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Many terms found in the Quran, Hadith collections or fiqh books use Arabic words that denote something else than their literal meaning. In those cases, the literal meaning is to be ignored and the word is to denote its Islamic Term meaning. A few example of those are: The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Hadith (Arabic: , Arabic pl. ... Islamic jurisprudence, Fiqh (in Arabic and Persian: فقه) is made up of the rulings of Islamic scholars to direct the lives of the Muslim faithful. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...

  • Islam - The religion of God or peace or submission.
  • Zakat - alms or grow (in goodness) or increase, purifying or making pure. [1]
  • Mut'ah - two other Islamic Terms or joy
  • Salat - contact prayer or to glorify [2]
  • Sawm - Fasting or abstinence
  • Shaitan (or Shaytan) - Satan or Adversary or Separator. [3]
  • Bida innovation of beliefs or a newly invented matter

"That is why for example the words "salat", "zakat", "sawm" and "hajj" are all to be understood according to the precise meaning of the Islamic shari'ah (code), and not according to the literal meaning to be found in the dictionary." (ref) Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest and fastest-growing religion. ... Zakât (or Zakaat or Zakah) (Arabic: زكاة, Old (Quran) Arabic: زكوة) is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam. ... Salah (other terms and spellings exist) (Arabic: صلاه , Old (Quran) Arabic: صلوة ) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. ... Ramadan or Ramadhan (Arabic: رمضان ) is the ninth month of the Islamic year. ... Shaitan is the Arabic (شيطان) word for Adversary, except in different contexts, the word is translated subversely as Separator. It could possibly be a derivation of from שָׂטָן (Hebrew) Satan. ... Definition of Bidah. ...



For a list of all Islamic terms, see List of Islamic terms in Arabic It is sometimes difficult to separate concepts in Islam from concepts specific to Arab culture, or from the language itself. ...


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