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Flashcards by meganlarkin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by meganlarkin
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| Question | Answer |
| shahadah | declaration of faith the first pillar of islam |
| Muzdalifah | the place where pilgrims hold a night prayer and rest during hajj after the stand on mount arafat |
| paradise | a place of perfect happiness, the afterlife |
| Pillars of islam | to believe shahadah, to pray, salah, to give to charity, zakah, to fast sawn, and to go on a pilgimage, Hajj - the five most important duties of a muslim |
| Polygamy | being married to more than one person at once |
| Purdah | complete seclusion, women covering their face and hands when in public |
| Qur'an | the holy book revealed to the prophet muhammad by the angel Jibril, allahs final revelation to human kind |
| rak'ah | actions made during salah cosisting of recitations, standing, bowing and prostration |
| Ramadan | a month of fasting from dawn to sunset (ninth month of the islamic calender) |
| recitation | the act of reciting from memory |
| revelation | Allah showing himself to believers |
| risalah | prophecy |
| salah | prayer and worship of allah - 5 times a day - second pillar of islam |
| Sawm | fasting of all pleasures from dawn till dusk during the 9th month of the islamic calender - ramadan |
| Mu'adhin | the person who calls muslims to prayer |
| Shari'ah | Islamic law based on the qur'an and the sunnah |
| Shi'ah | muslims who believe in the imamah - successorship of ali |
| sunnah | the teachings and deeds of muhammad |
| Sunni | muslims who believe in the successorship of Abu Bakr, umar, uthman and ali |
| Surah | a division (chapter) of the Qur'an there are 144 |
| Tawhid | oneness and unity of allah |
| ummah | the brotherhood of islam |
| Masjid | the mosque |
| minaret | the tower of the mosque that the call to prayer is said from |
| sadaqah | good actions or voluntary payments undertaken for charitable reasons |
| wurdu | ablutions - ritual washing before prayer |
| wuquf | the stand on mount arafat |
| zakah | purification of wealth by giving to the poor - an act of obligatory worship for muslims |
| Hajj | an annual pilgimage to makkah that all muslims must undertake at least once in their life |
| adultery | sex outside marriage where one or both of the couple are married to someone else |
| Allah | Islamic God |
| Akhirah | everlasting life after death |
| Arafat | A plain near Makkah where pilgrims gather to worship, pray and ask for forgiveness on the day before Eid ul Adha |
| arranged marriage | A marriage for which parents take a leading role in choosing the partner |
| compilation | gathering together into one book material from more than one source |
| customs | accepted or habitual practice |
| Day of judgement | the day Allah will decide about individual deeds and reward or punish people |
| discrimination | to act against someone on the basis of sex, race, religion ect |
| du'a | personal prayer |
| Eid ul Adha | Celebration of the prophet ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son to Allah, ends Hajj period |
| Eid ul Fitr | Celebration at the end of Ramadan |
| Hadith | words and action of Muhammad |
| Adhan | call to prayer |
| Halal | any action or thing that is permitted or lawful |
| haram | any action or thing that is not allowed |
| hell | eternal separation from allah |
| Hijab | modest dress for a woman means cover |
| the Hijrah | the emigration of the prophet muhammad from makkah to madinah in 622 CE, the start of the muslim calender |
| Imam | 1.A person who leads communal prayer 2. In Shi'ah the title of Ali and his successors |
| Jumuah | weekly communal salah performed after midday on a friday |
| Ka'aba | the black cube shaped building at the center of the grand mosque in makkah, all muslims always face this when they pray |
| Madinah | From here, muhammad traveled to makkah in 622 CE, the burial place of muhammad |
| Makkah | where muhammad was born - the center of Islam |
| Mihrab | a niche indicating the direction of Makkah |
| Mina | a place visited on Hajj - stoning of pillars |
| Minbar | a pulpit for giving friday sermons |
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