Aqida Glossary

Islam > Glossary > Aqida

Islamic creed and theology. Discover 1,303 definitions of Aqida terms from classical sources.

glossary Aqida

Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM

🕋

1,303 terms

Aqida terms - letter A

974 terms

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

Lexically: verbal noun of ’ajiza; said: impotent in the matter, impote...

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

The plural of ’asib, as talaba and toullab, fajira and foujjara, zalim...

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

Seeking mercy. When it (the verb) is ascribed to Him, or to what perta...

With "the sheep" and the like: slaughtering it in the duha (forenoon) ...

أهل الأهواء

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

أهل الديوان

They are the soldiers whose names were inscribed in the diwan; this is...

أهل الحق

The people who have attached themselves to what is the truth with thei...

أهل السنة والجماعة

Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'a

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

The thing: to place it after its position. Al-akhar: one of two things...

Al of the thing: its essence; in the hadith: « given a pipe of the Daw...

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

The shameful part (su'a) of women and what one feels shame about. The ...

It derives from 'awd (returning) when pluralized. In "Al-Ishraf": acco...

أَرْبَعَة المتناسبة

Al-aarbaʿaa al-mtnasba

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

Weariness and toil....

It is the continuation of existence through endless measured durations...

It is the delivery of the object fixed in liability (dhimma) by the bi...

أداء الكامل

Al-adaʾ al-kaml

What a person performs in the manner for which he was commanded, such ...

أداء الناقص

Al-adaʾ al-naqṣ

Its opposite, such as the performance of the one praying alone, and of...

It denotes the knowledge of that by which one guards against all kinds...

In language: announcement in general. In the Law: informing of the ent...

From adha the thing: he was polluted by it; adhahu and adhiyya: foul; ...

أفق الأعلى

Al-afq al-aʿlā

The end of the station of the spirit: it is the presence (hadra) of on...

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

Linguistically: the exertion of one's utmost effort; technically: the ...

The drawing near of bodies to one another....

It is the taking from the hand openly and with speed....

Preferring one of two terms, or of several things, over the other....

Conveying to the gullet (jawf) what admits chewing, whether chewed or ...

It is the request made with equality of rank between the one commandin...

With the unvoweled lam and without pressing of the tongue, as in ma an...

Every community joined by a matter, be it one religion, one time or on...

In language: the sign; in technical usage: that from whose knowledge c...

The absence of expectation of harm in the time to come....

The saying of the speaker to the one beneath him: do....

أمر الاعتباري

Al-amr al-aʿtbary

It is that which has no existence except in the mind of the considerer...

أمر الحالة

Al-amr al-ḥal-a

One says: the affair of such a one is upright; and the saying of the j...

أمر الحاضر

Al-amr al-ḥaḍr

It is that by which the action is demanded of the present agent, hence...

أمور العامة

Al-amwr al-ʿama

What is not exclusive to one division of the divisions of the existent...

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

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

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

Linguistically: the seeking of the qabas, the ember from fire; borrowe...

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

It is said: 'al-rabi'' is the small stream, and its plural is 'al-arba...

Plural of sharab: every thin liquid that is drunk and cannot be chewed...

أسلوب الْحَكِيم

Al-aslwb al-ḥakiym

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

What indicates a meaning in itself without being joined to one of the ...

أسماء المنقوصة

Al-asmaʾ al-mnqwṣa

Nouns ending in a quiescent ya preceded by a kasra, such as al-qadi....

أسماء المقصورة

Al-asmaʾ al-mqṣwra

Nouns ending in a standalone alif, such as hubla, 'asa and raha....

Asara fulanan (asran and isaran): he bound him; he is therefore asir (...

It is establishing the sign to prove what it signifies, whether from e...

That God grant His servant the granting of his need, one time after an...

Linguistically: masdar of istafsartuhu: when one asks him to explain i...

That the child manifest what attests his life: crying, or moving a lim...

Drawing out water from the spring, from their saying 'nabata l-ma'' wh...

It is the state of a line whose assumed parts coincide with one anothe...

That whose existence is awaited after the time you are in....

It is passing judgment on a universal for its existence in most of its...

It is asking for rain after its long withholding....

Praising one thing in a way that entails the praising of another....

The exclusion of a thing from a thing: were it not for the exclusion, ...

Seeking a child from the slave girl (ama)....

استعارة المكنية

Al-astʿara al-mknya

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

Blood seen by a woman for less than three days or more than ten in men...

In language: reckoning a thing good and holding it beautiful. In techn...

It denotes keeping what was as it was, due to the absence of a changer...

It is an accidental quality (arad) that Allah creates in the animal be...

Carrying on the discourse in a way that entails another discourse, int...

Al-Manawi said: it is the effort in seeking and taking the more precau...

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

اتفاقية العامة

Al-atfaqya al-ʿama

That in which the truth of the consequent is judged whether the antece...

It is the making of two essences one; it occurs only in number, from t...

An individual none other of whose kind is prior to it or coeval with i...

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

Seeing the world as destined to annihilation, its actors to death, and...

In language it is the act of remaining and confinement (al-ihtibas). I...

It is to cast one side of one's cloak over the left shoulder, bring it...

Withholding food for the sake of high prices....

Exerting the soul in good deeds....

It is to add, in speech that might suggest the opposite of the aim, wh...

It is that upon which something else is built....

With a kasra: heaviness and confinement. In al-Tahqiq, the commentary ...

One who saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be up...

Al-aṣṭlaḥ

The agreement of a group of people to name a thing by a name that tran...

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

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

The door of the dwelling and the door of the house are well-known sens...

The opposition (mukhalafa) of a group possessing power, able to resist...

A faculty of the heart illuminated by the light of holiness (nur al-qu...

The span between the two palms when the arms are stretched right and l...

It is that which is not valid in its root....

Vile and abusive speech....

To be happy in giving....

It is that whose attainment does not depend on examination and acquisi...

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

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

The lack of attentiveness regarding worldly matters....

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

It is the syllogism composed of certain truths, whether immediate, tha...

برهان التطبيقي

Al-brhan al-tṭbyqy

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

It is what intervenes between two things; it is used for the world of ...

A huge oblong stone, to which the she-camel's head was likened....

It is an enclosure (ha'it) containing scattered palm trees that leave ...

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

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

A lie that stuns (yubhit) its hearer, astounds and bewilders him by it...

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

It denotes the speaker's making manifest to the listener what he inten...

In language: exchange absolutely; in the Sharia: the exchange of value...

An extension subsisting in the body, or in itself, according to those ...

It is a copious portion of wealth set aside for trade and handed over ...

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

In language: scrutiny and examination; technically: the establishing o...

An arabized word: the sixth of a dirham; among the Greeks it is a caro...

Know that al-bayt (the house) is the name of a single roofed structure...

دائمة المطلقة

Al-daʾma al-mṭlqa

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

The wicked and the corrupt, from da'r, which is corruption....

Concealing beneath layers of earth. 'Dafantu l-hadith': I concealed it...

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

A faculty of the soul embracing the outward and inward senses, prepare...

