Aqida Glossary

عادة

'Ada

What people persist upon by a rational ruling, returning times after t...

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عجز

'Ajz

Capacity’s absence for the possible without interdiction’s hindrance: ...

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عِنّين

'Annin

He who cannot perform intercourse, or reaches only the non-virgin with...

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عُصْبَة

'Asaba

The osier, a plant winding about the tree. The stubborn arrow of a man...

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أب

Ab

A being generated of another individual’s seed of its kind....

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أهل الأهواء

Ahl al-Ahwa'

The people of the qibla whose creed is not the creed of the people of ...

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أهل السنة والجماعة

Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'a

The Muslims who follow the Sunna and the community....

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آل

Al

Its origin ahl, the proof ouhila: the diminutive testing wordings, kno...

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عقيدة

Al-'Aqida

What the Muslim believes of the foundations of faith....

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أَرْبَعَة المتناسبة

Al-aarbaʿaa al-mtnasba

What is meant by this in the preamble of Khulasat al-Hisab is Ali, Fat...

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أجرام

Al-ajram

Plural of jarm with a kasra on the jim, applied to the celestial spher...

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أنس

Al-ans

Anisa bihi wa ilayhi anasan: he found tranquility in him or her, and h...

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أنثى

Al-anthā

The lower of the two categories of mating animals, according to Al-Hur...

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انتظام

Al-antẓam

The assessment and management of affairs according to interests....

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اقتضاب

Al-aqtḍab

Linguistically, it means cutting off and departing. In customary usage...

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أسلوب الْحَكِيم

Al-aslwb al-ḥakiym

It is the presentation of what is more important, implicitly pointing ...

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استعارة المكنية

Al-astʿara al-mknya

It is the implicit comparison of one thing to another in the heart....

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اتفاق

Al-atfaq

Its conformity with divine assistance (at-tawfiq) in happiness and mis...

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أعراف

Al-aʿraf

It is the vantage point, and it is the station of witnessing the Truth...

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أطرافية

Al-aṭrafya

They excused the inhabitants of peripheral regions for what they were ...

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بعث

Al-ba'th

The return (al-ma'ad) and the gathering (al-hashr) share one meaning: ...

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بذاء

Al-bdhaʾ

Vile and abusive speech....

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بذل

Al-bdhl

To be happy in giving....

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بغض

Al-bghḍ

It is the aversion of the soul from a thing which is shunned. It is th...

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بدعة

Al-bid'a

It is the deed contrary to the Sunna; it was called bid'a because its ...

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بله

Al-blh

The lack of attentiveness regarding worldly matters....

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براذين

Al-bradhyn

Plural of baradhun, which is the horse of the non-Arabs....

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برهان التطبيقي

Al-brhan al-tṭbyqy

It is to suppose, starting from the final effect onwards to infinity, ...

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بسيطة

Al-bsyṭa

The directed proposition whose meaning is either pure affirmation only...

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بسط

Al-bsṭ

A meaning that presents itself to perceive a beloved present at the ti...

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بواده

Al-bwadh

That which suddenly strikes the heart from the unseen at first glance,...

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بحران

Al-bḥran

A great change occurring suddenly, leading either to health or to ruin...

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دائمة المطلقة

Al-daʾma al-mṭlqa

It is that in which it is judged that the predicate is constantly affi...

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ذبذب

Al-dhbdhb

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah), because it oscillates, meaning it moves,...

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دقيقة

Al-dqyqa

And it is the subtle secret that not everyone discovers, so the rank o...

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دراية

Al-draya

Knowledge perceived through a kind of stratagem, which consists of put...

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دعوة التامة

Al-dʿwa al-tama

It is the call of the adhan, so named for its completeness and the gre...

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فاصلة الكبرى

Al-faṣla al-kbrā

It is four moved letters followed by a quiescent one, as: balaghoukoum...

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فاصلة الصغرى

Al-faṣla al-ṣghrā

It is three moved letters followed by a quiescent one, as: balagha, ya...

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فقه

Al-fiqh

In language: understanding the speaker's intent from his words. In usa...

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فريضة

Al-fryḍa

On the fa'ila pattern of farad, which in language means determination;...

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فتوة

Al-ftwa

In language: generosity and magnanimity; in the vocabulary of the peop...

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فواق

Al-fwaq

In Persian: shchak; in Hindi: hikki. It is the movement of the parts o...

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فيض الأقدس

Al-fyḍ al-aqds

It is the essential sensible manifestation causing the existence of th...

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فزع

Al-fzʿ

That which seizes a person in the face of a terrifying thing....

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فطنة

Al-fṭna

Like understanding, Al-Jawhari said it, and As-Sa'di said: the man sho...

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غَلَبَة

Al-ghalabaa

In nominal terminology, it is of two types: dominance in attributes an...

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غَلَط

Al-ghalaṭ

That which is contrary to reality. The author of Al-Khayalat al-Latifa...

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غَرِيب

Al-ghariyb

The needy, the traveler, and the rare thing. According to hadith schol...

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غب

Al-ghb

With a kasrah, it is the outcome and, among fevers, the one that strik...

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غباوة

Al-ghbawa

In equity, and in intelligence too....

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غرور

Al-ghrwr

It is the soul's settling into what accords with vain desire and towar...

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غريب من الحديث

Al-ghryb mn al-ḥdyth

That whose chain of transmission is continuously linked to the Messeng...

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غشاوة

Al-ghshawa

That which settles on the face of the heart's mirror as rust, blunts t...

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غشي

Al-ghshy

A state in which sensation and movement are suspended due to a weaknes...

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غين

Al-ghyn

Below the rayn, which is rust; for rust is a thin veil that disappears...

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حديث

Al-hadith

In language: the opposite of the ancient, for it renews one thing afte...

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حج

Al-hajj

Heading towards the greatly honoured thing; and in the Law: setting ou...

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حلال

Al-halal

Anything whose use entails no punishment....

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حرام

Al-haram

In Persian: "buzurg-o-niru", meaning: forbidden. Some knowers said tha...

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هباء

Al-hbaʾ

It is that in which Allah opened the bodies of the world, while having...

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حساب

Al-hisab

In language (in Persian: "counting"). And the science of calculation (...

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هجوم

Al-hjwm

That which comes upon the heart with the force of the moment, without ...

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هيبة

Al-hyba

Awe that induces submission, arising from the perception of an immense...

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اسْتِعَارَة الْمُطلقَة

Al-iastiʿaaraa al-muṭlqaa

And the bare metaphorical borrowing and the reinforced metaphorical bo...

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إحسان

Al-ihsan

It is the realization of servanthood through witnessing the Presence o...

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إِشْعَار

Al-iishʿaar

Notification and notifying the sacrificial camel consist of informing ...

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إكفاء

Al-ikfaʾ

The variation of the rawiyy letter in a single poem....

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إخلاص

Al-ikhlas

In language: abandoning ostentation in acts of worship. In usage: puri...

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إلمام

Al-ilmam

Regarding al-moharram....

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إلياس

Al-ilyas

It is used to express constriction, for he is Idris, and due to his as...

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إمامان

Al-imaman

The two persons, one of whom is to the right of the Ghawth, meaning th...

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إمامية

Al-imamya

They are those who affirmed the existence of an explicit text designat...

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إيمان

Al-iman

In language: affirmation of the heart. In the Law: belief of the heart...

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إنابة

Al-inaba

Extracting the heart from the darkness of ambiguities. And it has been...

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إنسان الكامل

Al-insan al-kaml

He is the summation of all divine and cosmic worlds, universal and par...

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إرسال

Al-irsal-

(Placing and sending). Al-irsal in hadith is the absence of the isnad,...

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إرصاد

Al-irṣad

In al-Mutawwal: posting a watchman on the road; but in truth, in langu...

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إشفاق

Al-ishfaq

That which affects the soul upon the loss of a beloved object or perso...

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إشمام

Al-ishmam

To shape the lips for the pronunciation of damma without actually utte...

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إسلام

Al-islam

Humility and submission to what the Messenger (may Allah's peace and b...

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إيثار

Al-iythar

To prefer others over oneself in bringing benefit and warding off harm...

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إضمار قبل الذكر

Al-iḍmar qbl al-dhkr

It is permissible in five instances: the first is in the pronoun of th...

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إحداث

Al-iḥdath

The bringing into existence of a thing preceded by time....

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إحرام

Al-iḥram

The intention to perform Hajj, Umrah, or both, at a specified location...

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جَنَائِز

Al-janaaʾiz

Plural of janaza. With a fath on the jim, it designates the deceased, ...

