Answer to an Enemy of Islam

salâm: good wish.
salât: ritual prayer.
shafâ’a: intercession in the
hereafter.
shaikh: master, guide; Shaikh
al-Islâm, Head of the
Islamic Affairs Office.
Shâri’: the Prophet (’alaihi ’ssalâm).
-Shî’a (Shî’ites): one of the 72
non-Sunnî groups in Islam.
-Sirât: the Bridge in the
hereafter.
suhba: companionship.
sunna: act (done and liked esp.
by the Prophet as an ’ibâda)
deserving thawâb if done
but sinful if continually
omitted; sunnat mu’akkada,
that rarely omitted by the
Prophet; the Sunna, i) all
the sunnas as a whole; ii)
(with the Book) the Hadîth;
iii) fiqh, Islam.
Sunnî: (one) belonging to Ahl
as-Sunna.
sûra(t): a Qur’ânic chapter.
tâ’a: those acts liked by Allâhu
ta’âlâ but need not be
known that He likes.
Tâbi’ûn: Successors of as-
Sahâbat al-kirâm. Taba’ at-
Tâbi’în, Successors of the
Tâbi’ûn.
tafsîr: (book, science, of)
interpretation of the Qur’ân
al kerîm.
-Tahiyya: first prayer recited at
the sitting posture in salât.
takbîr iftitâh: the phrase
‘Allâhu akbar’.
tasawwuf: Islamic mysticism or
sufism as defined by Islam.
Ta’dhir: a jurisprudential term
in the Islamic penal code. It
includes degrees of
chastisement such as
warning, admonition,
reprimanding, flogging
(which is above Hadd in the
vehemence of strokes, and
below it in their number),
imprisonment, and capital
punishment.
tekke: (Turkish) place where a
shaikh trains his disciples.
thawâb: (unit of) reward
promised for the next world
by Allâhu ta’âlâ as a
recompense for doing or
saying what He likes.
’ulamâ’: pl. of ’âlim.
umma(t): community, body of
believers of a prophet.
’umra: sunna pilgrimage to
Mecca.
usûl: i) methodology or
fundamentals of an Islamic
science, see ’ilm; ii)
methodologies of basic
Islamic sciences; iii) îmân,
kalâm.
wahî: knowledge revealed to
the Prophet from Allâhu
ta’âlâ.
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