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Ghibah
Ghibah ( ) is backbiting as understood in Islam. It is generally regarded as a major sin in Islam and compared in the Qur'an to 'the abomination of eating the flesh of a dead brother'. Quran There are two verses in the Quran about backbiting. Verse 12 of Surah Al-Hujurat says: Verse 148 of Surah Al-Nisa says: Hadith The hadith defines backbiting and generally advises Muslims not to do it about other Muslims and not to publicize and keep secrets (كتمان الاسرار, kitma'n al-asra'r) of others. Scope of validity Based on the mentioned second verse and some reliable hadiths Islamic jurists including Al-Nawawi in his book Gardens of the Righteous have declared backbiting in 6 cases to be valid - # and seeking justice against a tyrant ruler or oppressor # seeking a solution to a problem from a judicial person or someone reliable, # exposing religious errors while propagating Islam, # about a person engaged in openly persistent deadly sins or Bid'ah whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backbiting
Backbiting or tale-bearing is to slander someone in their absence — to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack from the rear in the blood sport of bearbaiting. Causes Backbiting may occur as a form of release after a confrontation. By insulting the opposing person, the backbiter diminishes them and, by doing so, restores their own self-esteem. A bond may also be established with the confidante if they are receptive to the hostile comment. Such gossip is common in human society as people seek to divert blame and establish their place in the dominance hierarchy. But the backbiting may be perceived as a form of delinquent behaviour due to an inferiority complex. Religious views In most major religions, backbiting is considered a sin. Leaders of the Baháʼí Faith condemned it as the worst of sins as it destroyed the 'life of the soul' and provoked divine wrath. In Buddhism, backbiting goes against the ideal of right speech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hujurat
Al-Hujurat (, The Chambers) is the 49th chapter (''surah'') of the Quran with 18 verses ('' āyāt''). The chapter contains etiquette and norms to be observed in the Muslim community, including the proper conduct towards the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, an injunction against acting on news without verification, a call for peace and reconciliation, as well as injunctions against defamation, suspicion, and backbiting. The chapter also declares a universal brotherhood among Muslims. The thirteenth verse, one of the most famous in the Quran, is understood by Muslim scholars to establish equality with regards to race and origin; only God can determine one's nobility based on his piety. The chapter is a Medinan sura, revealed in the year 9 AH (630 CE) when the nascent Islamic state under the leadership of Muhammad had extended to most of Arabia. Muslim historians linked some of the verses (either verses 2–5 or just 4–5) to the conduct of a Banu Tamim delegation to Muhammad in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahih Bukhari
() is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari () in the format, the work is valued by Sunni Muslims, alongside , as the most authentic after the Qur'an. Al-Bukhari organized the book mostly in the Hijaz at the Sacred Mosque of Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque of Medina and completed the work in Bukhara around 846 (232 AH). The work was examined by his teachers Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini, Yahya ibn Ma'in and others. Content Sources differ on the exact number of hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari, with definitions of hadith varying from a prophetic tradition or sunnah, or a narration of that tradition. Experts have estimated the number of full-'' isnad'' narrations in the Sahih at 7,563, with the number reducing to around 2,600 without considerations to repetitions or different versions of the same hadith. Bukhari chose these narrations from a collection of 600,000 narrations he had collected over 16 years. The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despondence In Islam
Despondence () is one of the major sins in Islam. Disappointment and its derivatives are mentioned six times in the ''Quran''. In some sources, disappointment and despair are distinguished () and that despondency is tougher than despair. Distinctions Disappointment literally means hopelessness. Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran, Al-Raghib al-Isfahani, p.428 Some philologists distinguish disappointment from despair and have written that despondency is tougher than despair.Mu’jam al-forugh al-loghaviah, Abu Hilal al-Askari, Seyyed Noor al-Din al-Jazayeri, pp.435-436 A ḥadīth of Ali al-Ridha states that despair is the second major sin and disappointment is the third major sin and that they are different. Despair is a feeling that is not expressed. When such a feeling is manifested outwardly and becomes obvious to others, it is said to be disappointment. Disappointment in the ''Quran'' Disappointment and its derivatives appear six times in the ''Quran''. For example, when the an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aghori
The Aghori (from , ) are a Hindu monastic order of ascetic Shaivite sadhus based in Uttar Pradesh, India. They are the only surviving sect derived from the '' Kāpālika'' tradition, a Tantric, non-Puranic form of Shaivism which originated in Medieval India between the 4th and 8th century CE. Similarly to their Shaivite predecessors, Aghoris usually engage in post-mortem rituals, often dwell in charnel grounds, smear cremation ashes on their bodies, and use bones from human corpses for crafting '' kapāla'' ( skull cups which Shiva and other Hindu deities are often iconically depicted holding or using) and jewellery. They also practice post-mortem cannibalism, eating flesh from foraged human corpses, including those taken from cremation ghats. Their practices are sometimes considered contradictory to orthodox Hinduism. Many Aghori gurus command great reverence from rural populations and are widely referred to in medieval and modern works of Indian literature, as they are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taqwa