With kasra: what is done with the tongue; with damma: what is done wit...

What veils you from Allah, exalted be He....

It is the perpetual now, the extension of the Divine Presence; it is t...

It is a power issuing from the nerve spread over the body of the tongu...

A divine institution inviting possessors of intellect to accept what i...

An intensive form of ad-dajl, which is lying; roaming the whole earth,...

It is a thing's being in a state such that knowledge of it entails kno...

In language: the guide and that by which one is guided; technically: t...

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

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

The grand vizier to whom, in the affairs of the people, recourse is ha...

In language: circling about a thing. As a technical term: a thing's fo...

دعوة التامة

Al-dʿwa al-tama

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

Derived from al-du'a, which is the request; in the law: a statement by...

Splitting and opening; one says fajara al-ma' (he made the water gush ...

What is obtained from them after war lays down its burden and the land...

That to which the action, or its like, is ascribed, inasmuch as he per...

فاصلة الكبرى

Al-faṣla al-kbrā

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

فاصلة الصغرى

Al-faṣla al-ṣghrā

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

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

The ordering of known matters so as to lead to an unknown....

The falling away of blameworthy attributes, as baqa' (subsistence) is ...

The lack of what one needs; the lack of what one does not need is not ...

The science by which is known the manner of dividing the estate among ...

What takes in a single thing to the exclusion of others....

It is the separation (tafriqa)....

The origin of farz: certainty and determination; and the fariida, on t...

The counterpart of the origin (asl); it is the name of a thing built u...

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

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

فيض الأقدس

Al-fyḍ al-aqds

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

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

It is the troop stationed behind the army, to which one flees in case ...

It is the mode (hay'a) befalling the agent in another through his affe...

The initiating of benefaction without cause....

A universal applying to the thing in answer to the question 'what is i...

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

A verbal noun, from 'aftara l-sa'im' (he broke the fast); 'a man futr'...

The innate constitution prepared to receive the religion....

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

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

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

Its origin is what is sunken in the earth; plural: al-ghitan and al-ag...

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

In equity, and in intelligence too....

What the public treasury collects and the merchants take, in dirhams....

Among slaves: the one whose price is half of one-tenth of the blood-mo...

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

غريب من الحديث

Al-ghryb mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

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

It is making the water flow with trickling (taqatur)....

The heart's absence from knowledge of what passes of the creatures' st...

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

A change that occurs at the boiling of the heart's blood, so that reli...

In the language: to take a thing wrongfully, whether wealth or other. ...

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

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

Anything whose use entails no punishment....

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

In language: liberality; in the Law: transferring ownership of a thing...

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

The pointing to what leads to the sought end; it has also been said: i...

A name applying to faith and to all legislations, for it is by them al...

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

A group comprising a great mass. The "ahzab" refers to those who gathe...

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

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

Speaking with calm and quiet....

اخْتِصَار

Al-iakhtiṣaar

Reduction of wording with abundance of meaning....

اسْتِعَارَة الْمُطلقَة

Al-iastiʿaaraa al-muṭlqaa

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

It is the permission to perform the act as the agent wishes....

In language: winding; technically: that speech framed for a meaning, w...

The encompassing of a thing in its completeness....

Setting forth the ruling of the question....

It is a torpor not original, without narcotic, that removes the workin...

Raising the voice with the talbiya, which alludes to the state of ihra...

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

إِشْعَار

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

It denotes the contract over usufructs (manafi') for a counter-value t...

Stating speech in a manner that admits multiple possibilities; specifi...

In language: resolve and agreement; technically: the agreement of the ...

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

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

A thing's reaching the utmost limit of its bounds, in quantity or numb...

Compelling another to what he dislikes by means of threat....

What is cast into the heart by way of effusion. It has been said: ilha...

Regarding al-moharram....

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

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

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

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

In language: the seizure; one says: amsaktu-hu bi-yadi imsak: I seized...

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

It is spending wealth toward the need....

إنسان الكامل

Al-insan al-kaml

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

In the Sharia: the informing of another's right against oneself....

Pressing the buttocks to the ground, erecting the shins, and placing t...

An attribute necessitating upon the Living a state from which the act ...

What appears of the wonders of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upo...

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

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

What is established by the formula itself, without speech being adduce...

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

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

Masdar of ashraqa, 'to shine'. The sunrise is called ishraq because it...

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

Relating one of the two parts (of speech) to the other; broader than y...

It is spending much wealth on a lowly purpose....

Appropriating good deeds and turning toward them, and counting corrupt...

Setting another person over the safekeeping of one's property....

It is the effecting of the attribution....

It is the oath to forgo intercourse with one's wife for a period, as i...

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

The threat of punishment....

It is the transfer of utilities without monetary compensation....

In speech, it consists in conveying the meaning through a way that is ...

It is the establishing of the legal capacity in the owned slave....

A reciprocal relation such that neither is conceived without the other...

إضمار قبل الذكر

Al-iḍmar qbl al-dhkr

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

Grasping the thing in its entirety, outwardly and inwardly....

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

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

It is that the man be sane, of age, free and Muslim, and that he have ...

In language: prevention and confinement; in religious law: being preve...

جَنَائِز

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

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

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

جَوْهَر الْفَرد

Al-jawhar al-fard

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

With fatha: it is cutting off two feet from the two hemistichs, such a...

It is a state of the irascible power by which one refrains from undert...

It is that the term be meant in its proper or figurative sense; it is ...

It is the syllogism composed of well-known and conceded premises; its ...

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

It is holding a thing contrary to what it is. Objection: jahl may conc...

جهل البسيط

Al-jhl al-bsyṭ

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

It is calling to the true religion....

"Janna": he concealed himself. "Janna" and "jununa": he went mad; and ...

It is being adjacent (a neighbor) in dwelling. I'tikaf (retreat) is al...

In the grammarians' usage: what indicates a plurality of units intende...

جمع مَعَ التَّفْرِيق

Al-jmʿ maʿa al-tafriyq

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

جمع مَعَ التَّقْسِيم

Al-jmʿ maʿa al-taqsiym

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

A name signifying many things distinct by their species....

It is the derangement of the intellect such that it prevents actions a...

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

جرح المجرد

Al-jrḥ al-mjrd

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

A substance (jawhar) receptive of the three dimensions; it has been sa...

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

What is taken from the protected people (dhimmis); its plural is jaza,...

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

A poignant grief that diverts man from what he is engaged in and cuts ...

What is set for the worker upon his work....

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

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

He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and ...

The deletion of the seventh quiescent letter, as deleting the nun of m...

What is to the measure of need, without surplus, and suffices to dispe...

The joining of the guarantor's liability (dhima) to that of the princi...

It is the husband being the match of the wife....

With damma: an entrenched disposition of the soul from which beautiful...

Whatever intoxicates, from grape juice, or (whatever intoxicates) in g...

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

That in which there is benefit and goodness; it is the opposite of evi...

Every word coined for a known meaning to the exclusion of all else; th...

A universal predicated of the individuals of one and the same reality ...

