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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, romanized :Usāma bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; 10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he participated in the ...
Taher ( Arabic: طاهر) (spelled Tahir and Tahar in English and French, Тагир in Russian; Pashto, Urdu and Persian: طاهر, Ṭāhir; pronounced [tˤɑːˈher], also [tˤɑːˈhɪr]) is a name meaning "pure" [1] or "virtuous". The origin of this name is Arabic. [2] There are several Semitic variations that include connotations given in Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is traditionally a ...
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 term is cognate with the Hebrew word nephesh, נֶפֶשׁ. In the Quran, the word nafs is used in both the individualistic (verse 2:48) and collective sense (verse 4:1), indicating that ...
Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root JNN (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose primary meaning is 'to hide' or 'to adapt'. Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, 'beings that are concealed from the senses'.
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
Qadiani or Qadiyani ( Urdu: قادیانی, Hindi: क़ादियानी; pronounced [qäː.d̪ɪjäːniː]) is a religious slur used to refer to Ahmadi Muslims, primarily in Pakistan. [1] [2] The term originates from Qadian, a small town in northern India, the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement.
Spirit possession in Islam. Possession by spirits is usually defined as an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. [5] In the Islamic context, such entities are referred to as marrid (demons), bhut (evil spirits), jinn (spirits or ...
This is a list of spiritual entities in Islam. Islamic traditions and mythologies branching of from the Quran state more precisely, about the nature of different spiritual or supernatural creatures. According to a hadith attributed to ibn Abbas, God created four types of intelligent beings; those among whom all will be in paradise - they are the angels; all those who will be in hell-fire ...