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According to Islamic scholar Muhammad Shafi Usmani, God has created three media through which human receive knowledge: the senses, the faculty of reason, and the divine revelation; and it is the third one that addresses the liturgical and eschatological issues, answers the questions regarding God's purpose behind creating mankind, and acts as a guidance for the mankind as to choosing the ...
Because the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religiously inappropriate, theophoric names are formed by prefixing the term ˁabd (عَبْدُ: "slave/servant of") to the name in the case of male names;
Al-Andalus [a] (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France.
Al-Malḥamat Al-Kubra (Arabic: الملحمة الكبرى) is an apocalyptic great battle to occur in the end times according to Islamic eschatology.The Malhama Al-Kubra is prophesied to be the most brutal battle in human history.
Usually, in Muslim-majority cultures, animals have names (one animal may be given several names), which are often interchangeable with the names of people. Muslim names or titles like asad and ghadanfar (Arabic for lion), shir and arslan (Persian and Turkish for lion, respectively) and fahad (which could mean either a cheetah or leopard ...
Pakistan is an ideological state and the only country to have been created in the name of Islam. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Indian scholar, Venkat Dhulipala, in his book Creating a New Medina , unequivocally attests that Pakistan was meant to be a new Medina , an Islamic state, and not merely a state for Muslims.
There are a variety of titles used to refer to the penultimate prophet of Islam, Isa ibn Maryam , in the Quran.Islamic scholars emphasize the need for Muslims to follow the name of Isa , whether spoken or written, with the honorific phrase alayhi al-salām (Arabic: عليه السلام), which means peace be upon him.
Name Image Origin Period CE School of Sect Philosophy Al-Kindi: Iraqi 801–873 He was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and was considered as the "father of Arabic philosophy". [6] [7] [8] He was famous for promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world. [9]