The term Nām refers to the act of worship of God by Hindus and is also adopted by Sikhs. In Hinduism it is believed that God existed before the creation of the universe. The name of God is therefore beyond the language structure created by mankind. The Nām meaning the name is the internal rhythm, the internal sound that a man experiences, the true name of God, and thus ultimate “Japa” as it is called in Hinduism. See also: Nām Japō and Dhikr, Universal Sufism. This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... A Sikh (IPA: or ; Punjabi: , , IPA: ) is an adherent of Sikhism. ... Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Japa, or Japam, is a spiritual discipline in which a devotee repeats a mantra or the name of the God. ... Nām Japō (Punjabi: ), refers to the meditation, vocal singing of Hymns from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib or of the various Names of God, specially the chanting of the word Waheguru, which means Wonderful Lord. ... Dhikr , ذکر (Zikr in Urdu and Zekr in Persian) (Arabic pronouncement, invocation or remembrance) is the remembrance of God commanded in the Quran for all Muslims. ... the Tughra Inayati, symbol of Universal Sufism Universal Sufism is a spiritual and universalist movement founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan in the early 20th century. ...

In other languages:

• in the Thai Language "Naam" can also mean water.
• in Hindi, Dutch and a few other languages, "Naam" means 'name'.
• in Tamil, "Naam" means 'we'.
• in Arabic, naam means yes.

The Thai language (Thai: , transcription: phasa thai; IPA: ), is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailands dominant ethnic group. ... Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी; IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the official languages of the Union government of India [1][2]. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu... Tamil (Thamizh) is a classical language of the Dravidian language family. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...

See also

• Names of God
• Hare Krishna
• Om
• Vedic Chant