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Flashcards by Alexander Sim, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alexander Sim
over 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Akhira | life after death. |
| Allah | the God - affirms that there is only one God. |
| Caliph | the four successors of Muhammad - ’rightly guided’; ‘defenders of the faith’. |
| Five Pillars | foundation of faith - confessions of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage. |
| Hadith | recorded traditions which maintain sayings/examples (Sunnah) of Muhammad. |
| Haram | those things that are forbidden |
| Islam | ‘submission’ to the will of God; a further meaning is ‘peace’. |
| Jurisprudence | the process/science of interpreting Qur’an and Hadith to arrive at a correct decision. |
| Ka’ba | located in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site; the Qur’an states that it was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael |
| Mecca | birthplace of Muhammad-place of sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims |
| Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim calendar when able adults undertake rigorous fasting |
| Salat | prayer-five times daily which assists adherents over their whole day in submission to Allah |
| Shahada | the first Pillar: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. |
| Shari’a | law that defines the path a Muslim must follow in life. |
| Sunnah | the acts and sayings of the Prophet; source of teaching after the Qur’an. |
| Sunni | path’- the way of Muhammad; approximately 85% of Muslims are Sunni; accepts all four caliphs. |
| Shi’ia | ‘the party of Ali’; emphasis on suffering; specific system of law; majority of expression in Islam. |
| Tawaf | circling the Ka’ba during Hajj. |
| Tawhid | there is only one God and only this one God can be worshipped; pivotal belief of Islam. |
| Ummah | the universal community of Islam. |
| Zakat | a tax to provide for the needs of the poor and needy; usually 2.5% of a person’s income. |
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