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جنة

Al-janna

It is the abode of bliss in the hereafter; from ijtinan, meaning cover...

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جارودية

Al-jarwdya

They are the companions of Abu al-Jarud. They asserted the existence o...

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جَوْهَر الْفَرد

Al-jawhar al-fard

Concerning the part that cannot be divided, and may Allah bless the po...

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جدي

Al-jdy

With a fatha and sometimes a kasra, the male offspring of a goat when ...

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جهل البسيط

Al-jhl al-bsyṭ

It is the absence of knowledge regarding that which one is expected to...

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جمع مَعَ التَّفْرِيق

Al-jmʿ maʿa al-tafriyq

According to the masters of rhetoric, it consists of bringing two thin...

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جمع مَعَ التَّقْسِيم

Al-jmʿ maʿa al-taqsiym

According to the masters of rhetoric, it is the grouping of multiple e...

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جرب

Al-jrb

Roughness that occurs inside the eyelids and harms the pupil....

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جرح المجرد

Al-jrḥ al-mjrd

It is that by which a witness is declared corrupt, without necessitati...

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جُزْء الَّذِي لَا يتجزئ

Al-juzʾ al-adhiy laa ytjzʾ

The unique substratum and the essential point are synonyms: a substrat...

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جوزهر

Al-jwzhr

Arabization of al-kawzahar, which is a point on the surface of the Moo...

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جزئي

Al-jzʾy

That which applies through homonymy to that whose very conception prev...

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جزع

Al-jzʿ

What affects one during a painful matter....

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جحد

Al-jḥd

That which is required by lam for the negation of the past, and this c...

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كابوس

Al-kabws

It is when a person imagines in their sleep a vision that weighs upon ...

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خَسْف

Al-khasf

With a fathah, to sink. Hence the expression khasafa al-makan (the pla...

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خبر نوعان

Al-khbr nwʿan

Mursal (loose) and Musnad (supported). The Mursal is that which the na...

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خذلان

Al-khdhlan

The creation of the capacity to commit sin....

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خفقان

Al-khfqan

Palpitation that affects the heart in order for it to repel what harms...

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خلفة

Al-khlfa

The followers of Khalaf al-Khariji judged that the children of the pol...

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خلْطَةُ

Al-khlṭaau

It is the partnership, and it is of two types: First: The mixing of ph...

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خماسي

Al-khmasy

That whose past tense consists of five radical letters, such as: jahma...

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خمود

Al-khmwd

In justice, if Allah the Most High wills....

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خرم

Al-khrm

It is the deletion of the mim from mafailun leaving failun, then it is...

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خشوع والخضوع والتواضع

Al-khshwʿ wal-khḍwʿ wal-twaḍʿ

They have the same meaning, and in the terminology of the people of tr...

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خشوع

Al-khushu'

In language: a masdar taken from khashi'a, which is stillness, serenit...

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خيلاء

Al-khylaʾ

With a damma on the dotted Kha and an elongated alif on the measure of...

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خضر

Al-khḍr

It is used to express expansion and despair of contraction, for his te...

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خصم

Al-khṣm

With the dotted kha vocalized with a fatha, enemy. The plaintiff and t...

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كِنَايَات

Al-kinaayaat

Plural of kinayah, which in language means an expression denoting a sp...

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كلمات القولية والوجودية

Al-klmat al-qwlya wal-wjwdya

An expression denoting determinations occurring upon the soul; the ver...

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كيفيات النفسانية

Al-kyfyat al-nfsanya

It has been said: They are the qualities specific to the essences of a...

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كيس

Al-kys

The ability to properly deduce what is most appropriate in attaining g...

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لازم البين

Al-lazm al-byn

It is that whose conception, along with that of its implicate, suffice...

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لازم الغير البين

Al-lazm al-ghyr al-byn

It is that whose certainty of the mind regarding mutual implication re...

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لفيف

Al-lfyf

That which contains two weak letters....

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لفيف المفروق

Al-lfyf al-mfrwq

That whose first and last radical letters are weak, like the verb waqa...

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لفيف المقرون

Al-lfyf al-mqrwn

That whose middle letter and final letter are weak letters, such as qa...

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لغو

Al-lghw

Speech whose consideration is void, and which has no meaning regarding...

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لغْو من اليمين

Al-lghw mn al-ymyn

It is when one swears an oath regarding something while believing it t...

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لقوة

Al-lqwa

A mechanical disease whereby one side of the face is drawn toward an a...

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لوامع

Al-lwamʿ

Radiant lights that shine for beginners among those with weak and appa...

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لوائح

Al-lwaʾḥ

The signs of the rising of the suns of knowledges whose disappearance ...

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لوح

Al-lwḥ

It is the Manifest Book and the Universal Soul. The Tablets are four: ...

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لحن

Al-lḥn

Disliked in the Quran and the call to prayer, and it is the prolongati...

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لطيفة الإنسانية

Al-lṭyfa al-insanya

It is the speaking soul named by them as the heart. In reality, it is ...

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مَادَّة

Al-maadaa

It is the hyle (prime matter), and it is the locus of substance, wheth...

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مَذْي

Al-madhy

The thick, whitish fluid that emerges during fondling between a man an...

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مَخْصُوصَة

Al-makhṣuwṣaa

It is the predicative proposition whose subject is a real particular, ...

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منهج السلفي

Al-Manhaj as-Salafi

The way of the righteous predecessors in understanding the religion an...

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مَنِيّ

Al-maniy

It is the whitish fluid after the exit of which the male organ becomes...

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مَنْع

Al-manʿ

Competition. In the terminology of controversy, it may be used in the ...

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مَرْفُوع

Al-marfuwʿ

Of the hadith: that which goes back to the Prophet - may the prayers a...

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مبارأة

Al-mbaraa

With the hamza, and omitting it is an error, it consists of a man sayi...

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مبني

Al-mbny

That whose movement and rest (final vowel and quiescence) are not due ...

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مبتدأ

Al-mbtda

It is the noun stripped of verbal governors, having a predicate attrib...

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مد

Al-md

With damma, the ratl and a third of a ratl. The meticulous scholar sai...

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مدنِي

Al-mdniy

That which is attributed to Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. According to the...

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مفعول فيه

Al-mfʿwl fyh

That in which an action mentioned explicitly or implicitly took place....

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مهموسة

Al-mhmwsa

They are the letters that are opposed to the voiced (majhūrah) letters...

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مجربات

Al-mjrbat

These are matters for which the mind requires, in order to ascertain a...

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مجرورات

Al-mjrwrat

It is that which includes the sign of the genitive modifier....

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مكاشفة

Al-mkashfa

It is responding to good with its equivalent or with more....

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مخلب

Al-mkhlb

For a bird, it is like the nail for a human. It is forbidden to consum...

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ملامية

Al-mlamya

They are those who do not let what is within their inner selves appear...

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ملاء الْمُتَشَابه

Al-mlaʾ al-mutashaabh

It was said: it is a body in which matters of differing realities are ...

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ممكنة العامة

Al-mmkna al-ʿama

It is that in which a judgment is made regarding the negation of absol...

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منافسة

Al-mnafsa

Striving to attain a good similar to that which another has reached....

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منفتحة

Al-mnftḥa

In contrast to mutabaqah....

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منخفضة

Al-mnkhfḍa

They are the letters that are opposed to the letters of elevation (al-...

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منكر منه

Al-mnkr mnh

The hadith narrated by a single man, whose text is not corroborated by...

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منقوص

Al-mnqwṣ

It is the noun whose last letter is a ya preceded by a kasra, such as:...

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منقطع من الحديث

Al-mnqṭʿ mn al-ḥdyth

It is that from which the mention of a single narrator has been omitte...

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مقبولات

Al-mqbwlat

These are propositions accepted from someone in whom one trusts, eithe...

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مقطوع

Al-mqṭwʿ

According to the masters of hadith methodology, it is the hadith that ...

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مقطوع من الحديث

Al-mqṭwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

That which is narrated from the Successors (tabi'un) as statements and...

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مراد

Al-mrad

It refers to the one who is drawn away from his own will. The Murad (t...

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مربع

Al-mrbʿ

It is the result of multiplying a number by itself, as mentioned in th...

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مرفوع من الحديث

Al-mrfwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

What a Companion reports regarding a saying of the Messenger of Allah,...

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مرفوعات

Al-mrfwʿat

It is that which encompasses the science of efficacy....

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مركب النَّاقِص

Al-mrkb al-naaqiṣ

It is the incomplete construction upon which it is not correct to paus...

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مركز

Al-mrkz

In the circle, the center of the quadrant of the sine is the orifice t...

