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Adhan:	The call to prayer (n.) {The Prophet approved a system of ~ in the following order: God is Greatest. God is Greatest. God is Greatest. God is Greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but God. I bear witness that there is no god but God. I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger. I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger. Come to prayer. Come to prayer. Come to success. Come to success. God is Greatest. God is Greatest. There is no god but God.} When the call is made for the early morning prayer (fajr), the following is added after 'Come to success': {Prayer is better than sleep. Prayer is better than sleep.}
Du'a:	Suppliance (n.); Supplication (n.) {~ before eating: In the name of God.}
Fajr:	Dawn (n.) {~ prayer is the first of the five daily prayers.}
Fard:	Compulsory (n.); Obligatory (n.) {The five daily prayers are ~.}; {The ~ prayer should preferably be offered in congregation.}
Fatwã:	A legal judgment in accordance with the Islamic law (n.) {One qualified to give a ~ is a Muftí.}
Hadith:	It is a unit of the sunnah of which conveying a report about the Prophet.
Hijra:	The Migration of the Prophet from Makkah to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 AD.
Ibadah:	Ibadah: Worship (n.) Ibadat: pl. of Worship
Ij'tehad:	Creative intellectual effort (n.)
Imãn:	Faith (n.) {The ~ is what is settled in heart, and approved by deeds.}
Iqamah:	The call to entrance into prayer (n.) {The ~ wording: God is Greatest. God is Greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but God. I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger. Come to prayer. Come to success. The prayer has begun. The prayer has begun. God is Greatest. God is Greatest. There is no god but God.}
Isra':	The Night Journey of the Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Jerusalem. (Qur'an 17:1)
Ka'ba:	A square-shaped building in the centre of the Great Mosque at Makkah, in the direction of which Muslims must face when praying (n.) {The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka (Makkah): Full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings. (Qur'an 3:96)}
Masjid:	Mosque (n.) {~ is the Muslim place of prayer ritual.} {Did not God check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and ~s, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure. (Qur'an 22:40)}
Mi'raj:	Ascension (n.) {The Prophet's ~ from Jerusalem through the Seven Heavens.}
Muftí:	A person who delivers a fatwã (n.)
Qiyas:	Juristic reasoning; Inference; Deduction (n.)
Qiblah:	A direction to which Muslims turn in prayer toward the Ka'ba (n.)
Qunut:	Submissiveness (n.); Devotion (n.); Prayer (n.); Worship (n.); Supplication (n.) {In worship sense, ~ is invocation in a Prayer Ritual.}
Ramadan:	The 9th lunar month according to the Islamic calendar (n.)
Ruku':	Rak'ah: A complete unit of a prayer that consists of one ruku' and two sajdahs. Raka'a: past of Bow Ruku': Bow (n.); Bowing (n.) {A forward bending of the head or upper body in prayer.} Yark'a: Bow (vi;t) {Muslims ~ to God alone.}
Sahar:	Sahar (n.) Time before daybreak Sahur (n.) Last (light) meal before daybreak during the month of Ramadan. Tasahhar: *imperative* of Tasahhara Tasahhara: *past* of Yatasahhar Yatasahhar (present for masc. gender) To have a light meal (shortly before daybreak during Ramadan); Tatasahhar: (present **for fem. gender)**
Salaf:	Salaf: pl. of Traditionalist. Salafi: Tradition (n.); Traditionalist (n.) Salafiyya: Traditionalism (n.)
Salah:	Prayer Ritual (n.) {~ constitutes one of five pillars of Islam and is considered the foundation of the religion.}
Shahãda:	Declaration of Faith (n.) The context of declaration of faith is: There is no god but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God. {~ is the first of the five pillars of Islam.}
Shirk:	Polytheism (n.) {for ~ is indeed the highest wrong-doing. (Qur'an 31:13)}
Sujud:	Sajada: Prostrated past of prostrate. Sajdah: (see sujud) Sajid: Prostrate (n.); Prostrator (n) rare. {A person who prostrates} Sajidan: Prostrate (adj.) {Muslims lay ~ in their prayer} Sujida: Prostrated past part. of prostrate. Sujud: Prostration (n.). {The action or an act of prostrating oneself} Yasjud: Prostrate (vt.) {Muslims ~ in their prayer}
Sunnah:	It is a collection of the Prophet's sayings and deeds, including his opinions about matters, as well as the practices of his companions. The sunnah occupies a place second to the Qur'an. {According to the ~, naming the newborn is on the seventh day from its birth.}; {Where the Qur'anic statement is general, the ~ particularizes it to make it applicable.}
Tahnik:	Chewing a piece of date until it is mellow and rubbing it with the child's gum (n.)
Taqwa:	Taqi: Pietist (n.) Taqwa: Piety (n.)
Taurat:	(see Tawrat)
Tawaf:	Tawaf: Circumambulation (n.) {~ is one of the important rituals in the pilgrimage.} Ya'tuf: Circumambulate (vt.;i.) {Pilgrims ~ seven times around the Ka'ba.}
Tawhid:	Monotheism (n.) {~ is the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.}
Tawrat:	Torah (n.); The Law (n.). {(Jesus): And confirming that which was before me of the ~. (Qur'an 3:50)}
Witr:	The last element of the evening prayer (n.)
Wudu:	Ablution (n.) {~ is essential for performing salah. The common practice of ~ is the following: 1. Make intention 2. Wash the mouth with handful of water (three times) 3. Sniff water into nostrils (three times) 4. Wash the whole face (three times) 5. Wash both arms to the elbow, starting with the right (three times) 6. Rub the head starting from front to back with the palm of the wet hand 7. Rub the grooves of the ears with wet fingers 8. Wash both feet to the ankles, starting with the right.}

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