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The Quran (39:9) poses a rhetorical question, asking whether those who possess knowledge and those who do not are equal. The answer, according to the Quran, is that only the ūlu’l-albāb (the possessors of intellects) are the ones who remember and understand the significance of God's signs.
Start of the Latin translation in a twelfth-century manuscript. The Masāʾil ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām ('Questions of ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām'), also known as the Book of One Thousand Questions among other titles, is an Arabic treatise on Islam in the form of Muḥammad's answers to questions posed by the Jewish inquirer ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām.
The Arabic phrase Bila Kayf, also pronounced as Bila Kayfa, (Arabic: بلا كيف, romanized: bi-lā kayfa, lit. 'with-no (without) how') is roughly translated as "without asking how", "without knowing how", [1] or "without modality" [2] and refers to the belief that the verses of the Qur'an with an "unapparent meaning" should be accepted as they have come without saying how they are meant or ...
Islamic religious police have arisen in some Muslim majority states and regions (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Aceh province of Indonesia, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran). Between 1996 and 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan [ 110 ] had a Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (at different times called a Committee or a department ...
In Islam, this "primordial covenant" is the metahistorical foundation between God and humankind. [10] The Quran first mentions an 'inner meaning' (ta'wil) in Q18:65–82 in the story of Moses and Khidr, a mystical figure of the ancient Middle East who reluctantly accepts Moses as his traveling student. When Khidr performs strange acts, Moses ...
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 ...
This idle talk brought about a painful headache for Muhammad's companions, until at last they were relieved when Muhammad revealed a verse regarding fighting in the sacred months [10] [11] They ask you ˹O Prophet˺ about fighting in the sacred months (i.e. 1st, 7th, 11th and 12th months of the Islamic calendar).
Zandaqa was viewed as a threat to Islam, to Muslim society, and to the state. [7] In the eighth century, Islamic norms were still under development and had not yet crystallized, and Muslims were still a small minority in the vast territories ruled by the caliphate, and even those who had converted were perceived to have been only "imperfectly ...