What comes to the heart of address, or the influx in which the servant...

An utterance free of the enunciative operators, predicated of what pre...

خبر نوعان

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

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

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

In language: masdar of 'khalafa yakhlufulu khalafatan': to be left aft...

It is the extension Plato holds void, and the imagined space with the ...

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

The removal of the ownership of marriage in exchange for taking wealth...

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

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

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

In language: from al-khanath, softness; in religious law: a person hav...

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

خشوع والخضوع والتواضع

Al-khshwʿ wal-khḍwʿ wal-twaḍʿ

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

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

Expecting the befalling of a disliked thing or the passing of a belove...

A faculty that retains what the common sense grasps of the forms of se...

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

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

Verbal noun: I disputed him, meaning I contended with him as an advers...

The picturing of the utterance by alphabetic letters. Among the philos...

The state, the matter and the circumstance....

With hamza and two fathas: the opposite of correctness; it may be shor...

Snatching a thing and taking it swiftly; one says 'khatifa l-shay'a ya...

كِنَايَات

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

What contains two words by predication (isnad)....

It is the term coined for a single meaning; among the people of truth:...

It is the accident requiring division by essence; it is either continu...

What is formed with ab (father), umm (mother), ibn (son) or bint (daug...

It is wealth deposited in the earth....

God Most High's discourse relating to the demand to refrain from the a...

It is the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm; God's ac...

It is said, in the literati's usage, for composing prose, as nathr (pr...

An enduring mode in the thing, requiring neither division nor relation...

كيفيات النفسانية

Al-kyfyat al-nfsanya

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

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

What cannot be separated from the thing....

لازم البين

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

لازم الغير البين

Al-lazm al-ghyr al-byn

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

It is the intellect illumined by the light of holiness, cleansed of th...

The party and the band, from iltifaf; its plural is alfaf. It means: t...

That which contains two weak letters....

لفيف المفروق

Al-lfyf al-mfrwq

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

لفيف المقرون

Al-lfyf al-mqrwn

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

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

لغْو من اليمين

Al-lghw mn al-ymyn

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

A proper name signifying the true God, signifying inclusively the mean...

It is a power spread throughout the whole body, by which one perceives...

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

It is in the sense of malqut, that is, taken from the earth; in the La...

With damma of the first letter and sukun of the second. In language: t...

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

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

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

They are attestations reinforced by oath, joined with imprecation, sta...

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

لطيفة الإنسانية

Al-lṭyfa al-insanya

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

It is everything that is good (praiseworthy) in the Sharia....

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

As a linguistic term: the place of going and its time; the verbal noun...

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

مَخْصُوصَة

Al-makhṣuwṣaa

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

What one owns of gold and silver; then it was extended to everything a...

It is he who disposes of owned properties as he wills....

منهج السلفي

Al-Manhaj as-Salafi

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

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

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

مانع من الإرث

Al-manʿ mn al-irth

It is the judgment's absence despite the cause's existence....

مَرْفُوع

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

ماء المطلق

Al-maʾ al-mṭlq

It is water that has remained upon its original created nature, not mi...

That the time of the adhan became unclear to him and he was bewildered...

Linguistic definition: a reciprocal term derived from innocence, signi...

Movement's occurring without the mediation of another act, as the hand...

That whose two sides are equal....

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

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

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

It is seeing a wrong, being able to prevent it and not preventing it: ...

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

One who cannot be compelled to litigate....

It is praising with the tongue the beautiful qualities of choice, with...

A partnership of equals in property, disposal and debt....

The absent one whose whereabouts are unknown and whether he is alive o...

That whose expression's parts do not indicate parts of its meaning....

What gained in clarity over the text, such that no possibility of rest...

It is she who was married without mention of dower, or on condition th...

مفعول فيه

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

A corrupt syllogism, either as to form or as to matter. As to form: in...

It is that the Powerful one veils the ugly deed issuing from one under...

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

In language: fighting; in religious law: warring against the soul that...

What crosses over and passes from its coined locus to something else, ...

It is that whose intended meaning is hidden, such that it cannot be gr...

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

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

It is the matching of beneficence with its like or with increase....

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

The sharecropping of land for the third or the quarter....

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

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

ملاء الْمُتَشَابه

Al-mlaʾ al-mutashaabh

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

A subtle, luminous body that takes various forms....

ممكنة العامة

Al-mmkna al-ʿama

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

It is he who conceals disbelief in his belief and manifests faith in w...

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

A reciprocal form of naskh, which is transfer and replacement; technic...

It is the seeing with insight, from both sides, into the relation betw...

In contrast to mutabaqah....

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

منكر منه

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

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

منقطع من الحديث

Al-mnqṭʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

A maf'al of al-nusk: what is done as drawing near and devotion; its le...

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

It is continuous magnitude; it differs from bodily and qualitative for...

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

مقطوع من الحديث

Al-mqṭwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

It is the sale at an increase over the first price....

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

What has one referent and many names; it is the opposite of the mushta...

The boy near puberty, whose desires have stirred and who feels desire....

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

مرفوع من الحديث

Al-mrfwʿ mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

People who say: sin does no harm when joined to faith, just as obedien...

مركب النَّاقِص

Al-mrkb al-naaqiṣ

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

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

It is what befalls the body and removes it from its proper equilibrium...

Leaving what is due, out of scrupulous purity....

Handing over trees to one who will tend them for a share of their frui...

He is the one who joined the imam after a rak'a or more and who recite...

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

مشهور من الحديث

Al-mshhwr mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

What whose intent cannot be seized except after reflection, following ...

مشروطة الخاصة

Al-mshrwṭa al-khaṣa

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

مشروطة العامة

Al-mshrwṭa al-ʿama

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

مشعر الحرام

Al-mshʿr al-ḥram

With fatha of the mim, al-Jawhari said: and with kasra of the mim in d...

With light mim and raised or light jim: a locative noun (zharf) of saj...

مسند من الحديث

Al-msnd mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

The place where the deposit (wadi'a) is placed. One says: she entruste...

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

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

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

Passing the wet hand without letting water drip....

مسْح على الْخُفَّيْنِ

Al-msḥ ʿlā al-khufayni

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

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

متقدم بالعلية

Al-mtqdm bal-ʿlya

It is the efficient producing cause with respect to its effect; its pr...

What is hidden by the wording itself and whose understanding is not to...

It is the report (khabar) established on the tongues of a people whose...

متواترات

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

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

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

مُبَالغَة

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

مُبَارَاة

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

A reciprocal form (mufa'ala) of darb, which is traveling through the l...

مُهْملَة

That in which the quantity of individuals is not specified, and which ...

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

مُمْتَنع

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

That in which there is not the good pleasure of Allah, the Exalted, wh...

مُقَابلَة

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

An agent noun (ism fa'il) derived from irtidad, which in language mean...

It is the one who intends to travel a medium journey of three days and...

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

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

The plural of miqat; its origin is mawaqit, with a waw, then the waw c...

