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Flashcards by SImran Gill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by SImran Gill
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Akhira | Life after death |
| Allah | The God - affirms that there is only one God |
| Caliph | The 4 successors of Mohammed - 'rightly guided' 'defenders of the faith' |
| Five Pillars | the foundation of faith - confessions of prayer, faith, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage |
| Hadith | those things that are forbidden |
| Islam | submission to the will of God; a further meaning is peace |
| Hadith | recorded traditions which maintain sayings/examples (Sunnah) of Muhammad. |
| Jurisprudence | the process/science of interpreting Qur’an and Hadith to arrive at a correct decision. |
| Ka'ba | located in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site; the Qur’an states that it was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael. |
| Makka | birthplace of Muhammad-place of sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims. |
| Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim calendar when able adults undertake rigorous fasting. |
| Salat | prayer-five times daily which assists adherents over their whole day in submission to Allah. |
| Shahada | the first Pillar: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. |
| Shari'a | the law that defines the path a Muslim must follow in life. |
| Sunnah | the acts and sayings of the Prophet; source of teaching after the Qur’an. |
| Sunni | ‘path’- the way of Muhammad; approximately 85% of Muslims are Sunni; accepts all four caliphs. |
| Shi'ia | ‘the party of Ali’; emphasis on suffering; a specific system of law; the majority of expression in Islam. |
| Tawaf | circling the Ka’ba during Hajj. |
| Tawhid | there is only one God and only this one God can be worshipped; pivotal belief of Islam. |
| ummah | the universal community of Islam. |
| Z | a tax to provide for the needs of the poor and needy; usually 2.5% of a person’s income. |
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