8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

GLOSSARY
Entries related to tasawwuf can be learned best from
Hadrat Ahmad al-Fârûqî as-Sirhindî’s Maktûbât.
-adillat ash-Shar’iyya: the four sources of Islam: al-Qur’ân
al-kerîm, al-Hadîth ash-sherîf, ijmâ’ al-Umma and qiyâs alfuqahâ’.
ahl: people; Ahl al-Bait, immediate relatives of the Prophet:
(according to most ’ulamâ’) ’Alî (first cousin and son-in-law),
Fâtima (daughter), Hasan and Husain (grandsons); ahl albid’a,
ahl as-Sunna(t)wa ’l-Jamâ’a.
a’immat al-madhâhib: pl. of imâm al-madhhab.
Allah: Allâhu akbar, Allâhu ta’âlâ, Allah to whom all kinds
of superiority belong.
Âmin: (to Allâhu ta’âlâ) “accept my prayer.”
-amru bi ’l-ma’rûf (wa ’n-nahyu ’ani ’l-munkar): duty to
teach Allâhu ta’âlâ’s commands (and to prevent or to
disapprove others’ commiting His prohibitions).
-Ansâr: those Medinans who embraced Islam before the
conquest of Mekka.
’aqâ’id: faith, beliefs.
’Arafât: the open space located 24 kilometers north of
Mekka.
’ârif: an ’âlim who knows what is possible to know of
ma’rifa.
-’Arsh: the end of matter bordering the seven skies and the
Kursî which is outside the seventh sky and inside the ’Arsh.
As’hâb al-kahf: the seven Believers (in a cave in Tarsus)
who attained high status because of emigrating to another
place in order not to lose their faith, when disbelievers invaded
their land.
-Basmala: the Arabic phrase “Bismi’llâhi ’r-Rahmâni ’r-
Rahîm” (In the Name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful).
Bâtinî: a follower of the Bâtiniyya heresy.
-Fadîla, -Wasîla: the two highest grades in Paradise.
faqîh: (pl. fuqahâ’) profound scholar of fiqh, fuqahâ’ assab’a.
fard: (act, thing) that is commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ in al-
Qur’ân al-kerîm,
fatwâ: i) ijtihâd (of a mujtahid): ii) conclusion (of a muftî)
from books of fiqh whether something not shown in them is
permitted or not; answer given to religious questions by Islamic
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