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The form Allāhu is a nominative of Allah, meaning 'God'. [10] [11] The takbīr is sometimes translated into English as "God is greater", which is short for "God is greater than all" (الله أَكْبَرُ من كلِّ شيء). It is an example of an Arabic idiom where an incomplete sentence, abbreviated because of its familiarity, is ...
The orthography of the translation therefore replicates the original Arabic meaning so that god is a common noun and God is a unique proper name. [ 10 ] The noun shahādah ( شَهَادَة ), from the verb šahida ( [ʃa.hi.da] شَهِدَ ), from the root š-h-d ( ش-ه-د ) meaning "to observe, witness, testify", translates as "testimony ...
Most consider it to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al-and ilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the deity, the God". [20] Indeed, there is "the interchangeability of al-ilāh and allāh in early Arabic poetry even when composed by the Christian ʿAdī ibn Zayd. [21] The majority of scholars accept this hypothesis.
According to the four accepted Sunni schools of jurisprudence, it is a requirement for the khutbah to be delivered completely in classical Arabic. [7] In the modern era however, preaching in vernacular languages, while often retaining certain Arabic expressions, has become common in contemporary and non-traditional circles. [8]
Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, [16] one of six official languages of the United Nations, [17] and the liturgical language of Islam. [18] Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [18]
Waaq is also a word in Arabic for protector ( واق ) and occurs in the Quran. [12] [13] Some traditions indicate Waaq to be associated with the Harari region. [14] The Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi mentions in his Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya that Waaq used to be a generic name for God, in comparison to the Turkic people’s tenets of Tengri. [15]
The classical definition of tawhid was limited to declaring or preferring belief in one God and the unity of God. [12] Although the monotheistic definition has persisted into modern Arabic, it is now more generally used to connote "unification, union, combination, fusion; standardization, regularization; consolidation, amalgamation, merger". [13]
I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah (God), the One, there is no partner to Him, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger. ʾashhadu ʾan lā ilāha ʾillā -llāhu waḥdahū lā sharīka lahū wa-ʾashhadu ʾanna muḥhammadan ʿabduhū wa-rasūluh ū