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ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Oxford Dictionary of Islam is a dictionary of Islam, ...
A Muslim (مُسْلِم), the word for a follower of Islam, [16] is the active participle of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". In the Hadith of Gabriel , Islam is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān (faith), and ihsān (excellence).
Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-’islām, pronounced ⓘ is the religion articulated by the Qur’an, a book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of the single incomparable God (Arabic: الله, Allāh), and by the Islamic prophet Muhammad's demonstrations and real-life examples (called the Sunnah, collected through narration of his companions in collections of Hadith).
Research shows that the rituals in the Quran, along with laws such as qisas [149] and tax , developed as an evolution of pre-Islamic Arabian rituals. Arabic words meaning pilgrimage , prayer and charity (zakāt) can be seen in pre-Islamic Safaitic-Arabic inscriptions, [150] and this continuity can be observed in many details, especially in hajj ...
Pages in category "Islamic terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 443 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In its literal meaning, the word refers to interpreting, explaining, expounding, or disclosing. [2] In Islamic contexts, it is defined as understanding and uncovering God's will which has been conveyed by the Quranic text, by means of the Arabic language and one's own knowledge. [3]
"Dunya" is an Arabic word that means "lower or lowest", [1] or "nearer or nearest", [2] which is understood as a reference to the "lower world, this world here below". [3] The term "dunya" is employed to refer to the present world "as it is closest to one’s life as opposed to the life of the Hereafter". [4]