موقوف من الحديث

Al-mwqwf mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

An existential attribute created the opposite of life; and in the usag...

موت الأبيض

Al-mwt al-abyḍ

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

موت الأحمر

Al-mwt al-aḥmr

Opposing the desires of the soul....

The proper locus of the presentation (al-'ard); it is said: it is the ...

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

A state that befalls the body, distinct from motion, which nature brin...

A homogeneous quality (kayfiyya) resulting from the interaction of unl...

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

With kasra and the unaspirated ha: jesting that harms not the addresse...

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

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

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

A wonder breaking custom, calling to good and felicity, joined with th...

معلق من الحديث

Al-mʿlq mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

What was instituted to indicate a particular thing: these are the pron...

مضاف إليه

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

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

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

A state that no discourse can express. It has been said: it is the Bel...

What is intended by it is secured against substitution and change, tha...

It is the matter in the mind....

That whose prohibition is established without an accident; its ruling ...

It is the free, legally obligated Muslim who has been possessed throug...

It is the noun from which the verb is derived and by which it appeared...

What cannot contain the greatest mosques of its inhabitants....

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

What indicates a single undetermined one....

مطلقة العامة

Al-mṭlqa al-ʿama

It is the proposition in which the predicate's being affirmed of the s...

What whose existence is rare, even if it does not contradict analogy (...

What the fighter is given over and above, that is, what is granted him...

نَّفس النباتية

Al-nafs al-nbatya

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

نَّفس الحيوانية

Al-nafs al-ḥywanya

A state that is the principle of sensation and voluntary movement....

Striking and throwing....

It is to bid on merchandise above its price while not intending to buy...

The devil, for he creeps in among the people, that is, divides and cor...

نَّصِيحَةُ

Al-naṣiyḥaau

A word by which a whole is expressed: willing good to the one counsele...

The information. Sibawayh said: none of the Arabs refrains from saying...

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

Bringing the absent near, alerting the present, turning toward the ave...

Making the specific permitted act obligatory upon oneself, out of vene...

Derived from al-nafaq, perishing: one says the beast nafiqat when it d...

It is the subtle vaporous (bukhari) substance bearing the power of lif...

نفس الأمَّارة

Al-nfs al-amaara

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

نفس الإنساني

Al-nfs al-insany

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

نفس المطمئنة

Al-nfs al-mṭmʾna

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

نفس الناطقة

Al-nfs al-naṭqa

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

نفس النباتي

Al-nfs al-nbaty

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

نفس القدسية

Al-nfs al-qdsya

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

نفس الرحماني

Al-nfs al-rḥmany

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

نفس الحيواني

Al-nfs al-ḥywany

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linguistically: joining and gathering. In the Law: a contract for the ...

Plural of nakida, she of whom no young survives....

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

The excessive punishment of the criminal....

In contradiction....

In language: breaking. In technical usage: showing that the ruling who...

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

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

In language: abolition and transfer; in the Law: that a later legal si...

It is heedlessness of a known thing outside the state of drowsiness: i...

A quality (kayfiyya) apprehended by the seeing faculty first, and thro...

Originally: descent from height....

What surpasses in clarity the apparent, as to the speaker's meaning; i...

(In Persian: to set aside). A species of the species of declension (i'...

Purifying the deed from the dregs of corruption....

The clear fluid; the Qur'an applies it to the man's or the woman's flu...

Plural of nitaq: mountains lying in tiers, that is, flanks and middle ...

A universal applying to all its particulars whose rules are known from...

In the vagina: a bar preventing the passage of the penis: a thick glan...

Oaths administered to the accused in the matter of blood, among the pe...

With the qaf vowelled with fatha: masdar of qasama: the divider of pro...

قَوْل الشَّارِح

Al-qawl al-shaariḥ

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

One who knows lineage by his insight (firasatan) and his observation o...

It is a universal proposition applying to all its particulars....

That in which the dead are buried; qabr is the singular of qubur; the ...

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

The opposite of expansion (bast). With the masters of the way (suluk) ...

The adherence of the intrinsic Will to things in their specific times;...

It is the attribute by which the Living is enabled to act and refrain ...

With kasra on the qaf: it is the combining of the 'umra and the hajj w...

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

A subtle divine reality (latifa rabbaniyya) that has its attachment in...

With sukun of the lam: ink; with fatha: the cutting: one says qalamtuh...

The slave whose sale and purchase are not permitted....

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

In the sense of al-faqara (the segment)....

Cutting; and what falls due in one's patrimony from taking another's m...

In language: from division; in the Sharia: the distinguishing of right...

An act by which the soul flows away....

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

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

قيَاس الْمركب

Al-qyaas al-mrkb

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

In language: it is measuring; one says: I measured the sole by the sol...

قياس الاقتراني

Al-qyas al-aqtrany

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

قياس الاستثنائي

Al-qyas al-astthnaʾy

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

In language: judgment; technically: it is the universal divine judgmen...

قضاء يشبه الأداء

Al-qḍaʾ yshbh al-adaʾ

It is the make-up that can only be by a reasonable likeness according ...

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

It is the learned man of the Christian religion given to asceticism, w...

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

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

With fatha of the ta': occlusion of the womb by a bone or the like; th...

In language: increase; in the law: the surplus devoid of compensation,...

It is shortness of breath....

With damma (in Persian: chaharom hisse, the fourth part). With fatha: ...

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

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

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

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

Fear accompanied by caution and agitation....

Three persons, or from seven to ten, thus in the Mukhtasar al-Kashshaf...

The male of the sons of Adam who has passed the limit of childhood by ...

A name from raja'a (he returned): ruju'an and rajatan; the husband has...

It is the wealth buried (markuz) in the earth, whether created or plac...

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

It is to walk quickly during the circumambulation (tawaf), shaking the...

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

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

What is given to annul a right or to establish falsehood....

رسم الناقص

Al-rsm al-naqṣ

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

رسم التام

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

A human being sent by God to creation to convey the rulings....

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

روح الأعظم

Al-rwḥ al-aʿẓm

He is the human spirit, the manifestation of the divine Essence from t...

روح الإنساني

Al-rwḥ al-insany

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

Abandoning sincerity in the work, regarding in it other than God....

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

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

Being filled with fear....

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

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

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

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

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

It is, in language, the salf (advance sale), for it takes the immediat...

Asking the merchandise at the price at which sale is concluded....

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

In language: a name for that by which one reaches the intended end; in...

سبب الخفيف

Al-sbb al-khfyf

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

سبب الثقيل

Al-sbb al-thqyl

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

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

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

A lightness befalling a man from joy or anger, driving him to act, con...

In language: covering the distance. In law: going out with the intent ...

سفر الأول

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

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

What is contrary to the analogy (qiyas), without regard to the scarcit...

شاذ من الحديث

Al-shadh mn al-ḥdyth

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

شَّدِيدَة

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

In language: the present one. In the usage of these people: what was p...

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

Suspending a thing upon a thing, such that if the first exists the sec...

شَّرْط الْفَاسِد

Al-sharṭ al-faasid

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

What whose being forbidden or lawful is not certain....