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مرتبة الإلهية

Al-mrtba al-ilhya

It is when the reality of existence is taken conditioned upon a thing:...

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مشاكلة

Al-mshakla

In the terminology of stylistic rhetoric (Al-Badi), it is the mention ...

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مشهور من الحديث

Al-mshhwr mn al-ḥdyth

It is that which originates from solitary narrations (ahad), then beco...

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مشهورات

Al-mshhwrat

These are propositions acknowledged by all people, and the reason for ...

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مشروطة الخاصة

Al-mshrwṭa al-khaṣa

It is the general conditional coupled with the restriction of non-perm...

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مشروطة العامة

Al-mshrwṭa al-ʿama

It is that in which it is judged that the predicate necessarily belong...

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مسند من الحديث

Al-msnd mn al-ḥdyth

The opposite of al-mursal, it is that whose chain of transmission is c...

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مستفيض

Al-mstfyḍ

Any report by which knowledge of its informant is attained through inf...

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مستور

Al-mstwr

He is the one whose uprightness nor wickedness has become apparent, so...

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مستعلية

Al-mstʿlya

That is, the letters of elevation (musta'liya), which are those by whi...

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مستحب

Al-mstḥb

A name for what has been legislated in addition to obligations and dut...

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مسْح على الْخُفَّيْنِ

Al-msḥ ʿlā al-khufayni

It is permissible according to us based on the well-known Sunna. If it...

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متن

Al-mtn

Of the earth: that which is hard and elevated, and matun matanah: it b...

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متواترات

Al-mtwatrat

Its plural. And it has already been mentioned in the self-evident matt...

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متى

Al-mtā

It is a state that occurs to a thing due to its existence in time....

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متصل

Al-mtṣl

[That whose] narrators are connected, and each one of them has heard i...

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مُبَالغَة

Al-mubaal-ghaa

In a thing, it is to increase it in quality rather than in quantity, u...

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مُبَارَاة

Al-mubaaraaa

Emulation and competition, meaning that it competes with her in tracti...

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مُهْملَة

Al-muhmlaa

It is the categorical proposition whose subject is a universal concept...

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مُمكن

Al-mumkn

It is that whose necessity of existence and non-existence is negated, ...

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مُمْتَنع

Al-mumtanʿ

It is that whose non-existence in external reality is necessary. If it...

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مُقَابلَة

Al-muqaablaa

Al-Khatib ad-Dimashqi, the author of at-Talkhis, introduced it under a...

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مُوجب

Al-muwjb

The active participle of obligation is the opposite of the one with fr...

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مُؤثر

Al-muʾthr

Since the hamzah therein is in the form of a waw, we have placed the l...

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موقوف من الحديث

Al-mwqwf mn al-ḥdyth

What is narrated from the companions regarding their states and saying...

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موسيقى

Al-mwsyqā

In the collection of Shaykh Baha ad-Din al-Amili, it is a science thro...

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موت الأبيض

Al-mwt al-abyḍ

Hunger, because it illuminates the inner self and whitens the face of ...

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موت الأحمر

Al-mwt al-aḥmr

Opposing the desires of the soul....

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موصول

Al-mwṣwl

That which does not become a complete part except with a connective cl...

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مزاوجة

Al-mzawja

(Pairing one thing with another). And among the masters of ornate styl...

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مزدوج

Al-mzdwj

It is when the speaker, after attending to rhymed prose, combines in t...

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مؤنث

Al-mʾnth

That which contains a sign of the feminine, explicitly or implicitly....

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معَاد

Al-mʿaad

A verbal noun and a noun of place, meaning the return and the orientat...

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معلق من الحديث

Al-mʿlq mn al-ḥdyth

That from which one or more narrators have been omitted from the begin...

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معنوي

Al-mʿnwy

It is that which has no share for the tongue, but is rather a meaning ...

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مضاف إليه

Al-mḍaf ilyh

Every noun related to a thing by means of a preposition, either explic...

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محادثة

Al-mḥadtha

The discourse of Allah addressed to the knowers from the world of sove...

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محاسبة

Al-mḥasba

That which is exclusively held against [someone] by the subordinate or...

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محبة

Al-mḥba

It is the veneration of the station of secrets,...

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محمول

Al-mḥmwl

It is the matter in the mind....

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مطبقة

Al-mṭbqa

That is, the emphatic letters (al-huruf al-mutbaqah), which are those ...

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نَّبْطُ

Al-nabṭu

Death....

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نَّفس النباتية

Al-nafs al-nbatya

A specific form devoid of perception, which preserves the structure of...

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نَّفس الحيوانية

Al-nafs al-ḥywanya

The perfection of a natural animated body, as regards perceiving bodil...

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نَّفْحُ

Al-nafḥu

Striking and throwing....

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نبي

Al-nby

He to whom it has been revealed through an angel, or who has been insp...

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نفس الأمَّارة

Al-nfs al-amaara

It is that which inclines towards the physical nature, commands sensua...

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نفس الإنساني

Al-nfs al-insany

It is the first perfection of a natural, organic body, inasmuch as it ...

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نفس المطمئنة

Al-nfs al-mṭmʾna

It is the one that has been illuminated by the light of the heart unti...

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نفس الناطقة

Al-nfs al-naṭqa

It is the substance immaterial in its essence while being compared to ...

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نفس النباتي

Al-nfs al-nbaty

It is the primary perfection of a natural organic body in terms of its...

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نفس القدسية

Al-nfs al-qdsya

It is the soul that possesses the faculty to evoke everything possible...

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نفس الرحماني

Al-nfs al-rḥmany

It refers to the general existence extended over entities concretely, ...

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نفس الحيواني

Al-nfs al-ḥywany

It is the first perfection of a natural organic body, inasmuch as it p...

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نهاية

Al-nhaya

The term ghayah: that which a quantified thing reaches to a point wher...

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نهى

Al-nhā

The intellect that attains, from perceptible things, the knowledge of ...

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نِّيَّة

Al-niyaa

In language, it is intent. It is said: he intended, he intends, an int...

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نجارية

Al-njarya

The followers of Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Najjar. They agree with the...

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نجد

Al-njd

With a fatha on the nun and a sukun on the jim. The author of Al-Matal...

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نمام

Al-nmam

He who speaks with a group of people and then gossips about them, reve...

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نقمة

Al-nqma

That whose outcome is blameworthy,...

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نقطة

Al-nqṭa

A thing endowed with position that does not accept division, neither r...

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نسك

Al-nsk

Worship, and every right belonging to Allah the Most High, as stated i...

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قَوْل الشَّارِح

Al-qawl al-shaariḥ

It is the conceptual knowledge that leads to a conceptual unknown. It ...

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قبيح

Al-qbyḥ

It is that which is associated with blame in the immediate and punishm...

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قيامة

Al-qiyama

In Persian: "ristakhiz"; and the summary of what is in Ihya 'Ulum ad-D...

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قراض

Al-qraḍ

Derived from al-qard, which means cutting. It was named as such becaus...

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قوامع

Al-qwamʿ

Everything that subdues the human being against the demands of nature,...

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قولنج

Al-qwlnj

Intestinal pain that makes the natural evacuation of waste difficult....

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قيَاس الْمركب

Al-qyaas al-mrkb

Qiyas murakkab (compound syllogism) composed of premises, two of which...

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قياس الاقتراني

Al-qyas al-aqtrany

The opposite of the conditional analogy (istithna'i). It is that in wh...

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قياس الاستثنائي

Al-qyas al-astthnaʾy

That in which the conclusion itself or its contradiction is actually m...

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قطر

Al-qṭr

With a damma, it is the line that bisects the circle. It is also appli...

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ران

Al-ran

It is the veil that stands between the heart and the realm of holiness...

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رأس

Al-ras

The famous and highest part of anything is its head. The capital in a ...

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ربو

Al-rbw

It is shortness of breath....

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ردة

Al-rda

The disbelief of the accountable Muslim, whether through speech or act...

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رداء

Al-rdaʾ

In the terminology of the masters: the manifestation of the attributes...

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ردف

Al-rdf

Any quiescent alif, ya, or waw that immediately precedes the rawi lett...

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رفع

Al-rfʿ

To raise. And according to the specialists in arithmetic, it is the ex...

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رهبة

Al-rhba

Fear accompanied by caution and agitation....

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رخوة

Al-rkhwa

With kasr, derived from al-rakhawah which is softness. And the soft le...

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رمز

Al-rmz

That by which the desired object is indicated, combined with subtlety ...

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رقيقة

Al-rqyqa

It is the spiritual subtlety. It may refer to the subtle intermediate ...

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رسم الناقص

Al-rsm al-naqṣ

That which is done by the exclusive proper attribute alone, or by it a...

