Glossary
ahl: people; Ahl al-Bait (an-Nabawî), immediate relatives of the Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm); ahl-al-bid’a, Ahl as-Sunna (t wa’l-Jamâ’a).
’âlim: scholar trained in Islamic knowledge and his contemporary science.
Allâhu ta’âlâ: Allâhu ta’âlâ to whom all superiority belong.
’amal: (p. a’mâl) deed; practice of, living up to, ’ilm; ’ibâda.
Amantu: the six fundamentals of îmân.
âmin: “accept my prayer, my Allâhu ta’âlâ the Greatest”.
-amru bi ’l-ma’rûf wa ’n-nahyu ’ani ’l-munkar: duty to teach Allah’s commands and to prevent or to disapprove other’s committing His prohibitions.
-’Arsh: the end of matter bordering the seven skies and the Kursî, which is outside them and inside the ’Arsh.
’azîma: difficult way of doing a religious act or affair: taqwâ.
Basmala: the phrase “Bismi’illâhi ’r-rahmâni ’r-rahîm” (In the Name of Allâhu ta’âlâ the Compassionate, the Merciful).
bâtinî: (’ilm) of heart and soul; Bâtinî, a heretic of Batiniyya.
bid’a: (pl. bida’) false, disliked belief (see ahl) or practice that did not exist in the four sources of Islam but has been introduced later as an Islamic belief or ’ibâda in expectation of thawâb; heresy.
da’îf: (considered to be) reported not as genuinely as sahîh; a kind of hadîths.
faid: outpouring that flow from the guide’s heart to a heart, which thus gains motion, cleanliness and exaltation; ma’rifa.
faqîr: i) form of introduction of oneself, meaning poor, humble servant in need of Mercy; ii) poor Muslim who has more than his subsistence but less than nisâb.
fard: (an act) that commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ in the Qur’ân al-karîm; fard ’ain, fard for every Muslim; fard kifâyâ, fard that must be done at least by one Muslim.
fâsiq: sinful believer, sinner.
ghazâ: battle against non-Muslims; ghâzî, one engaged in ghazâ.
hadîth: a saying of the Prophet; the Hadîth, all the hadîths as a whole; science, books, of hadîths.
haid, nifâs: menstrual, puerperal period.
-Hajaral-aswad: a stone in the wall of the Ka’ba, touched and kissed by theProphet, so very estimable.
hajj: fard pilgrimage to Mecca.
halâl: (an act, thing) permitted.
hamd: glory, glorification.
harâm: (an act, thing) forbidden.
hodja: master (esp, in a religious school).
’ibâda: (pl -ât) worship, rite: thawâb.
’îd al ad’hâ: festival of sacrifices and hajj.
ikhlâs: (quality, intention or state of) doing everything only for Allâhu ta’âlâ’s sake; sincerity.
’ilm: knowledge, science, ’ilm al-’aqâ’id or -kalâm = ’ilm al-fiqh = fiqh; ’ilm al-hadîth, science of hadîths; ’ilm al-hal, (books of Islamic teachings of one madhhab) ordered to be learned by every Muslim; ’ilm al-qirâ’a, science of the Qur’ân; ’ilm as-sulûk = tasawwuf.
imâm: i) profound ’âlim; founder of a madhhab; ii) leader in congregational salât; iii) caliph.
inshâ-Allâh: ‘if Allâhu ta’âlâ wills’.
i’tikâf: retreat, religious seclusion during Ramadân.
i’tiqâd: faith, îmân.
junub: state of a Muslim needing ablution of his whole body.
-Ka’ba: the big room in al-Masjîd al-Harâm.
kâfir: non-Muslim; one guilty of kufr.
kalâm: (the knowledge of) îmân in Islam.
kalimat at-tawhîd
karâma: (p. -ât) miracle worked by Allah through a wâlî.
kashf: revelation.
khalîfa: (p. khulafâ’) caliph; Khulafâ’ ar-Râshidîn, the Prophet’s immediate four caliphs.
Khawârij: (Khârijîs) those heretical Mulims hostile to Ahl al-Bait.
khutba: the preaching delievered at mosque.
kufr: (intention statement or action causing) infidelity, unbelief.