The return of the humors to equilibrium....

Every pure, adult Muslim killed unjustly, whose death entails no debt ...

It is the share of water allotted to lands and the like....

The perfect man governing the structure of the total body: gathering t...

See 'al-fard', Allah willing....

The form (hay'a) resulting for a body from one limit (hadd) surroundin...

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

Pain affecting one side of the head....

The uncongeniality of the thing to the nature....

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

In language: it means explaining and making manifest; one says: 'God l...

Describing another by what entails defect and contempt....

Knowing the thing with a knowledge of the sensory kind....

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

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

It is what is concealed: the inner secret (sarrira), intercourse, reme...

In endorsement....

That upon which man has been disposed....

سجع المطرَّف

Al-sjʿ al-mṭraf

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

Giving what is appropriate to give....

It is that which comes from date water, that is, fresh dates, when it ...

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

Taking away the attribution (negating the relation)....

Salkh in language: the stripping of the animal's skin; one says: 'I fl...

سنة القمرية

Al-sna al-qmrya

Three hundred and fifty-four days and a third of a day, so that the so...

سنة الشمسية

Al-sna al-shmsya

Three hundred and sixty-five days....

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

In language: prevention and the covering of a thing. In the hadith: 'G...

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

تأكيد اللفظي

Al-takyd al-lfẓy

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

تَّلْوِيح

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

تَّمَنِّي

Falsehood; a tafa''ala form from 'mana yamni' (he estimated), when he ...

تَّسْبِيح

When it is intended to mean glorification (tanzih) and pure remembranc...

تَّثْلِيث

In astrology, the trine....

Linguistically: turning back. In the Law: diverting the verse from its...

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

تَّعْفِير

When they harvested the palm's dates, they left it forty days without ...

It is the entry of one thing into another without increase of volume o...

The suspension of manumission upon death....

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

It is the spiritual subtle essence (latifa ruhaniyya); it may also be ...

Establishing the question by an argument whose way is subtle for those...

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

That wherein they differ; it is said: the states, dispositions, and de...

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

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

The two currencies, that is, gold and silver, coined or not....

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

Coming down in order to dwell: one says "he dwelt at the abode" (thawa...

Buying a thing in order to sell it at profit....

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

تجنيس المضارع

Al-tjnys al-mḍarʿ

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

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

In language: a reciprocal form (tafa''ul) of khuruj (going out); as a ...

It is extracting what is between the teeth of debris by means of the k...

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

Imposing the burden (kulfa) upon the one addressed....

Bringing a thing one time after another....

With light ta and heavy ra: the bedding (firash) and the like, what is...

Bringing a thing into existence preceded by matter....

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

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

It is the joining of the acts of hajj and 'umra in the months of hajj,...

It is giving an ugly thing the appearance of a beautiful one, as givin...

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

Informing of what is in the speaker's mind to the addressee....

It is the man's following another in what he says or does, believing i...

Conducting the argument in a way that entails the sought end; if the e...

The annexing of a particular to a universal; its reality is the annexi...

It is unity in the concept; it has been said: the succession of separa...

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

The assignment of rank to one of the two proofs over the other....

Like ordering (tartib), but without some of its parts having relation ...

Attending to the articulation points of the letters and observing the ...

It is the saj' found in one of the two paired phrases, or more, corres...

That the purpose of the statement not be known, and that understanding...

In the aspect of quadrature....

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

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

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

It is submission to God's command and the abandonment of objection in ...

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

The nouns whose declension follows that of another, by way of dependen...

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

The belittling and humbling of the soul in relation to the greatness o...

The turning back to Allah by untying the knot of obstinacy from the he...

توبة النصوح

Al-twba al-nṣwḥ

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

Allah making His servants' act conform to what He loves and is pleased...

The uttering of speech in a way that repels the opponent's words; it h...

It is trust in what is with Allah, and despair of what is in people's ...

Placing another in one's own place in disposing of what one owns....

It is the buyer's resale of the goods at his own purchase price, witho...

To avoid a thing....

The assignment of the thing to a determined time....

That the speaker intends by his words something other than the apparen...

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

In language: aiming absolutely; in the Sharia: aiming at pure earth an...

A verbal noun: 'abbara, yu'abbiru (with the intensification of the ba'...

It is the asserting of the existence of the cause (mu'aththir) in orde...

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

That the utterance not be an evident indication of the intended meanin...

It denotes the mention of a thing whose knowing entails the knowing of...

Carrying the discourse to a meaning whose indication is not evident fr...

It is disciplinary correction short of the hadd punishment; its root i...

What a man presents as a gift (tuhfa) of goodness (birr)....

Establishing the question by its proof (dalil)....

Seeking the more favorable and the prior of the two cases....

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

The occurrence of the thing's image in the intellect....

In the language: to remove the sickness from the sick. In terminology:...

It is also called mutabaqa, tibaq, takafu' and tidad; it is the joinin...

Deflation and shortfall in measuring and weighing: it is failing to gi...

A name for what has been legislated in addition to the obligatory duti...

What is established by a proof containing some doubt. Its ruling is th...

It is cleaving to the path of generosity and keeping the covenants of ...

It is a bodily power of man, its seat the far end of the middle ventri...

It is the necessity that the essence itself requires and its realizati...

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

وجودية اللادائمة

Al-wjwdya al-ladaʾma

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

وجودية اللاضرورية

Al-wjwdya al-laḍrwrya

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

It is the one who acts on behalf of another due to his principal's inc...

From al-wali (the protector), which is nearness; it is thus a legal ki...

It is an inheritance to which a person is entitled by reason of the ma...

On the pattern fa'il in the sense of fa'il: one whose obedience is con...

It is dignified deliberateness in turning toward the aims sought....

In language: restraint; in the Law: the restraint of the body upon the...

It denotes your present state: what your unacquired readiness requires...

That in which one judges the necessity of the predicate's affirmation ...

It is the elision of the ta' of mafa'ilatun, so that it becomes mafa'i...

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

It is shunning the doubtful things for fear of falling into the forbid...

Sixty sa'; the sa' is four imdad, and the imdad is a ratl and a third ...

It is that by which one draws near to another....

وتد المفروق

Al-wtd al-mfrwq

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

وتد المجموع

Al-wtd al-mjmwʿ

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

With fatha: in language, the odd of number, what has not been paired b...

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

وُقُوف القلبي

Al-wuquwf al-qlby

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

It is holding a thing in oneself....

In language: assigning the utterance opposite the meaning; as a techni...

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

The annexing of one part of a sentence to another....

The transfer of ownership deferred to what follows death....

ياقوتة الحمراء

Al-yaqwta al-ḥmraʾ

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

The severing of hope and the absence of any expectation of a thing. Al...

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

In language: strength. In the law: the strengthening of one of the two...

In language: knowledge free from doubt. As a technical term: believing...

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

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

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

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

زَّمَخْشَرِيُّ

Al-zamakhshariyu

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

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

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

That by which a number divides into equal parts....

