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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.
Publication date. 1940-03-01. Media type. Print ( hardcover and paperback) Pages. 304. Pardah (Urdu: پردہ) is an Islamic Urdu book by Pakistani scholar Abul A'la Maududi. The book was originally published in 1940. It has been translated into several languages and is considered one of the best sellers of the author.
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy. [ 2][ 3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi ( خط عربي ), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction. [ 4]
In Unicode: ( U+262A ☪ STAR AND CRESCENT ) Allah. Means "God" in Arabic and used by Muslims worldwide irrespective of the language spoken. The word written in Islamic calligraphy is widely used as a symbol of Islam in the Muslim world. In Unicode: ( U+FDF2 ﷲ ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM ) Shahadah.
Al-Ikhlas means "the purity" or "the refining". It is disputed whether this is a Meccan or Medinan surah. The former seems more probable, particularly since it seems to have been alluded to by Bilal ibn al-Harith, who, when he was being tortured by his cruel master, is said to have repeated "Ahad, Ahad!"
v. t. e. As-Sirāt ( Arabic: الصراط) is, according to Islam, the bridge over which every person must pass on the Yawm al-Qiyamah ( lit. ' Day of Resurrection ') in order to enter Jannah ( lit. 'Paradise' ). It is mentioned in the Quran, and is described in the Hadith. [2] As-Sirāt is said to be thinner than a strand of hair and as sharp ...
In recent twenty first century, some Muslim Islamic scholars have warned against lending "legitimacy to non-Muslim scholars’ understanding about Islam" by engaging with them, and that even a rigorously scholarly academic work on Islam such as the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam "is filled with insults and disparaging remarks about the Qur’an". [31]
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.