-kutub as-sitta: the six great, authentic books of the Hadîth.
ma’ârif: pl. of ma’rifa.
madrasa: Islamic school or university.
mahram: within the forbidden (harâm) degrees of relationship for marriage (nikâh).
makrûh: (act, thing) improper, disliked and abstained by the Prophet: makrûh-tahrîma, prohibited with much stress.
ma’rifa: knowledge about Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Dhât (Essence, Person) and Sifât(Attributes), inspired to the hearts of awliyâ’.
ma’rûf: good acts approved by Islam.
mashhûr: ‘well-known’ among ’ulamâ’; a kind of hadîths.
masjid: mosque: al-Masjid al-Harâm, the great mosque in Mecca.
mawdû’: a kind of hadîths.
mihrâb: niche of a mosque indicating the direction of Mecca.
mubâh: (act) that neither ordered nor prohibited; permitted.
mudarris: professor at madrasa.
mufassir: expert scholar of tafsîr.
muftî: ’âlim authorized to issue fatwâ.
mujâhid: a Muslim who tries to spread Islam by means of publication, speech or struggle.
mu’jîza: (pl. -ât) miracle worked by Allâhu ta’âlâ through a prophet.
munâfiq: hypocrite in the disguise of a Muslim though he believes in another religion.
nafs: a force in man which wants him to harm himself religiously; an-nafs al-ammâra.
nass: (general term for an âyat or a hadîth.)
nikâh: Islamic act of engagement for marriage.
nisâb: minimum quantity of specified wealth which makes one liable to do some certain duties.
-Qabr as-Sa’âda: the Prophet’s shrine.
qadâ: the instance of happening or creation of what is predestined; qadar,predestination of everything as Allâhu ta’âlâ has decreed from eternity.
qibla: direction towards the Ka’ba.
qiyâs: (of a mujtahid) to resemble, to compare, an affair not clearly stated in theQur’ân, Hadîth or ijmâ’ to a similar one stated clearly; conclusion drawn from such comparison; ijtihâd.
qutb: a walî of highest degree.
Rabb: Allâhu ta’âlâ as the Creator and ‘Trainer’.
rak’a: unit of salât.
Rasûlullâh: Muhammad, the Prophet of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
ribâ: charging or paying interest.
ru’ûs: final exam at the university level madrasa.
sahâbî: (pl. as-Sahâba) Muslim who saw the Prophet at least once; a companion of the Prophet.
sahîh: i) valid, lawful; ii) (hadîth) authentic soundly transmitted.
Salaf as-sâlihîn: as-Sahâba and the distinguished ones among the Tâbi’ûn and their companions.
sâlih: one who is pious and abstains from sins.
sâlik: one who is on a certain way in tasawwuf.
shafâ’a: intercession.
shirk: (statement, action causing) polytheism; ascribing a partner to Allâhu ta’âlâ.
suhba: companionship; company of a prophet or walî.
sulahâ: pl. of sâlih.
sultan al-Haramain: ruler of Mecca and Medina; Khâdim al-Haramain, one who serves Mecca and Medina.
sunna: an act (done and liked by the Prophet as an ’ibâda) for which there isthawâb if done, but sin if continually omitted and kufr if disliked; the Sunna, i) (withfard) all sunnas as a whole; ii) (with the Book) the Hadîth; iii) (alone) the Sharî’a.
sûra (t): a chapter of the Qur’ân.
tâ’a: those acts that are liked by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
ta’addud az-zawjât: (permission for) a Muslim man’s marrying up to four women.
-Tâbi’ûn: successors of as-Sahâba.
tafsîr: (a book of, the science of) interpretation of the Qur’ân.
taqwâ: fearing Allâhu ta’âlâ; abstention from harâms, practising ’azîmas.
tarîqa: a ‘away’ or school of tasawwuf, defined by Islamic scholars.
tashaffu’: asking shafâ’a.
tawakkul: trust in expectation of everything from Allâhu ta’âlâ.
tawâtur: state of being wide-spread, which is a document for authenticity and against denial.
tawhîd: (belief in) the Oneness, unicity, of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
thawâb: (unit of) reward in Paradise.
