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Naʽat ( Bengali: নাত; Punjabi and Urdu: نعت) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The practice is popular in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and India), commonly in Bengali, Punjabi or Urdu. People who recite Naʽat are known as Naʽat Khawan or sanaʽa-khuaʽan. Exclusive "Praise to Allah" and Allah alone is called ...
Yusuf and Zulaikha. Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to ...
Ishq ( Arabic: عشق, romanized : ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent . The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran, which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the ...
Lory states that, in Islamic belief, love is one of the most frequent causes of relationships between humans and jinn Sylvaine Camelin, in her study of exorcism in the Yemeni province of Hadramawt, states: Love seems to be the most frequent occasion of contact between men and jinn.
Islam. In Islam, a houri (English plural houris, / ˈhʊəriz /; from Arabic: حُـورِيَّـة ,حُورِيّ, romanized : ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya ), [Note 1] is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes who is described as a reward for the faithful Muslim men in paradise. [2] They are described as the same age as the men in paradise.
A mazār ( Arabic: مَزَار ), also transliterated as mazaar, also known as marqad ( مَرْقَد) or in the Maghreb as ḍarīḥ ( ضَرِيْح ), is a mausoleum or shrine in some places of the world, typically that of a saint or notable religious leader. Medieval Arabic texts may also use the words mašhad ( مَشْهَد) or maqām ...
Haqiqa is a difficult concept to translate. The book Islamic Philosophical Theology defines it as "what is real, genuine, authentic, what is true in and of itself by dint of metaphysical or cosmic status", which is a valid definition but one that does not explain haqiqa's role in Sufism. Haqiqa may be best defined as the knowledge that comes ...
In Islamic philosophy, the qalb ( Arabic: قلب) or heart is the center of the human personality. The Quran mentions "qalb" 132 times and its root meaning suggests that the heart is always in a state of motion and transformation. According to the Quran and the traditions of Muhammad (SAW), the heart plays a central role in human existence ...