [ 1] Nafs ( نَفْس) is an Arabic word occurring in the Quran, literally meaning "self", and has been translated as "psyche", "ego" or "soul". [ 2][ 3] The ...
Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya or Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam ( Urdu: اردو دائرہ معارف اسلامیہ) is the largest Islamic encyclopedia published in Urdu by University of the Punjab. Originally it is a translated, expanded and revised version of Encyclopedia of Islam. Its composition began in the 1950s at University of the Punjab.
Suhur, Sahur, or Suhoor (UK: / s ə ˈ h ɜːr /; [1] Arabic: سحور, romanized: suḥūr, lit. 'of the dawn', 'pre-dawn meal'), also called Sahari , Sahri , or Sehri ( Persian : سحری ) is the meal consumed early in the morning by Muslims before fasting ( sawm ), before dawn during or outside the Islamic month of Ramadan . [ 2 ]
Islam. Fiqh ( / fiːk /; [ 1] Arabic: فقه [fiqh]) is Islamic jurisprudence. [ 2] Fiqh is often described as the human understanding and practices of the sharia, [ 3] that is human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions).
[101] [107] According to Farhad Nomani, in studying scholarly "commentaries, one notes that the technical, and even to some extent the customary meaning of riba as a practice in pre-Islamic era, is a matter of controversy among classical jurists and the interpreters of the Qur'an." [108] Other classical jurists ("like al-Baji and al-Tawwafi, to ...
Islam. Salah ( Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized : aṣ-Ṣalāh) is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'ah (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'ah varies from prayer to prayer.
The ism ( اسم) is the given name, first name, or personal name; e.g. "Ahmad" or "Fatima". Most Arabic names have meaning as ordinary adjectives and nouns, and are often aspirational of character. For example, Muhammad means 'Praiseworthy' and Ali means 'Exalted' or 'High'.