Falsehood; it is derived from 'tazwir al-suwar' (retouching pictures),...

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

It is the slave who flees his owner deliberately....

It is the 'aha (affliction, calamity)....

The intermediary between the agent and the patient in the arrival of i...

With the lengthening of the hamza and the gemination of the open mim: ...

It is a section of the Quran whose parts connect one to another until ...

It is also used for the ascetic (az-zahid)....

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

عادلة والعائلة والعازلة

Al-ʿadla wal-ʿaʾla wal-ʿazla

Know that the problems of inheritance shares (fara'id) fall into three...

In language: that by which a thing is known; as a technical term: ever...

A term coined with a single coinage for an unbounded multitude, embrac...

عَمَل المتكرر فِي مهلة

Al-ʿamal al-mtkrr fiy mhla

The masters of morphology said that the form tafa''ala may come for th...

What makes necessary that the end of the word bear a specific modality...

With the gemination of the ya: it is the transfer of usufruct without ...

Elevation: a thing 'alat (rose): it mounted. In shares: the increase o...

عائلة أَو الْفرْقَة الأولى

Al-ʿaʾla aaw al-frqaa al-awlā

(They are) thereby cut off in their attribution to their fathers and a...

عائلة الأولى

Al-ʿaʾla al-awlā

(The Zaydiyya): for 'Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd had two successors; the fir...

عائلة الْخَامِسَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-khaamisaa

(The Junaydiyya): that which is connected to al-Junayd al-Baghdadi, ma...

عائلة الرَّابِعَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-raabiʿaa

(The Saqtiyya): the one that connects to (as-Sarri as-Saqqati), who wa...

عائلة السَّابِعَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-saabiʿaa

(The Tusiyya): the one that connects to the shaykh 'Ala' ad-Din at-Tus...

عائلة السَّادِسَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-saadisaa

(The Kaziruniyya): they follow, in favor and in allegiance (bay'a), th...

عائلة التَّاسِعَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-taasiʿaa

(The Suhrawardiyya): that which is likewise connected to al-Junayd al-...

عائلة الثَّالِثَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-thaal-ithaa

(The Karkhiyya): that which is connected to Ma'ruf al-Karkhi, khalifa ...

عائلة الثَّامِنَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-thaaminaa

(The Firdawsiyya): it is connected to al-Junayd al-Baghdadi; their sha...

عائلة الثَّانِيَة

Al-ʿaʾla al-thaaniyaa

(The Tayfuriyya): that which is connected to the sultan of the knowers...

It is the act of the legally obligated (mukallaf) done against the inc...

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

It is the waiting period (tarabbus) incumbent on the woman upon the en...

In language: uprightness; in the Law: keeping straight on the path of ...

It is what settles in the heart as an intent to harm and take revenge....

That with which the obligation cannot be carried out according to what...

It denotes the middle thing between excess and neglect; with the gramm...

Keeping a thing and observing it, state after state: that is its root;...

It is the guarantee of the price for the buyer if the sold item is cla...

A settled mastery enabling avoidance of sins while having the ability ...

It denotes the conceit (tasawwur) that one deserves a rank to which on...

In language: returning a thing to its first way (sunna), that is, its ...

In language: a meaning that settles in a receptacle and changes its st...

علَّة الفاعلية

Al-ʿlaa al-faʿlya

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

علَّة الغائية

Al-ʿlaa al-ghaʾya

that for the sake of which the thing exists....

علَّة المادية

Al-ʿlaa al-madya

that through which a thing exists in potentiality....

With kasra of the 'ayn: used for sensibles; with fatha: for meanings; ...

It is the firm belief conforming to reality. The philosophers said: it...

علم الطبيعي

Al-ʿlm al-ṭbyʿy

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

It is the killer striking the victim with what dismembers the parts, s...

With damma and sukun of the mim: it is the ihram, the circumambulation...

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

They are those who deny the realities of things, claiming them to be i...

What has a root and a fixed settlement, such as land and a house....

The back of the heel and the end of everything; 'raja'a 'ala 'aqibihi'...

Tying the parts of the legal act by offer and acceptance, before the L...

It is the deletion of the fifth mobile letter of the foot mafa'ilun, w...

عقل الهيولاني

Al-ʿql al-hywlany

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

عقل بالملكة

Al-ʿql bal-mlka

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

With damma, in the extended sense: it is the dower of the like (mahr a...

The plural of 'arus (bridegroom, bride). Al-Jawhari said: one says: a ...

عرفية الخاصة

Al-ʿrfya al-khaṣa

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

عرفية العامة

Al-ʿrfya al-ʿama

It is the proposition in which the persistence of the predicate's bein...

The last part of the first hemistich of the verse....

The existent that needs, in order to exist, a locus, that is, a substr...

The ends of things, because they follow (ta'qubu) what precedes them, ...

Turning the fluid away from the woman for fear of pregnancy....

It is leaving the company of creatures by seclusion and withdrawal....

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

That with which one binds; 'asaba ra'sa-hu wa 'asibu-hu ta'siban': he ...

Making silent the fifth moving letter, as silencing the lam of mufa'al...

عصبة مع غيره

Al-ʿṣba mʿ ghyrh

It is every female who becomes an 'asaba (residuary heir) along with a...

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

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

Humility and self-abasement....

For number: multiplying one of the two numbers by the other....

Derived from 'darr' (harm), which is what befalls without any possibil...

ضرورية المطلقة

Al-ḍrwrya al-mṭlqa

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

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

It is the plural of diya', like sawt and siyat, hawd and hiyad; or the...

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

ضعيف من الحديث

Al-ḍʿyf mn al-ḥdyth

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

An unstable quality arising from the spirit's sudden motion outward, d...

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

Al-hadith (the new); hence: 'beware of innovation (al-hadath) in Islam...

حَدِيث السقيم

Al-ḥadiyth al-sqym

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

What is preceded by nonexistence; this is called huduth zamani (tempor...

Linguistically: the end of the past and the beginning of the future. T...

The miser; al-'aqis: the twisted one of harsh character....

A statement indicating the quiddity of a thing; with the people of All...

حد الناقص

Al-ḥd al-naqṣ

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

حد التام

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

The mind's swift passing from premises to conclusions; fikr (discursiv...

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

حديث الصحيح

Al-ḥdyth al-ṣḥyḥ

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

Everything that veils what you seek; and with the people of truth: the...

In language: prohibition in general; as a technical term: the barring ...

The predication of one thing of another, affirmatively or negatively; ...

It is composure at the blaze of anger; it has also been said: deferrin...

It is praise for the good by way of veneration, whether for a bounty o...

حمد الحالي

Al-ḥmd al-ḥal-y

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

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

Guarding the sacred and religion from taint....

One of His names, may He be exalted; and 'the true thing' (al-shay' al...

The demand for vengeance; its precise sense: when anger, unable to fin...

A name by which is intended what it was coined for; it is a fa'ila-for...

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

That which indicates a meaning residing in something other than itself...

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

حس المشترك

Al-ḥs al-mshtrk

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

Wishing the departure of the envied one's blessing so that it pass to ...

