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The book makes a case for the significance and obligation of pardah (Hijab, Veil) for Muslim women. The author presents his views on the matter by comparing the status of women in ancient civilizations and modern Western culture with the Islamic civilization. While the central idea of the book is veiling, the book gives detailed accounts of the ...
Naʽat (Urdu: نعت; Bengali: wikt: and Punjabi) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The practice is popular in South Asia (Pakistan) commonly in Urdu. People who recite Naʽat are known as Naʽat Khawan or sanaʽa-khuaʽan. Exclusive "Praise to Allah" and Allah alone is called Hamd, not to be confused with 'Na'at'. [1] [2] [3]
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number approximately 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians.
The first martyr (male or female) in Islam was Sumayyah bint Khayyat, who was executed for her conversion to Islam. She died after Abu Jahl, an anti-Muslim leader of the Quraysh, stabbed her in the abdomen. [39] Though her name is not common in the modern Muslim dialogue, ancient Islamic literature makes note of the events at the end of her ...
As it was illegal for non-Muslims to own Muslims and for non-Muslim men to marry Muslim women in the Ottoman empire, conversion to Islam would have been an option for non-Muslim women to free themselves of a spouse or master they did not want to subject to. [174] However, this would likely lead to them being shunned by their former community. [174]
Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [10] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit.
Translation: Even though in sweetness Hindi* [archaic name for Urdu, lit. "language of India"] is sugar – (but) speech method in Dari [the variety of Persian in Afghanistan] is sweeter * Throughout his life, Iqbal would prefer writing in Persian as he believed it allowed him to fully express philosophical concepts, and it gave him a wider ...
The development of Islamic calligraphy is strongly tied to the Qur'an; chapters and excerpts from the Qur'an are a common and almost universal text upon which Islamic calligraphy is based. Although artistic depictions of people and animals are not explicitly forbidden by the Qur'an, pictures have traditionally been limited in Islamic books in ...