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رسم التام

Al-rsm al-tam

That which is composed of the proximate genus and the specific propert...

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روح

Al-rwḥ

With the people, "tarwihan": he prayed the tarawih prayer with them. T...

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روح الأعظم

Al-rwḥ al-aʿẓm

He who is the human spirit, the manifestation of the divine Essence fr...

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روح الإنساني

Al-rwḥ al-insany

It is the knowledgeable and perceptive subtle entity of the human bein...

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ريب

Al-ryb

A noun meaning doubt and not a verbal noun, although it may be made a ...

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ريح

Al-ryḥ

It is moving air, and it has various causes, for it may be a push from...

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رعب

Al-rʿb

Being filled with fear....

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رعشة

Al-rʿsha

A disease that occurs due to the inability of the motor power to move ...

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رضا

Al-rḍa

The joy of the heart in the face of bitter decrees....

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سَّائِل

Al-saaʾil

In lexicology, it is the seeker of the lower degree from the higher on...

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سَّهْو

Al-sahw

The vanishing of the form from the mind such that one is able to obser...

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سالم

Al-sal-m

According to morphologists, it is that whose original letters, which c...

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سبات

Al-sbat

A cerebral tumor resulting from phlegm and yellow bile....

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سبب الخفيف

Al-sbb al-khfyf

It is a mobile letter followed by a quiescent letter, such as: qum, an...

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سبب الثقيل

Al-sbb al-thqyl

They are two vowelled letters such as in: laka and lama....

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سبحة

Al-sbḥa

With the fatha, it designates tasbih, prayer, and dhikr. It is sometim...

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سفاهة

Al-sfaha

Derived from as-safah (lightness), which originally means lightness of...

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سفر الأول

Al-sfr al-awl

It is the lifting of the veils of multiplicity from the face of onenes...

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شَّاة

Al-shaaa

Pertains to sheep, if Allah the Most High wills....

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شاذ من الحديث

Al-shadh mn al-ḥdyth

It is that which has a single chain of transmission attested to by a s...

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شَّدِيدَة

Al-shadiydaa

These are the letters whose sound flow is blocked at their articulatio...

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شاكر

Al-shakr

He who sees his inability to express gratitude. It was also said: he i...

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شَّرْط الْفَاسِد

Al-sharṭ al-faasid

In transactions, every condition not required by the contract and cont...

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شجرة

Al-shjra

The perfect man, governing the structure of the total body: he gathers...

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شخصي لَا يحد

Al-shkhṣy laa yḥd

Realizing this station requires an exposition, so listen: first, the i...

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شلل

Al-shll

Inability of the hand and leg to function due to an affliction affecti...

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شقيقة

Al-shqyqa

Pain affecting one side of the head....

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سهر

Al-shr

Excessive wakefulness resulting from dryness and heat that restrict th...

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شعيرة

Al-shʿyra

An oblong swelling appearing on the edge of the eyelid....

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شحناء

Al-shḥnaʾ

Animosity with which the soul is filled. Al-Fayyumi said: hostility an...

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سّجل

Al-sjl

In endorsement....

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سجية

Al-sjya

That upon which man has been disposed....

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سجع المطرَّف

Al-sjʿ al-mṭraf

It is when the two words agree in the rhyming letter in rhymed prose a...

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سخاء

Al-skhaʾ

Giving what is appropriate to give....

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سكينة

Al-skyna

What the heart experiences as tranquility upon the descent of the unse...

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سنة الشمسية

Al-sna al-shmsya

Three hundred and sixty-five days....

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سقيم

Al-sqym

In hadith terminology, it is the opposite of the authentic (sahih), an...

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تَّالِي

Al-taal-iy

That which comes after a thing, because it stems from the action of fo...

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تأكيد اللفظي

Al-takyd al-lfẓy

It is the repetition of the first term....

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تَّلْوِيح

Al-talwiyḥ

Metonymy involving many intermediaries, derived from lawaha when indic...

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تَّثْلِيث

Al-tathliyth

In astrology, the trine....

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تأييد

Al-tayyd

Strengthening of his cause from within through insight, and from witho...

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تذييل

Al-tdhyyl

The act of following a sentence with another that includes its meaning...

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تفخيم

Al-tfkhym

Veneration and elevation, and its opposite is thinning. In tajwid, in ...

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تفريد

Al-tfryd

Your standing with the Truth with you, and this is if the Truth is the...

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تغليب

Al-tghlyb

It is giving preference to one of two known matters over the other and...

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ثواب

Al-thwab

That by which one merits Allah’s mercy and pardon, and the Messenger’s...

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تجنيس

Al-tjnys

In rhetoric terminology, it is to make two terms homophonous, and its ...

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تجنيس المضارع

Al-tjnys al-mḍarʿ

It is when the two words differ only in a close letter, like al-dhari ...

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تجويد

Al-tjwyd

(To read well and beautify). The science of tajwid is a science with r...

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تخيل

Al-tkhyl

The movement of the soul regarding perceptible things and its detail i...

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تلخيص

Al-tlkhyṣ

Bringing speech from one topic or another to the intended goal, while ...

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تلوين

Al-tlwyn

It is the station of seeking and examination through the path of uprig...

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تمييز

Al-tmyyz

That which removes the established ambiguity of a mentioned entity, su...

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تربيع

Al-trbyʿ

In the dictionary, it means to make a thing square. In the chapter on ...

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تسديس

Al-tsdys

In the aspect of quadrature....

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تشبيب

Al-tshbyb

Highlighting the beauty of the beloved, explaining her condition durin...

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تشريع

Al-tshryʿ

Among the rhetorical and semantic embellishments in the language [corr...

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تشطير

Al-tshṭyr

Among the elegant verbal embellishments, it consists in making each he...

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تتالي

Al-ttal-y

The state of things having a specific arrangement with nothing else of...

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توالي

Al-twal-y

The occurrence of a thing after another in relation to a defined begin...

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تواضع

Al-twaḍʿ

Deeming great the merits of those who are below one in wealth and stat...

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توبة النصوح

Al-twba al-nṣwḥ

It is a strict commitment never to return to the like of it. Ibn Abbas...

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توقي

Al-twqy

To avoid a thing....

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توشيع

Al-twshyʿ

It is bringing at the end of speech a dual term explained by two nouns...

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تعليق

Al-tʿlyq

To make a thing suspended upon another. And from this is the suspensio...

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تصديق

Al-tṣdyq

It is to attribute by your choice truthfulness to the one who informs....

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وجودي

Al-wjwdy

On two meanings: the first is the existent, and the second is that of ...

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وجودية اللادائمة

Al-wjwdya al-ladaʾma

It is the general absolute with the restriction of non-permanence, acc...

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وجودية اللاضرورية

Al-wjwdya al-laḍrwrya

It is the general absolute restricted by non-necessity, according to t...

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وقتية

Al-wqtya

It is the proposition in which one judges the necessity of the predica...

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ورقاء

Al-wrqaʾ

The universal soul, which is the Preserved Tablet, the tablet of decre...

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وتد المفروق

Al-wtd al-mfrwq

It consists of two mobile letters with a quiescent letter between them...

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وتد المجموع

Al-wtd al-mjmwʿ

It is the two vowelled letters followed by a quiescent letter, such as...

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وضوء

Al-wudu

From al-wudaa'a, meaning beauty. In the Law: washing and wiping specif...

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وُقُوف القلبي

Al-wuquwf al-qlby

Among the Sufis, an expression denoting the awakening and presence of ...

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وحدة

Al-wḥda

And likewise multiplicity are self-evident in the same way as what the...

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ياقوتة الحمراء

Al-yaqwta al-ḥmraʾ

It is the universal soul, due to the mixture of its luminous nature wi...

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ياس

Al-yas

It is used to express constriction (al-qabd), because Idris, due to hi...

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يرقان

Al-yrqan

It is a pronounced change in body color to yellow or black, due to the...

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يسر

Al-ysr

The thing: became soft and compliant. The pregnant woman: her delivery...

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يتم

Al-ytm

With damma and fatha, and sukun on the second letter. Damma on the fir...

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زَّائِد

Al-zaaʾid

From zada, yazid, ziyadah. In the terminology of arithmetic specialist...

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زَّمَخْشَرِيُّ

Al-zamakhshariyu

The hands of Allah are outstretched, its plural is busut, similar to r...

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زبر

Al-zbr

With damma, the plural of zabur which is the book restricted to ruling...

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زمرد

Al-zmrd

The Universal Soul, when potentiality multiplied both from the aspect ...

