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Verse of Ghiba
The Verse of Ghiba (Arabic: آيَة الغِيبَة) or Verse of Backbiting explains the prohibition of backbiting and the reason for it. In this verse, backbiting is likened to eating…
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Niyyah
Niyyah (Arabic: نیّة) means the intention and determination to do something. According to hadiths, the value of any deed is determined by the…
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Al-Tathir Verse
Al-Taṭhīr verse (Arabic: آيَةُ التَّطهير, lit. the Verse of Purification) is a part of verse 33 of Sura al-Ahzab (Qur’an 33) in which…
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Al-Salawat Verse
The Ṣalawāt verse (Arabic: آية الصَلَوات) is the fifty-sixth verse of Sura al-Ahzab (Quran 33), which mentions that God and the angels bless the Prophet (s) and enjoins the believers to ask God to…
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Seeing God
Seeing God, or visual perception of God, (Arabic: رُؤيَة الله) is a theological issue regarding the possibility of seeing God with physical eyes. According to Imami and Mu’tazilite theologians, God cannot…
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Sura al-Fath
Sūra al-Fatḥ (Arabic: سورة الفتح) is the forty eighth sura of the Qur’an. It is a Madani sura in the twenty sixth juz’ of the Qur’an. It is named…
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Qiyama
Al-Qīyāma (Arabic: القيامة) or Day of Judgement, according to Islamic teachings, is a day when, by the will of God, all humans gather in…
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Backbiting
Ghībah (Arabic: غِیبَة, backbiting) is speaking maliciously about someone in one’s absence. It is one of the major sins in Islam which has been explicitly prohibited.…
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Lady Fatimah al-Zahra’ (a)
Fāṭima (a) (Arabic: فاطِمَة) commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrā (a) فاطِمَة الزهراء) (d. 11/632) was the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s) and Lady Khadija (a) and the wife of Imam…
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Worship
Worship or ʿIbāda (Arabic: العبادة) is humble obedience and compliance. It refers to an internal state of human beings in which they find themselves…
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