glossary of islamic terms.pdf - YasSarNal QuR'aN

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Yacoub, Peace be upon him ّلاَُا ٚ٤ِػ ةٞوؼ٣
Jacob. A prophet of Islam. He was also known as Israel. His
twelve sons each became head of their own tribe and these
were known as the twelve tribes of Israel. Jacob was the son of
Ishaaq, who was the son of Ibrahim (Abraham), peace be on
them. See Mursaleen.
Yahoud The Jews كٝــــــٚ٣
The Jews. This term is correctly used to describe the three
tribes of Israel - the tribes of Judah, Levi and Benjamin - who
after the twelve tribes had escaped from Egypt with Moses,
peace be on him, and settled in the Holy Land, separated from
the other tribes of Israel (who were known as the Israelites) and
became known as the Judahites. The term 'Judahite' was
shortened to 'Judean', which was then eventually shortened to
'Jew'. The Judahite Jews re-wrote and altered the Torah several
times and formulated the Talmud (incorporating the Mishnah,
the Jerusalem Gemara, the Babylonian Gemara and the
Midrash), and their religion became known as Judaism.
'Yahoud' is the Arabic equivalent of 'Judahite'. It is clear,
therefore, that the term 'Yahoud' can only really be correctly
used to describe the Middle Eastern and Sephardhic Jews; and
can only be very loosely applied to the Ashkenazim Jews who
are descended from the turkic Russian tribe of the Khazars who
embraced Judaism in the seventh century, but who were not
originally descended from any of the twelve tribes of Israel. It
is for this reason that some commentators identify the
Ashkenazim Jews with 'Jewj wa Majewj', Gog and Magog,
(since they are 'Jews', but not Judahite Jews), about whom it is
prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39 that they will come from their
place in the far north (Russia), helped by many nations, and
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