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زيتون

Al-zytwn

It is the soul disposed to ignite with the light of holiness due to th...

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عَدَم

Al-ʿadam

It is the opposite of existence and has two considerations: absolute e...

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عبرة

Al-ʿbra

The fixing of legal alms for each district by averaging the yields of ...

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علَّة الفاعلية

Al-ʿlaa al-faʿlya

or for the sake of obtaining it, thus it is...

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علَّة الغائية

Al-ʿlaa al-ghaʾya

And the second is either that it is a part of it and the existence of ...

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علَّة المادية

Al-ʿlaa al-madya

or in actuality, it is then:...

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علم الطبيعي

Al-ʿlm al-ṭbyʿy

It is the science that studies the natural body from the perspective o...

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عمرية

Al-ʿmrya

Similar to the Wasilites, except that they declared both factions to b...

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عقل الهيولاني

Al-ʿql al-hywlany

It is the pure readiness to perceive intelligibles, and it is a pure f...

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عقل بالملكة

Al-ʿql bal-mlka

It is the knowledge of necessities, and the soul's readiness thereby t...

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عرفية الخاصة

Al-ʿrfya al-khaṣa

It is the al-`urfiyyah al-`ammah with the restriction of non-perpetuit...

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عزيز

Al-ʿzyz

That which is narrated uniquely by two or three people among the peopl...

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ضلالة

Al-ḍlal-a

It is the loss of what leads to the sought goal; it was said: it is a ...

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ضلع

Al-ḍlʿ

It is most often applied to the lines surrounding the square....

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ضرورية المطلقة

Al-ḍrwrya al-mṭlqa

It is that in which one judges the necessity of the predicate's affirm...

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ضريبة

Al-ḍryba

So named in consideration of the striking of the dirham....

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ضياء

Al-ḍyaʾ

The vision of others by the eye of reality, for reality in itself is l...

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ضعيف

Al-ḍʿyf

That whose establishment is debated, like qurtas with damma qaf, again...

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ضعيف من الحديث

Al-ḍʿyf mn al-ḥdyth

That which is of a lower rank than sound (hasan). Its weakness is some...

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حَالَات

Al-ḥaal-aat

These are the non-entrenched psychological dispositions, such as writi...

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حَدِيث السقيم

Al-ḥadiyth al-sqym

The divisions of the hadith are numerous in the foundations of hadith ...

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حد الناقص

Al-ḥd al-naqṣ

That which is formed by the proximate difference alone, or by it toget...

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حد التام

Al-ḥd al-tam

That which is composed of the proximate genus and difference, like def...

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حدسيات

Al-ḥdsyat

These are matters in which the mind does not need an intermediary to d...

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حديث الصحيح

Al-ḥdyth al-ṣḥyḥ

That whose text is free from stylistic weakness, and its meaning from ...

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حمد الحالي

Al-ḥmd al-ḥal-y

It is that which pertains to the spirit and the heart, such as being c...

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حملة

Al-ḥmla

The transition of the human soul to its possible perfection according ...

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حرد

Al-ḥrd

Anger accompanied by the intention to harm the one who is its object....

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حرية

Al-ḥrya

In the terminology of the people of truth: freeing oneself from the se...

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حس المشترك

Al-ḥs al-mshtrk

It is the faculty in which the forms of particular sensible perception...

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حسن من الحديث

Al-ḥsn mn al-ḥdyth

That its narrator is famous for truthfulness and trustworthiness, thou...

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حسرة

Al-ḥsra

It is reaching the extreme in intense sorrow, such that the heart rema...

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حيرة

Al-ḥyra

That which arises from a contradiction between evidences....

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حضور

Al-ḥḍwr

Absence from creation due to the dominance of the remembrance of Allah...

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صدر

Al-ṣdr

It is the first part of the first hemistich in a poetic verse....

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صفي

Al-ṣfy

It is a precious thing that the Prophet, may Allah's prayers and peace...

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صِّفَات النفسية

Al-ṣifaat al-nfsya

There is a disagreement in their definition. Those who believe in stat...

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صرع

Al-ṣrʿ

An incomplete cerebral blockage causing nervous spasms due to the cont...

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صُّورَة

Al-ṣuwraa

That by which a thing is distinguished. It is said that the form of a ...

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صوت

Al-ṣwt

A quality existing in the air which carries it to the ear canal....

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صحيح من الحديث

Al-ṣḥyḥ mn al-ḥdyth

What preceded in the definition of the authentic hadith....

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طب الروحاني

Al-ṭb al-rwḥany

It is the science of the perfections of hearts, their flaws, their dis...

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طبيب الروحاني

Al-ṭbyb al-rwḥany

He is the shaykh well-versed in that medicine, capable of guiding and ...

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طبع

Al-ṭbʿ

What befalls a human being without their will. It is also said: at-tab...

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طِيَرَة

Al-ṭiyaraa

Like al-khyara: a verbal noun derived from tayr, and no other verbal n...

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طرف

Al-ṭrf

With two fathas — language: a part of a thing, its side and end; it is...

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ظفرة

Al-ẓfra

An outgrowth of the conjunctiva or the membrane covering the eye, usua...

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اضطراب

Aladtrab

In matters, hesitation....

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بيت المقدس

Albyt almqds

The heart pure from attachment to anyone other than Allah....

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جان

Aljan

Al Jinn. And in the Noble Quran: (And on that Day neither man nor jinn...

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أم الكتاب

Am al-ktab

The glorious Quran, Surah Muhammad - may the prayers and peace of Alla...

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أم الولد

Am al-wld

According to the jurists, she is the female slave whom her master has ...

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أمانة

Amana

The opposite of treachery; it is the verbal noun: man was entrusted an...

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أمر بالمعروف

Amr bil-ma'ruf

Guidance to the saving orientations, and forbidding the blameworthy: r...

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نار

An-nar

It is a subtle, flammable substance....

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عَارِض

Arid

The cloud crossing the sky’s horizon....

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أرش

Arsh

It is a name of wealth due for what is below life....

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صدقة

As-sadaqa

It is the gift by which one seeks reward from Allah, the Most High....

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صلاة

As-salat

In language: supplication. In the Law: it denotes specific pillars and...

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صلاة على النبي

As-Salat ala an-Nabi

The saying: "O Allah, exalt Muhammad and the family of Muhammad"....

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سنة

As-sunna

In language: custom. In the Law: a term shared between what issued fro...

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شفاعة

Ash-shafa'a

It is the request to overlook sins made to the one against whom the of...

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شهادتان

Ash-Shahadatan

The two testimonies: bearing witness that there is no god but Allah an...

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شرك

Ash-shirk

Between them: making them partners....

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أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله

Ashhadu an La Ilaha Illa Allah

The first part of the shahada, meaning: I acknowledge and testify that...

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أشهد أن محمداً رسول الله

Ashhadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah

The second part of the shahada, meaning: I acknowledge and testify tha...

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أسكن

Askn

Such a one: he inhabited. The mobile: stopped its movement. A such a o...

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اسْم الْفَاعِل

Asm al-faaʿil

A noun derived from the masdar, designated for the one by whom the mea...

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اسْم الْإِشَارَة

Asm al-iishaaraa

A noun established to designate that which is pointed to by a sensory ...

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اسْم الْمَفْعُول

Asm al-mafʿuwl

That is, the passive participle due to the omission of the preposition...

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اسْم التَّفْضِيل

Asm al-tafḍiyl

That is, a noun indicating the superiority of one thing over another. ...

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أسماء الأفعال

Asmaʾ al-afʿal-

That which has the meaning of the imperative or the past tense, such a...

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أسماء العدد

Asmaʾ al-ʿdd

That which has been established for the quantity of the units of thing...

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تفسير

At-tafsir

In origin: disclosure and manifestation. In the Law: clarifying the me...

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طهارة

At-tahara

In language: cleanliness. In the Law: washing specific limbs in a spec...

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طلاق

At-talaq

In language: removal of the bond and release. In the Law: removal of t...

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تقوى

At-taqwa

In language: the state of one who shields himself, that is, who takes ...

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توحيد

At-tawhid

In language: the judgment that a thing is one, and the knowledge that ...

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أثر

Athar

It has three meanings: the first, consequence, the outcome of the thin...

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زكاة

Az-zakat

In language: increase. In the Law: it denotes the obligation of a port...

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أَزْلُ

Azl

Hardness and straitness; one says: the man knew azl, that is, fell int...

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بقاء

Baqa

Lasting; and what it is in the terminology of the way’s masters in wil...

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بصر

Basar

The power lodged in the two hollow nerves that meet then part, reachin...

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بسيط

Basit

Three kinds: the real simple, having no part at all: the Creator, tran...

