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Numerology is an element of Isma'ili belief that states that numbers have religious meanings. The number seven plays a general role in the theology of the Ismā'īliyya, including mystical speculations that there are seven heavens, seven continents, seven orifices in the skull, seven days in a week, seven prophets, and so forth.
The number 4 is a very important number in Islam with many significations: Eid-al-Adha lasts for four days from the 10th to the 14th of Dhul Hijja; there were four Caliphs; there were four Archangels; there are four months in which war is not permitted in Islam; when a woman's husband dies she is to wait for four months and ten days; the Rub el ...
40 is an abundant number.. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler noted 40 prime numbers generated by the quadratic polynomial + +, with values =,,,...,.These forty prime numbers are the same prime numbers that are generated using the polynomial + with values of from 1 through 40, and are also known in this context as Euler's "lucky" numbers.
Shias and Sunnis as well as some Muslim philosophers believe the meaning of the Quran is not restricted to the literal aspect. [235]: 7 In contrast, Quranic literalism, followed by Salafis and Zahiris, is the belief that the Quran should only be taken at its apparent meaning. [236] [237] Henry Corbin narrates a hadith that goes back to Muhammad:
Although the term al-ʿashara al-mubashsharūn (sometimes also al-mubashshara, [1] both meaning 'the ten to whom glad tidings were given') itself dates from a period after the 9th century, [10] the list of ten as such already appears on an inscription made upon a plaster table which is thought to have belonged to the palace of Khalid al-Qasri, an Umayyad official who served as the governor of ...
Islamic scholars, motivated by a tradition from the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, which promises Divine Rewards for scholars who collect forty traditions, compile hadith narrations in groups of forty. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The best-known example of this genre is Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith , which was written to include all the fundamentals of the sacred ...
The Just Ruler (al-sultān Al-ʻādil) in Shīʻite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511915-0. Tabatabaei, Sayyid Mohammad Hosayn (1975). Shi'ite Islam. Translated by Sayyid Hossein Nasr. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-390-0. Tabatabaei, Sayyid Mohammad Hosayn (1979 ...
[13]: 40 In general, the Quran "is lacking a notion of time as divided into past, present and future." [13]: 40 Therefore, Quranic eschatology cannot be understood through a linear conceptualization of time. [13]: 41 The difference between the earth and the otherworld is not that of time but rather that of space.