It is a thing's being congenial to nature, such as joy; a thing's bein...

حسن من الحديث

Al-ḥsn mn al-ḥdyth

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

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

It derives from at-tahawwul meaning transfer; in the Law: transferring...

'Hawala ash-shay'': he changed it. To move it from one place to anothe...

It is a quality obliging the one qualified by it to know and to have p...

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

The growing body, endowed with sensation, moving by volition....

It is what arises from contraction, at the occurrence of a disliked th...

It is the rearing of the child....

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

Under al-fard (the fixed share), God Most High willing....

It is what one is rewarded for leaving and punished for doing....

A people who claim to follow the religion of Noah (peace be upon him)....

It is what is free of all corruption....

A verbal noun (masdar): 'sada-hu' (he hunted it) when he took it; he i...

It is sound together with fire; it has been said: it is the violent so...

It is refraining from complaining of the pain of affliction to other t...

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

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

صِّفَات النفسية

Al-ṣifaat al-nfsya

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

In language: the noun of composing (musalaha): peace after dispute; in...

In language: repelling and turning back; in the Law: the sale of monie...

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

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

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

A state or disposition by which acts issue from their seat sound....

It is the knower's return to awareness after his absence and the vanis...

It is that in which the place of the fa', the 'ayn and the lam contain...

صحيح من الحديث

Al-ṣḥyḥ mn al-ḥdyth

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

It is conformity to the command willingly; it is permitted toward othe...

طب الروحاني

Al-ṭb al-rwḥany

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

طبيب الروحاني

Al-ṭbyb al-rwḥany

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

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

Exceeding the limit in disobedience....

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

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

That by which one may reach, with sound examination, the sought end; i...

It is the name for speech whose intended meaning appears to the listen...

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

It is likening one's wife, or the expression referring to her, or a co...

What the sun causes to pass (naqasatahu), from sunrise to the meridian...

Placing a thing outside its place. In the law (shari'a): transgressing...

It is the preponderant conviction with the possibility of its contrary...

In matters, hesitation....

Al-ashadd: completion. One says: he reached his ashadd (his strongest)...

بيت المقدس

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

فعل في قوله

[Sura al-Zalzala, 7: 'Whoever does the weight of an atom...']. The ver...

Al-Halim (the Forbearing), in the scholars' view: He who defers the pu...

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

نسيان عند الأطباء

Alnsyan and alatba

The diminution or invalidation of the power of intelligence....

أم الكتاب

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

أم الولد

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

عمال الله

They are those who work for Him: either devoting themselves to His wor...

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

أمر بالمعروف

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

It is a subtle, flammable substance....

عند أهل الحقيقة

And ahl alhqyqa

The absence of the heart from the knowledge of what passes of the stat...

عند الأطباء

Every swelling within which is a site toward which the (humoral) matte...

عند القوم

The rank that causes its holder not to seek payment for the work, due ...

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

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

ارْتِفَاع الشَّمْس

Artifaaʿ al-shams

The smallest arc of the altitude circle lying between the center of th...

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

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

صلاة على النبي

As-Salat ala an-Nabi

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

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

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

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

Between them: making them partners....

أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله

Ashhadu an La Ilaha Illa Allah

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

أشهد أن محمداً رسول الله

Ashhadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah

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

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

The wiser; the mention of the more important, as a rebuke to the speak...

اسْم الْفَاعِل

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

اسْم الْإِشَارَة

Asm al-iishaaraa

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

اسْم الْمَفْعُول

Asm al-mafʿuwl

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

اسْم التَّفْضِيل

Asm al-tafḍiyl

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

اسْم الْآلَة

It is the name of that by which the agent works upon the object so tha...

أسماء الأفعال

Asmaʾ al-afʿal-

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

أسماء العدد

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

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

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

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

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

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

I ta'a and ta'a: to obey and submit to him. In the Quran: [an-Nisa, 59...

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

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

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

Aqida terms - letter B

13 terms

باب الأبواب

It is repentance, for it is the first thing through which the servant ...

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

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

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

In the dwelling, if Allah wills....

بدل الاشتمال

Bdl al-ashtmal-

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

بدل الْبَعْض

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

بدل الْغَلَط

Bdl al-ghalaṭ

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

بدل الْكل

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

برهَان التطبيق

Brhaan al-tṭbyq

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

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

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

بيع الغرر

The sale carrying the risk of annulment through the loss of the thing ...

Aqida terms - letter D

11 terms

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

دَار السَّلَام

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

دَائِرَة الِارْتفَاع

Daaʾiraa al-iartfaaʿ

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

Property whose corpus remains in place but from which no benefit is ho...

ضَمَان الدَّرك

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

دار الحرب

According to the Shafi'is: the lands of the disbelievers who have no t...

دار الشرك

According to the Ibadis: it is the town in which the decrees of polyth...

دار التوحيد

According to the Ibadis: it is every land in which the decrees of the ...

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

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

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

Aqida terms - letter F

11 terms

فَضِيلَة

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

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

Rising over people by enumerating virtues....

فالضابطة

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

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

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

With kasra on the first letter. (Persian gloss: sir baha'i wa sir khar...

In language: verification and observation. In the terminology of the p...

That by which man's state is discerned, whether of good or of evil. On...

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

صفاء الذِّهْن

Ṣfaʾ al-dhihn

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

Aqida terms - letter G

8 terms

غبن الفاحش

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

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

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

That whose outcome is unknown, to the point that one does not know whe...

That for whose sake the thing exists....

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

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

غير المنصرف

Ghyr al-mnṣrf

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

Aqida terms - letter H

18 terms

حديث القدسي

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In language: flowing. In sacred Law: the blood shed by the womb of an ...

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

The retention of perceived forms....

It is leaving the homeland in which one dwells among the disbelievers ...

A science in which one investigates the realities of things as they ar...

With a kasra on the first letter and a sukun on the second: the name o...

Plural of hadd, which means in language "prevention", and in sacred La...

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

That by which the soundness of a claim is established; and it has been...

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

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

Aqida terms - letter I

24 terms

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

In the performance....

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

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

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

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

With kasra of the first two, of awghala in lands when going farthest t...

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

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

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

إِمَامَة

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

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

إِقَالَة

Lexically: verbal noun of aqala; sometimes said without alef, rare ton...

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

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

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

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

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

استِنْجاء

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

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

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

Lexically: crowding; also said i’tirad, meaning crowding and difficult...

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

A book, in the register of good, in which is inscribed everything done...

Aqida terms - letter J

11 terms

جَائِفَة

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

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

The name of the Fire of the Hereafter, from al-jahama, which is the dr...

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

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

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

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

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

جمع الْكَثْرَة

Jmʿ al-kathraa

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

جمع الْقلَّة

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

Aqida terms - letter K

19 terms

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

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

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

It is giving with ease....

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

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

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

كذب الْخَبَر

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

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

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

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

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

خبر الْوَاحِد

Khbr al-waaḥid

It is the hadith related by one, or two and more, so long as it has no...