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بيت

Bayt

In the dwelling, if Allah wills....

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بدل الاشتمال

Bdl al-ashtmal-

If it is not so — neither its equivalent nor its part — it is what is ...

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بدل الْبَعْض

Bdl al-baʿḍ

When its signified is a part of the signified of the replaced term (al...

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بدل الْغَلَط

Bdl al-ghalaṭ

That is, the apposition whose cause is the speaker's error over the su...

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بدل الْكل

Bdl al-kl

When its referent denotes the same entity as the first, as in: "Zayd y...

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برهَان التطبيق

Brhaan al-tṭbyq

Among the most famous proofs refuting infinite regress. It consists in...

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بُغَاة

Bughat

Plural of baghi, from al-baghy which is injustice; this plural of the ...

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بكاء

Buka

Abundant, coming of grief sometimes and joy sometimes; the difference ...

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دعْوَة

Da'wa

With fatha: the meal’s invitation; kasra, the da’wa of kinship; damma,...

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دَار السَّلَام

Daar al-salaam

Paradise. The best of the later scholars, Shaykh Abd al-Hakim, may All...

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دَائِرَة الِارْتفَاع

Daaʾiraa al-iartfaaʿ

It is a great circle that bisects the world, intersects the circle of ...

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ضَمَان الدَّرك

Daman ad-darak

Returning the price to the buyer when the sold thing falls due, saying...

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ذكاء

Dhaka

The soul’s strength, readied for opinions’ acquiring, by the tongue....

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ضدان

Diddan

Two existent attributes succeeding one locus, their joining impossible...

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دِيَة

Diya

Verbal noun of wada when the killer handed the slain’s guardian the we...

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فَضِيلَة

Fadila

The non-transitive excellence, that is, the excellence whose realizati...

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فهم

Fahm

Conceiving the sense of the addressee’s wording....

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فخر

Fakhr

Rising over people by enumerating virtues....

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فالضابطة

Fal-ḍabṭa

In the extraction of the unknown using the rule of three in matters re...

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فرض

Fard

What is established by certain proof without doubt: its denier deemed ...

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فساد

Fasad

The departure of form from matter after being established therein. Amo...

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فجور

Fujur

It is a state of the soul whereby acts contrary to Law and manliness a...

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صفاء الذِّهْن

Ṣfaʾ al-dhihn

The readiness of the rational soul to deduce what is sought without fa...

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غبن الفاحش

Ghabn al-fahsh

What falls not under the appraisers’ estimation. Said: what people wou...

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غَفْلة

Ghafla

That is, they were heedless of guarding their station and of facing th...

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غنيمة

Ghanima

Name of what is taken of the unbelievers’ wealths by the raiders’ forc...

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غاية

Ghaya

That for whose sake the thing exists....

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غبطة

Ghibta

It is wishing the favor’s gain for you, as it was gained for another, ...

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غيرة

Ghira

Aversion to another’s share in one’s right....

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غير المنصرف

Ghyr al-mnṣrf

On the term al-muntsarif if Allah the Most High wills....

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حديث القدسي

Hadith qudsi

As to the meaning, it is from Allah; as to the...

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هَدي

Hady

What is brought of the flocks to the sanctuary for slaughter....

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حل

Hall

With fatha: famous tongue. Hall touching poetic plagiarisms: scatterin...

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حسب

Hasab

What man counts of his own glory and his fathers’....

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هوى

Hawa

The soul’s leaning toward what allures it of pleasures, without the La...

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حَوْض

Hawd

Two basins, small and great. The small basin: what is below ten cubits...

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حياء

Haya'

The soul’s contraction before a thing and leaving it warily of the bla...

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هزل

Hazl

It is that no sense is intended by the wording, literal nor figurative...

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حفظ

Hifz

The retention of perceived forms....

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حدوث

Huduth

The thing’s existence after its inexistence....

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حمى

Humma

The thing for so-and-so, in protection: barring it and warding it. Sai...

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حمق

Humq

Reason’s corruption, or setting the thing besides its place knowing it...

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عفة

'Iffa

A state of the desiring strength, middle between libertinage, this str...

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إعادة

I'ada

In the performance....

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ابن

Ibn

A male being generated of another individual’s seed of its kind....

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إدغام

Idgham

Lexically: entering a thing into a thing; said: I idgham’d the clothes...

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إذعان

Idhan

The heart’s resolve. Al-’azm: settling the will without hesitation....

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افتراق

Iftiraq

Two substances being in two loci such that distinction between them is...

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إيغال

Ighal

It is closing the verse with what yields a point the meaning completes...

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إيجاز

Ijaz

Expressing the meant with less than the customary wording....

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التفات

Iltifat

It is the swerve from the third person to address or speech, or the re...

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إمام

Imam

He who holds the general leadership in religion and world alike....

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إِمَامَة

Imama

The Prophet’s inheritance: one chooses for it who most resembles him i...

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إنكار

Inkar

The contrary of avowal. The hamza is sometimes used for reproving nega...

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إِقَالَة

Iqala

Verbal noun of aqala yaqilou, hollow verb meaning cutting, lifting. Wh...

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إقامة

Iqama

Verbal noun of aqama in the place, the ha replacing the verb’s ’ayn, t...

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اشتقاق

Ishtiqaq

Extracting a wording from another, on condition of their suiting in me...

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استعانة

Isti'ana

In badi’: the author citing another’s verse, to aid him completing his...

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استعارة

Isti'ara

Claiming the literal sense in the thing, for exaggerating likeness, wi...

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استعداد

Istidad

It is the thing’s being in near or far potency toward the act....

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استِنْجاء

Istinja

From najw; and in the whole of the tongue, najw is what issues from th...

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إثبات

Ithbat

It is judging the establishment of another thing....

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اعتقاد

Itiqad

Verbal noun of a’taqada you’taqidou; the root is ’aqada. Ibn Faris sai...

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اعتراض

Itirad

It is coming amid speech, or between two connected speeches, with a me...

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إِيصَاء

Iysa

(Executing a bequest.) He bequeathing Zayd, Zayd accepting the bequest...

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جَائِفَة

Ja'ifa

Per al-Idah, it embraces the cavity of chest, back, belly and neck. Th...

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جبروت

Jabarut

With Abou Talib al-Makki: the world of might, meaning the divine names...

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جهر

Jahr

The contrary of secrecy. There is divergence: al-Karkhi said jahr’s mi...

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جَلَال

Jalal

Greatness....

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جمال

Jamal

And the comely is the aptness of organs. Jaml is, among attributes, wh...

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جرح

Jarh

So-and-so, in wound: having split him; he, she wounded; plural jarha. ...

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جرس

Jars

The summarizing of divine address arriving upon the heart with a form ...

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جناية

Jinaya

Every forbidden act involving harm to the person or to other than her....

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جمع الْكَثْرَة

Jmʿ al-kathraa

A plural form applied to anything above ten up to infinity. The sound ...

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جمع الْقلَّة

Jmʿ al-qlaa

A plural applied to any number from three to ten, and everything in be...

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كبيرة

Kabira

It is what is purely unlawful, with purely prescribed punishment by de...

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كلالة

Kalala

Weariness and strength’s loss: the lexical root; then borrowed for kin...

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كَلُّ

Kall

The orphan and he with dependants; hence the hadith: « whoever leaves ...

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كرم

Karam

It is giving with ease....

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كشف

Kashf

Lexically: lifting the veil. As a term: the survey of what is behind t...

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كسر

Kasr

It is parting the solid body by a strong push, without a body’s penetr...

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كيد

Kayd

A will harming another covertly; of character: the evil ruse; and of A...

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كذب الْخَبَر

Kdhb al-khabar

The non-correspondence of the report to reality, meaning reporting in ...

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خرص

Kharss

With kha fatha and ra sukun: it is the estimate and appraisal; estimat...

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خشية

Khashya

The heart’s paining by expecting a dreaded thing in the future, someti...

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خاتم

Khatam

With fatha of the ta, with two dots, or kasra: that with which one sea...

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خوارج

Khawarij

Those who take the tithe without the sultan’s leave....

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خطابة

Khitaba

It is a compound syllogism of accepted or conjectural premises held by...

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خدر

Khudr

A side of the house where a curtain is left, where the free maiden dwe...

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خطّ الاسْتوَاء

Khṭ al-astwaaʾ

In the equator....

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كفر

Kufr

Covering what warrants showing. Koufran: veiling the Donor’s favor by ...

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كرة

Kura

It is a body enclosed by one surface, at its center a point, all lines...

