Islamic Glossary

Festival — ‘Īd al-Fiṭr and ‘Īd al-Aḍḥā.

Knowledge — particularly of the Sharī‘ah.

Scholars — heirs of the prophets.

The lesser pilgrimage — performed any time of year.

Etiquette and proper conduct.

The people of the Sunnah and the unified body of Muslims.

The People of the Sunnah and the United Body.

Character and manners.

All praise belongs to Allah.

The Pond of the Prophet ﷺ on the Day of Judgement.

The science of criticising and validating narrators.

The Six Books — the major hadith collections.

Loyalty to Islam and disassociation from disbelief.

The proper name of God in Arabic.

Peace be upon you — the Islamic greeting.

The Hereafter.

Divine blessing — increase from Allah.

The intermediate realm between death and resurrection.

An innovation in religion not from the Prophet ﷺ.

An innovation in the religion.

In the name of Allah.

Remembrance of Allah.

A non-Muslim under the protection of an Islamic state.

Supplication — calling upon Allah.

This worldly life.

Weak — does not meet the conditions of authenticity.

Understanding the rulings of the Sharī‘ah.

Trial, tribulation, or temptation.

The natural disposition every soul is created upon.

The unseen.

Major ritual purification — full body washing.

A narration of the Prophet's ﷺ words, actions, or approvals.

Migration — from Makkah to Madīnah, and from sin.

A narration of the Prophet's ﷺ words or actions.

Pilgrimage to Makkah — fifth pillar of Islam.

Permissible in the Sharī‘ah.

Permissible according to the Sharī‘ah.

A sitting/circle of knowledge.

Forbidden in the Sharī‘ah.

Forbidden by the Sharī‘ah.

Good — second grade of authentic hadith.

Breaking the fast at sunset.

The state of consecration entered into for hajj or umrah.

Worshipping Allah as if you see Him.

Worshipping Allah as if you see Him.

Consensus of qualified scholars.

Scholarly effort to derive rulings from evidence.

Sincerity — purifying intent for Allah alone.

Leader — in prayer, scholarship, or community.

Faith — statement, action, and belief.

If Allah wills.

Submission to Allah with Tawheed.

Submission to Allah upon tawheed.

The chain of narrators of a hadith.

Seeking Allah's forgiveness.

Faith — belief, statement and action.

Hellfire.

The unified body of Muslims upon the truth.

Paradise — the eternal reward of the believers.

Striving in the path of Allah.

Beings created from smokeless fire.

Friday — the weekly congregational prayer.

The cubic structure in the Sacred Mosque, Makkah.

Disbeliever.

Singular reports — not mutawātir.

Caliph — successor and leader of the Muslims.

A sermon — particularly the Friday sermon.

Disbelief — rejecting Allah or what He revealed.

Honorific by-name (Abū /Umm + child's name).

The Night of Decree — better than a thousand months.

What Allah has willed (has come to pass).

Forgiveness from Allah.

Disliked but not forbidden.

The angels — created from light.

Methodology — the path of understanding and applying Islam.

Attributed to a Tābi‘ī only.

Attributed directly to the Prophet ﷺ.

Mosque — place of prostration.

The text/wording of the hadith.

Fabricated — falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ.

Celebration of the Prophet's ﷺ birthday.

Attributed to a Companion only.

Permissible — neither commanded nor forbidden.

Disconnected — a narrator missing in the chain.

A Tābi‘ī narrates directly from the Prophet ﷺ — skipping the Companion.

One who associates partners with Allah.

One who submits to Allah.

Recommended.

Mass-transmitted — beyond doubt.

Agreed upon by Bukhārī and Muslim.

Prophet — one to whom Allah revealed.

Hypocrisy — concealing disbelief while showing Islam.

The minimum wealth threshold making zakāh obligatory.

The grave — first abode of the ākhirah.

Allah's decree and predestination.

Allah's divine decree — good and evil.

The direction of the Ka‘bah faced in prayer.

The Day of Resurrection and Judgement.

Analogical reasoning in fiqh.

The final revealed Book — the Speech of Allah.

Mercy — Allah's overarching attribute.

The ninth month of the Islamic calendar — month of obligatory fasting.

The ninth month — month of obligatory fasting.

Messenger of Allah.

A narrator of hadith.

Showing off in worship — the lesser shirk.

Provision — what Allah apportions to His creation.

The pious predecessors — first three generations.

The first three generations of Muslims.

Master / leader — used for descendants of the Prophet ﷺ.

Intercession on the Day of Judgement.

Intercession on the Day of Judgement.

The testimony of faith.

Martyr — one who dies in Allah's cause.

The complete revealed law of Allah.

Satan — the sworn enemy of mankind.

Associating partners with Allah.

Gratitude to Allah.

The pre-dawn meal before fasting.

The way of the Prophet ﷺ — words, actions, approvals.

The way of the Prophet ﷺ.

Patience and steadfastness.

Voluntary charity.

The Companions of the Prophet ﷺ.

A Companion of the Prophet ﷺ.

Authentic — the highest grade of hadith.

The five daily prayers — second pillar of Islam.

Fasting — fourth pillar of Islam.

The Straight Path.

Stripping Allah of His attributes.

Interpretation — sometimes the actual outcome of a matter.

Seeking blessing.

The generation that met the Companions.

Explanation/exegesis of the Qur'an.

Distorting the texts of revelation.

Following a scholar's ruling without knowing the evidence.

God-consciousness — fearful awareness of Allah.

Cultivation — especially upon authentic knowledge.

Glorifying Allah — saying Subḥān Allāh.

Reliance upon Allah.

Seeking nearness to Allah by a means.

Repentance.

Singling Allah out for worship.

Affirming Allah's names and attributes as He affirmed them.

Directing all worship to Allah alone.

Allah alone is the Creator and Sustainer.

Dry purification with clean earth when water is unavailable.

The bridge over Hellfire on the Day of Judgement.

Circumambulating the Ka‘bah seven times.

The global community of Muslims.

The principles by which fiqh rulings are derived.

Divine revelation.

Obligatory.

Ritual ablution before prayer.

The Day of Judgement.

Obligatory annual charity — third pillar of Islam.