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

خِيَار الْعَيْب

Khiyaar al-ʿayb

That the buyer choose to return the sold item to its seller on account...

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

خطّ الاسْتوَاء

Khṭ al-astwaaʾ

In the equator....

The man, in kufr and koufran: believing not unity, prophethood, Law, n...

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

Aqida terms - letter L

7 terms

لا إله إلا الله

La Ilaha Illa Allah

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

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...

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

لَيْلَة الْقدر

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

لُزُوم مَا لَا يلْزم

Luzuwm maa laa ylzm

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

علم الْمعَانِي

ʿlm al-mʿaaniy

In the science of meanings....

علمه تَعَالَى شَامِل

ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil

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

Aqida terms - letter M

47 terms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

مَنْسُوخ

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

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

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

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

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

The meeting of the surface of a thing with the surface of another, as ...

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

مولى الموالاة

Mawla al-muwalat

In clienthood (wala)....

مَوْقُوف

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

مدمن الْخمر

One habitually given to drinking it; and whoever drinks wine intending...

مفهوم المخالفة

Mfhwm al-mkhal-fa

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

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

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

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

A state attained by a thing because of its being obtained in time, or ...

مُؤَلَّفَة

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

مُرَاعَاة النظير

Muraaʿaaa al-nẓyr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Al-Azhari said: Muzdalifa was named from at-tazalluf and al-izdilaf, w...

Aqida terms - letter N

20 terms

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

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

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

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

With fatha on the second letter (najass): it covers both the legal naj...

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

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

نار الله

It is used as a byname for the sun. Ibn al-Jawn said (he may be one of...

With kasra (nisab): plural of nisba. With fatha (nasab): kinship (qara...

In the mansoukh....

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

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

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

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

It confirms what precedes, whether affirmation or negation; it may als...

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

It is the blood that follows the coming out of the child....

The establishing of connection between two things....

With kasra (nizam), on the pattern of kitab: (Persian gloss: "the orna...

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

Aqida terms - letter Q

21 terms

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

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

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

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

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

In language: resolved intention (al-i'tizam), setting out toward a thi...

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

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

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

قَوس الِارْتفَاع

Qaws al-iartfaaʿ

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

It is that one takes from one's partner item after item in play....

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

In language: justice (al-'adl) and injustice (al-jawr); the word is th...

Masdar of "qama ar-rajul qiyaman" (the man stood up): al-qiyama is the...

قدرة الميسرة

Qudrat al-maysara

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

Obedience; the long standing in prayer; the recitation of the supplica...

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

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

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

قطب الكرة

In the cylinder....

حق الْيَقِين

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

Aqida terms - letter R

16 terms

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

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

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

رَّحْمَة

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

In the language: the general sense of detention. In the Law: holding a...

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

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

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

رد الْعَجز على الصَّدْر

Rd al-ʿajz ʿlā al-ṣadr

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

It is the booklet (majalla) containing a few questions of one and the ...

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

A name for what Allah drives to the living being so that it eats it; i...

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

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

رُؤْيا الْمُؤمن

Ruʾya al-muʾmn

One part of the forty-six parts of prophethood; at-Tirmidhi related it...

عرض الْبَلَد

ʿrḍ al-balad

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

Aqida terms - letter S

39 terms

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

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

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

The freeing of the soul from affliction (mihna) in the two abodes....

سَلام الله عَلَيْهِ

Salam al-lh ʿalayhi

Al-Hasan al-Maybudhi said in al-Fawatih: 'Asad Allah al-Ghalib, 'Ali i...

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

سمع الله لمن حمده

Sami Allahu liman Hamidah

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

Lexically: what faces you of the mountain rising above the slope; plur...

With fa fatha and ’ayn kasra, of saraqa yasriq, daraba yadrib’s patter...

سَواد الْوَجْه

From the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "Povert...

In the language: abstention in general. In the Law: a specific abstent...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is the one extremely far removed from the abode of good; mentioned ...

شركة الأبدان

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

شُّبْهَة فِي الْمحل

Shubha fi al-mahall

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

شُبْهَة الْملك

That the one having intercourse believe the woman he possesses is his ...

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

Avarice with greed, that in what is habitual. Abou al-Baqa’ said: avar...

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

In the language: rasti (Persian: truth), the opposite of lying. In the...

With kasra. In the language (Persian: atiye va hediye dadan va mazid v...

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

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

The road, whether straight or otherwise; and the bridge stretched over...

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

One who works for another for a fee, in selling or buying; in common u...

Lexically, with damma: elevation, which Ibn Sa’id specified as height....

سر السِّرّ

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

Asking of the lower from the higher....

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

حسن التَّعْلِيل

Ḥsn al-taʿliyl

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

Aqida terms - letter T

38 terms

تَّأْلِيف

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sleeping at night and praying during it after sleep: hence this word i...

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

One whom Allah, the Exalted, has protected from acts of disobedience....

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

تَّحْلِيل

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

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

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

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

In language: magnification, glorification, as in the saying of the Mos...

تَخْصِيص الْإِثْبَات وَتَخْصِيص الثُّبُوت

Takhṣiyṣ al-iithbaat watakhṣiyṣ al-thubuwt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The recitation of the greetings (at-tahiyyat) addressed to Allah, beca...

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

In language: circling around a thing. One says: "tafa hawla al-Ka'ba" ...

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

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

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

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

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

تجاهل الْعَارِف

Tjahl al-ʿaarif

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

تشابه الْأَطْرَاف

Tshabh al-aaṭraaf

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

تعلقات علم الْوَاجِب تَعَالَى

Tʿlqat ʿlm al-waajib taʿaal-aā

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

Aqida terms - letter U

6 terms

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

أُضْحِية

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

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

أصُول الْفِقْه

Among the Hanafis: the rules’ science whereby fiqh reached....

حُرُوف الْجَرّ

Ḥuruwf al-jar

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

حُرُوف الزِّيَادَة

Ḥuruwf al-ziyaadaa

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

Aqida terms - letter W

12 terms

وَالرَّابِع

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

وَاعْلَم

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

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

It is a trust (amana) deliberately left with another for safekeeping. ...

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

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

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

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

والمنسوخ

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

والضابطة

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

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

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

Aqida terms - letter Y

4 terms

(Quran 6:158: "The day some of the signs of your Lord come, the faith ...

يمين الصبر

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

يوم التروية

It is the eighth day of Dhu al-Hijja; the reason for its being so name...

عين الْيَقِين

That which direct observation and unveiling grant....

Aqida terms - letter Z

4 terms

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

In language: abandoning inclination toward a thing. In the terminology...

زوج الْفَرد

Understand and memorize....

زوج الزَّوْج

That which is counted only by consecutive pairs....

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Mon 21 Jumada al-Awwal
الاثنين 21 جمادى الأولى

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا

God and His angels shower their blessings on the Prophet. O believers, you should also send your blessings on him, and salute him with a worthy greeting.

Al-Ahzab 33:56

Blessings on the Prophet ﷺ