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لا إله إلا الله

La Ilaha Illa Allah

The shahada: the saying "there is no god but Allah"; it is the word of...

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لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

La Ilaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah

The two complete testimonies: affirming Allah's oneness and negating a...

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لفظ

Lafz

What man utters, or what stands in its stead, mute or used....

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لَيْلَة الْقدر

Laylat al-Qadr

The best of the year’s nights and most noble: Allah especially granted...

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لُزُوم مَا لَا يلْزم

Luzuwm maa laa ylzm

Among rhetorical and stylistic embellishments, it consists of introduc...

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علم الْمعَانِي

ʿlm al-mʿaaniy

In the science of meanings....

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علمه تَعَالَى شَامِل

ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil

That is, concerning possible things and impossible things. Therefore, ...

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ماء

Ma'

Cool and moist. Its plural almiyah attests its hamza a ha inverted. Th...

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محال

Mahal

What whose existence outward is impossible, as motion and rest joining...

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مجموع

Majmu

What indicates bounded individuals by single letters. Outside this res...

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مخيلات

Makhayat

Propositions imagined, by which the soul is affected of contraction or...

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مكر

Makr

From the Truth’s, transcendent, side: favors’ following despite disobe...

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مكروه

Makruh

What whose leaving is preferred: near the unlawful, its disapproval pr...

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مناقضة

Manaqada

Lexically: invalidating one of the two words by the other. As a term: ...

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مندوب

Mandub

He over whom one cries in mourning with « ya » or « wa ». Among the fa...

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مانع

Mani'

What renders the ruling nonexistent despite its cause’s presence; its ...

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مَنْسُوخ

Mansukh

Of an-naskh, tongue of removal and transfer. In the Law: a legal argum...

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منطوق

Mantuq

In Ghayat al-Woussoul: what the wording indicates in the utterance’s l...

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مقام

Maqam

In the people of truth’s terminology: what one reaches by a kind of wo...

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مقيد

Maqid

What is restricted by some of its descriptions....

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مشهور

Mashhur

The machhour; the machhour hadith is what was related among ahad origi...

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مولى

Mawla

He who cannot approach his wife but at the price of something obliging...

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مولى الموالاة

Mawla al-muwalat

In clienthood (wala)....

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مَوْقُوف

Mawquf

Among the masters of arabism: the word one halts upon, that is, which ...

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مفهوم المخالفة

Mfhwm al-mkhal-fa

What is understood from speech by way of implication, and it has been ...

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ملة

Milla

It is the revealed law, in that it inclines, or in that a community ga...

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مثل

Mithl

And mithal Persian: mand; the difference: mithl shares all description...

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مثقال

Mithqal

The dinar: ten carats, so in al-’Alamkiri’s Fatwas; the carat: five ba...

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مُؤَلَّفَة

Mu'allafa

Those whose will is weak in islam, or nobles hoped islam of their peop...

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مبتدع

Mubtadi

Passive name: what is not preceded by matter nor duration. Active name...

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مذكر

Mudhakkar

The feminine’s contrary: what is free of the three marks: ta, alif, ya...

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مفصل

Mufassal

In fiqh: the seventh seventh of the Quran, so named for its many secti...

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محاضرة

Muhadara

The heart’s presence with the Truth in the flowing of His names, trans...

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محاقلة

Muhaqala

It is selling wheat with its ears, for measured wheat, by estimation....

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مجتهد

Mujtahid

He who possesses the knowledge of the Book and the faces of its meanin...

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مخالفة

Mukhalafa

The word being contrary to the law deduced from examining the Arabs’ t...

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ملازمة

Mulazama

Lexically: a thing’s impossibility of detaching from another; al-lazou...

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مؤمن

Mumin

He who attests Allah, His messenger and what he brought....

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مُرَاعَاة النظير

Muraaʿaaa al-nẓyr

It is the gathering of a matter and that which corresponds to it, not ...

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مركب

Murakkab

What is intended by part of its wording the indication of part of its ...

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مراقبة

Muraqaba

The continuance of the servant’s knowledge of the Lord’s inspection of...

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مريد

Murid

It is he detached from will. Sheikh Mouhyi ad-Din al-’Arabi, his secre...

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مرسل

Mursal

In hadith: what a Follower or the Follower’s Follower relates to the P...

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مروءة

Murua

It is a strength of the soul, principle of the fine acts’ issuing, dra...

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مسلمات

Muslimat

Propositions conceded by the opponent, speech built thereon to refute;...

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مسند

Musnad

Name of asanda, verb or report, single word or sentence. The mousnad a...

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معتل

Mutal

What one of whose original letters is a weak letter, waw, ya or alef: ...

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متواطئ

Mutawati

It is the universal whose sense and truth obtain on its mental and out...

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مثلث

Muthallath

He whose two-thirds flowed by nature, of grape-water, raisin or date w...

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مزابنة

Muzabana

It is selling fresh dates on the palm for measured dry dates, by estim...

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نعت

Na't

A complement indicating a sense in its head by the wording; this restr...

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نبات

Nabat

The body’s first perfection, natural and mechanical, as to what genera...

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نفي

Nafy

What is not categorised by « la »: it is informing of the act’s leavin...

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نهي

Nahy

The order’s contrary: the speaker’s word to his inferior: do it not....

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نَّعْلُ

Nal

Feminine: what is worn for walking, today called tasouma; described si...

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ناقص

Naqis

What whose lam is weak, as da’a and rama....

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نَّاسِخ

Nasikh

In the mansoukh....

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نوع

Naw'

A name indicating many things differing by the individuals....

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نوم

Nawm

A natural state, the powers halting with it, by the vapors’ rising to ...

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نظر

Nazar

(Seeing - regarding reflectively). And reading, transiting by fi: said...

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نظري

Nazari

What whose obtaining depends on regarding and acquiring, as conceiving...

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نعمة

Ni'ma

It is that for which benevolence and profit are intended, without aim ...

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نسبة

Nisba

The establishing of connection between two things....

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نمو

Numuw

It is the body’s volume’s growing, by what joins and insinuates in all...

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قدم

Qadam

What is established for the servant in the True’s knowledge, of bliss ...

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قذف

Qadhf

Lexically: casting absolutely. In the Law: casting the fornication-acc...

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قافية

Qafiya

It is the verse’s last letter; said: its last word....

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قمر

Qamar

A night star, dim, blueish tending to black, dark, non-luminous, dense...

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قناعة

Qana'a

Lexically: contentment with the share; in the people of truth’s termin...

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قصر

Qasr

Lexically: retention; one says: I qasr’d the milch beast for my horse,...

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قول

Qawl

It is the composed wording in the voiced proposition, or the composed ...

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قوم

Qawm

Originally, verbal noun of qama yaqoumou: qualified by it, an embracin...

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قَوس الِارْتفَاع

Qaws al-iartfaaʿ

It is the line circumscribing the quadrant of the astrolabe, divided o...

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قصاص

Qisas

It is doing to the actor what he did....

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قدرة الميسرة

Qudrat al-maysara

What makes ease binding upon performance; it exceeds the possible capa...

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قرآن

Quran

What was sent down to the Messenger, written in the codices, transmitt...

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قطب

Qutb

Sometimes called ghawth, for the distressed’s recourse to him: the Uni...

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قوة

Quwwa

It is the animal’s aptitude for arduous acts. The vegetative soul’s po...

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قطب الكرة

Qṭb al-kra

In the cylinder....

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حق الْيَقِين

Ḥq al-yaqiyn

According to the Sufis, it is the annihilation of the servant in Allah...

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رعونة

Ra'una

Halting at the soul’s desires and what its temperament demands....

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رد

Radd

Lexically: sending back. As a term: returning what remains after the f...

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رفث

Rafth

With ra and fa fatha: lexically: intercourse and what occurs between m...

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رَّحْمَة

Rahma

It is an affective state ordinarily befalling him of heart tenderness,...

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رجاء

Raja'

Lexically: hope. As a term: the heart’s attachment to gaining a belove...

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رقم

Raqm

With ’ayn sukun: writing; with its fatha: what the sages of India esta...

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رأي

Ray

The soul’s conviction of one of the two contraries, by preponderant co...

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رد الْعَجز على الصَّدْر

Rd al-ʿajz ʿlā al-ṣadr

Among rhetorical stylistic embellishments, in prose it consists of pla...

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رياضة

Riyada

It is the schooling of the psychic morals; their schooling is their sc...

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رجوع

Rujua

One motion in one azimuth, but a distance equal to the first motion it...

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رق

Ruq

Lexically: weakness; hence the heart’s tenderness. In fiqh, among the ...

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عرض الْبَلَد

ʿrḍ al-balad

An arc of the meridian circle between the zenith and the equator circl...