''Taqwa'' ( '' / '') is an Islamic term for being conscious and cognizant of God, of truth, "piety, fear of God." It is often found in the Quran. Those who practice ''taqwa'' — in the words of Ibn Abbas, "believers who avoid shirk with Allah and who work in His obedience" — are called ''muttaqin'' ( '). Quran According to Erik Ohlander, the word ''taqwa'' is used in the Qur'an over 100 times. According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of Islam'', the word ''taqwa'' and its derivatives appear "more than 250 times" in the Qur'an. The imperative form of taqwa is found in the phrase '' Ittaqullah'' ("fear God" or "be aware of Allah"), which is in a number of verses. Benefits of Taqwa in the Quran The Quran says there are benefits of taqwa. Sura at-Talaq Q.65:2-3 says that God will give Muttaqin solutions to their problems. According to Sura al-Anfal Q.8:29, to Muttaqin, God will give them '' furqan'' or conscientious intellect by which they can differentiate between righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nifaq
In Islam, the ''munafiqun'' (, , singular , ''munāfiq'') or false Muslims or false believers are a group decried in the Quran as outward Muslims who were inwardly concealing disbelief ("kufr") and actively sought to undermine the Muslim community. Munafiq is a person who in public and in community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam or speaks against it either in his heart or among the enemies of Islam. The hypocrisy itself is called ''nifāq'' (). Types of hypocrisy * Hypocrisy towards God regarding actual faith. ( Q2:8) and ( Q2:14) * Hypocrisy towards the tenets of faith: for example, somebody may believe in God, Judgment Day, accounting, scales of deeds and Hellfire but not fear them at all or not refrain from committing sins because of them. Yet he claims, "I fear God". * Hypocrisy towards the deeds: Not performing obligatory works properly. * Hypocrisy towards others: somebody is double-faced and double-tongued. He praises someone in their presence, then, beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bid'ah
In Islam and sharia (Islamic law), ( , ) refers to innovation in religious matters. Linguistically, as an Arabic word, the term can be defined more broadly, as "innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy". It is the subject of many hadith commonly used in Muslim texts. The term is also found in the Qur'an, in Surah Al-Hadid as ابتدعوها. Different hadith narrating what Muhammad and early Muslims say about bidah — one of them being: "Avoid novelties for every novelty is an innovation and every innovation is an error"A hadith collected by Abu Dawud al-Sijistani attributed to Muhammad. — are often cited as evidence of Islam's opposition to innovation in religion. The term has been said (by Mehram Kamrava) to have acquired over time "a highly negative, even dreaded connotation" in the Islamic world, where attacks on bidah have resonated with the masses of Muslims. There are a number of disagreements within the Muslim community over interpretations of the concept. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardens Of The Righteous
''Riyad as-Salihin'', ''The Meadows of the Righteous'', or ''The Gardens of the Righteous'' (), is a compilation of verses from the Quran, supplemented by Hadith narratives by Al-Nawawi of Damascus. The Hadith is part of the canonical Arabic collections of Islamic morals, manners, acts of worship. Description ''The Meadows of the Righteous'' (Gardens of the Righteous) by Al-Nawawi contains a total of 1,896 hadith divided across 344 chapters, many of which are introduced by verses of the Quran. Translated By Ibrahim Ma'Rouf. Dar Al-Manarah (Egypt). The text studies the Hadiths to translate the teaching from verses into |
Al-Nawawi
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (; (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', pp.238-239. Scarecrow Press. . Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (''al-Shaykhayn''). Early life He was born at Nawa near Damascus, Syria. As with Arabic and other Semitic languages, the last part of his name refers to his hometown. Yasin bin Yusuf Marakashi, says: "I saw Imam Nawawi at Nawa when he was a youth of ten years of age. Other boys of his age used to force him to play with them, but Imam Nawawi would always avoid the play and would remain busy with the recitation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge. With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (''iurisconsultus''). The English term ''jurist'' is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany, Scandinavia and a number of other countries ''jurist'' denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example Legal education in Norway, in Norway. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadiths
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ( companions in Sunni Islam, Ahl al-Bayt in Shiite Islam). Each hadith is associated with a chain of narrators ()—a lineage of people who reportedly heard and repeated the hadith from which the source of the hadith can be traced. The authentication of hadith became a significant discipline, focusing on the ''isnad'' (chain of narrators) and ''matn'' (main text of the report). This process aimed to address contradictions and questionable statements within certain narrations. Beginning one or two centuries after Muhammad's death, Islamic scholars, known as muhaddiths, compiled hadith into distinct collections that survive in the historical works of writers from the second and third centuries of the Muslim era ( 700−1000 CE). For ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
