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  2. Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'formation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.

  3. Al-Qalam - Wikipedia

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    The difference lies in the style, nature of arguments and the tone adopted. In Surah Mulk, the Quraysh are warned of the Day of Judgement, while in Surah Qalam they are warned of the punishment which a people necessarily face if they deny their punishment of the Day of Judgement, similar is the warning sounded in this sūrah. However, this ...

  4. Tajwid - Wikipedia

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    The history of Quranic recitation is tied to the history of qira'at, as each reciter had their own set of tajwid rules, with much overlap between them.. Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam (774–838 CE) was the first to develop a recorded science for tajwid, giving the rules of tajwid names and putting it into writing in his book called al-Qiraat.

  5. Eight precepts - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, the Eight Precepts (Sanskrit: aṣṭāṇga-śīla or aṣṭā-sīla, Pali: aṭṭhaṅga-sīla or aṭṭha-sīla) is a list of moral precepts that are observed by Nuns, or Upāsakas and Upasikās (lay Buddhists) on Uposatha (observance days) and special occasions.

  6. Continual prayer - Wikipedia

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    The practice of perpetual prayer was inaugurated by the archimandrite Alexander (died about 430), the founder of the monastic Acoemetae or "vigil-keepers".. Laus perennis was imported to Western Europe at St. Maurice's Abbey in Agaunum, where it was carried on, day and night, by several choirs, or turmae, who succeeded each other in the recitation of the divine office, so that prayer went on ...

  7. Inverted nun - Wikipedia

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    The nuns are generally positioned close to, but not touching, the first and last words of the couplet. [5] They are supposed to be positioned between the gaps in between the paragraphs, but there is disagreement as to how this should be done. [6] Some texts invert the existing nuns in the Torah text and don't add inverted nuns before and after ...

  8. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    ☉2 Holy Day and First-Day of the Week (Day of the Sun -> Light -> Resurrection -> Born again) (Christianity) ☉3 Resurrection (Christianity) ☉4 Bazaar Day ☉5 Market Day ☉6 No Work ☉7 Full good day ☉8 Borrowed from English week ☉9 From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.

  9. Benedictine Rite - Wikipedia

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    At Prime on Monday let three Psalms be said, namely Psalms 1, 2 and 6. And so each day at Prime until Sunday let three Psalms be said in numerical order, to Psalm 19, but with Psalms 9 and 17 each divided into two parts. Thus it comes about that the Night Office on Sunday always begins with Psalm 20.