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صحابي

Sahabi

By usage: he who saw the Prophet and whose company with him lasted, ev...

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سجع

Saj'a

It is the two prose phrase-ends’ concord on one final letter....

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سكتة

Sakta

With damma, verbal noun of sakata al-ghadab: he fell silent in anger....

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سماحة

Samaha

It is giving what is not due, by favor....

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سمع الله لمن حمده

Sami Allahu liman Hamidah

An invocation said upon rising from bowing, meaning: Allah hears the o...

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سند

Sanad

That upon which the prohibition is founded, that which validates it, w...

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سرقة

Sariqa

It is, in the tongue, taking the thing from another covertly. In the L...

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شفقة

Shafqa

It is directing the resolve toward removing the disliked from people....

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شهادة

Shahada

In the Law: informing of eye-witness in the words of testimony in the ...

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شهامة

Shahama

It is the eagerness for accomplishing grand matters drawing the fine f...

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شهوة

Shahwa

A movement of the soul seeking the fitting....

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شجاعة

Shaja'a

A state of the anger-strength between rashness and cowardice, by which...

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شكور

Shakur

He who sees his incapacity to thank. Said: he who spends largeness in ...

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شريعة

Sharia

It is clothing oneself with servitude’s engagement. Said: the shari’a ...

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شركة

Sharika

It is the two shares’ mingling and beyond, such that they distinguish ...

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شيء

Shay'

In the tongue: what can be known and reported of, by Sibawayh’s accoun...

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شركة الأبدان

Shrka alabdan

Originally: partnership of bodies. The letter ba was deleted, then the...

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شُّبْهَة فِي الْمحل

Shubha fi al-mahall

A doubt arising from an argument excluding in itself the prohibition i...

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شفعة

Shuf'a

It is the compulsory taking of the share, against indemnity, for him h...

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شُّحُّ

Shuhh

Avarice’s extreme: the farthest of withholding among avarice. Said: av...

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شكر

Shukr

It is a gratitude answering the favor, whether by tongue, hand or hear...

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صناعة

Sina'a

A psychic aptitude whence voluntary acts issue without reflection. Sai...

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سن

Sinn

With sin kasra and noun strengthening: flow, a tooth, and age; plural ...

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صلى

Sla

The horse in the race: it arrived as a musalli. It is the second in th...

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سُّورَة

Sourate

With fatha: a rampart. With damma: a part of the noble Quran, but not ...

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سر السِّرّ

Sr al-sir

That by which Allah is uniquely distinguished from the servant, such a...

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سؤال

Su'al

Asking of the lower from the higher....

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سكوت

Sukut

It is leaving speech while holding the capacity....

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حسن التَّعْلِيل

Ḥsn al-taʿliyl

In Arabic stylistics, it is when an attribute is ascribed a fitting ca...

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تَّأْلِيف

Ta'lif

It is joining the proportionate things, from alifa, intimacy; real in ...

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تعقيب

Ta'qib

Doing the thing after the thing, returning to its tongue-sense....

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تابع

Tabi

Every second undergoing its antecedent’s declension from one angle. Th...

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طبيعة

Tabia

It is the force running through bodies, whereby the body reaches its n...

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تفكر

Tafakkur

The heart’s moving through the senses of things, to grasp the sought....

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تفهيم

Tafhim

Conveying the sense to the hearer’s understanding by the wording....

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تفريع

Tafri'a

Setting a thing after a thing, for the later’s needing the prior....

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تفويض

Tafwid

Yielding, leaving dispute; hence the mafouda: she entrusted her intima...

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تهور

Tahawwur

A state of the nervous strength, by which one advances toward what adv...

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تحكيم

Tahkim

(Making one one’s judge.) Al-hakam, with fatha of the first two, is a ...

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تَّحْلِيل

Tahlil

(Of rendering one distinct.) Among the people of calculation: the oper...

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تجلِّي

Tajalli

What unveils to the hearts of the lights of the unseens; the unseens p...

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تجريد

Tajrid

Removing the all-other and the world from secret and heart: for no vei...

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تكبر

Takabbur

So-and-so: swelling, refusing accepting the truth obstinately; in the ...

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تَخْصِيص الْإِثْبَات وَتَخْصِيص الثُّبُوت

Takhṣiyṣ al-iithbaat watakhṣiyṣ al-thubuwt

The first: it is specification by mention, as in the statement Zayd is...

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تناقض

Tanaqud

It is two propositions’ differing by affirmation and negation, their e...

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تناسخ

Tanasukh

It is the soul’s attaching to a body after parting another body, no ti...

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تنقيح

Tanqih

Shortening the wording while the meaning stays clear....

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تنزيل

Tanzil

The Quran’s appearing by need, through Jibril, upon the Prophet’s hear...

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تعريض

Tarid

Among the scholars of sarf: making the object presented to the essence...

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ترجيع

Tarji'a

Making the thing returning. Tarji’ in adhan: each of the two attestati...

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ترخيم

Tarkhim

Deleting the name’s end for lightening....

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تسلسل

Tasalsul

It is infinite matters’ ordering; its kinds four: being not hidden; ei...

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تشبيه

Tashbih

Lexically: indicating one thing’s sharing with another in a meaning: t...

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ثناء

Thana

Recalling good by tongue; but in hamd’s definition the tongue cut, det...

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ثنايا

Thanaya

Plural of thaniyya: (four teeth, two below two above). The two incisor...

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ثني

Thani

Son of five years of camels, son of two years of cows, son of one year...

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ثلاثي

Thulathi

What whose past is of three original letters....

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طب

Tibb

A science whereby health’s keeping and illness’s curing known: the old...

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تجاهل الْعَارِف

Tjahl al-ʿaarif

As-Sakkaki named it: treating the known element as if it were other fo...

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تشابه الْأَطْرَاف

Tshabh al-aaṭraaf

Among the semantic embellishments mentioned in the science of rhetoric...

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تسنن

Tsnn

Against his enemy: he went straight ahead. And: he adopted the sunna a...

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تعلقات علم الْوَاجِب تَعَالَى

Tʿlqat ʿlm al-waajib taʿaal-aā

They are of two kinds: one is eternal, and the other is contingent. Th...

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عبودية

Ubudiyya

Keeping covenants, guarding bounds, content with the present, patient ...

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أُضْحِية

Udhiya

Name of what is immolated, that is, slaughtered; plural adahi....

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أسطوانة

Ustuwana

A shape enclosed by two parallel circles at its ends, its two bases, j...

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أصُول الْفِقْه

Usul al-fiqh

A relational compound, transferred relational composition, established...

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حُرُوف الْجَرّ

Ḥuruwf al-jar

That which was established to convey the meaning of the verb or its eq...

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حُرُوف الزِّيَادَة

Ḥuruwf al-ziyaadaa

They are gathered in sa-altumuniha. And the meaning is not that these ...

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وَالرَّابِع

Waal-raabiʿ

The breadth divided into two directions, which is the surface. It is s...

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وَاعْلَم

Waaʿlam

Know that the first of the four proportional numbers used in transacti...

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وباء

Waba

With lengthening: general illness; land wabi’a, woubiyya, mawbou’a: it...

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وهميات

Wahmiyat

False propositions judged by prejudice in non-sensed matters, as judgi...

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وحي

Wahy

Wahi’s origin is swift indication; for the swiftness it holds, a matte...

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وجد

Wajd

What the heart encounters and befalls it without effort nor affectatio...

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وكالة

Wakala

With fatha or kasra of the waw: name of the mandate, which is keeping ...

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والمنسوخ

Wal-mnswkh

In the report of the Prophet (peace upon him) as well, the naskh is di...

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والضابطة

Wal-ḍabṭa

In its extraction and inquiry, the unknown is either one of the two ex...

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وارد

Warid

All arriving at the heart of unseen senses, without the servant’s inte...

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وأرسطو

Warsṭw

He said in Anologia: I chose spiritual retreat and ascetic exercise, I...

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يمين الصبر

Ymyn alsbr

According to the Hanafis, Shafiis, and Zaidis: it is the oath that a p...

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عين الْيَقِين

ʿyn al-yaqiyn

That which direct observation and unveiling grant....

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زمان

Zaman

It is the atlantic sphere’s motion’s measure among sages; among theolo...

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زوج الْفَرد

Zwj al-fard

Understand and memorize....

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زوج الزَّوْج

Zwj al-zawj

And if he does not accept that, but balances more than once, he is cal...

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زوج الزَّوْج والفرد

Zwj al-zawj wal-frd

Like the number twelve, and if its half can be taken only once like th...

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