’ulamâ’: pl. of ’âlim; ’ulamâ’ ar-râsihîn, those learned in both zâhirî and bâtinîsciences.
umma: the community, body of believers, of a prophet.
’umra: minor (not fard but sunna) pilgrimage to Mecca.
usûl: i) methodology or fundamentals of a religious science; ii) methodologies of basic Islamic sciences.
wahî, wahy: the knowledge revealed to the Prophet from Allâhu ta’âlâ.
walî: one loved and protected (by Allâhu ta’âlâ).
waqf: a pious foundation.
wara’: abstention from mushtabihât (doubtful things).
wilâya: state of being a walî.
zâhid: a man of
zuhd; ascetic.
zâhirî: antonyme of bâtinî.
zindîq: an antheist who pretends to be a Muslim.
zuhd: not setting one’s heart on worldly things, even mubâhs.
WHAT IS A TRUE MUSLIM LIKE?
The first advice is to correct the belief in accordance with those which the Ahl-i sunnat savants communicate in their books. For, it is this madhhab only that will be saved from Hell. May Allâhu ta’âlâ give plenty of rewards for the work of those great people! Those scholars of the four madhhabs, who reached up the grade of ijtihâd and the great scholars, educated by them are called Ahl as-sunna scholars. After correcting the belief (îmân), it is necessary to perform the worship informed in the knowledge of fiqh, i.e. to do the commands of the Sharî’at and to abstain from what it prohibits. One should perform the namâz five times each day without reluctance and slackness, and being careful about its conditions and ta’dîl-i arkân. He who has as mush money as nisâb should pay zakât. Imâm-i a’zâm Abû Hanîfa says, “Also, it is necessary to pay the zakât of gold and silver which women use as ornaments.”
One should not waste his precious life even on unnecessary mubâhs. It is certainly necessary not to waste it on harâm. We should not get involved with taghannî, singing, musical instruments, or songs. We should not be deceived by the pleasure they give our nafses. These are poisons mixed with honey and covered with sugar.
One should not commit giybat. Giybat is harâm. [Giybat means to talk about a Muslim’s or a Zimmî’s secret fault behind his back. It is necessary to tell Muslims about the faults of the Harbîs, about the sins of those who commit these sins in public, about the evils of those who torment Muslims and who deceive Muslims in buying and selling, thus causing Muslims to beware their harms, and to tell about the slanders of those who talk and write about Islam wrongfully; these are not giybat. Radd-ul-Muhtâr: 5-263)].
One should not spread gossip (carry words) among Muslims. It has been declared that various kinds of torments would be done to those who commit these two kinds of sins. Also, it is harâm to lie and slander, and must be abstained from. These two evils were harâm in every religion. Their punishments are very heavy. It is very blessed to conceal Muslims’ defects, not to spread their secret sins and to forgive them their faults. One should be compassionate towards one’s inferiors, those under one’s command [such as wives, children, students, soldiers] and the poor. One should not reproach them for their faults. One should not hurt or heat or swear at those poor persons for trivial reasons. One should attack nobody’s property, life, honour, or chastity. Debts to everyone and to the government must be paid. Bribery, accepting or giving, is harâm. However, it would not be bribery to give it in order to get rid of the opppression of a cruel one, or to avoid a disgusting situation. But accepting this would be harâm, too. Everybody should see own defects, and should every hour think of the faults which they have committed towards Allahu ta’âlâ. They should always bear in mind that Allahu ta’âlâ does not hurry in punishing them, nor does He cut off their sustenance. The words of command from our parents, or from the government, compatible with sharî’a, must be obeyed, but the ones, incompatible with sharî’a, should not be resisted against so that we should not cause fitna. [See the 123rd letter in the second volume of the book Maktûbât-ı Ma’sûmiyya.]
After correcting the belief and doing the commands of fiqh, one should spend all one’s time remembering Allahu ta’âlâ. One should continue remembering, mentioning Allahu ta’âlâ as the great men of religion have communicated. One should feel hostility towards all the things that will prevent the heart from remembering Allahu ta’âlâ. The more you adhere to the Sharî’at, the more delicious it will be to remember Him. As indolence, laziness increase in obeying the Sharî’at, that flavour will gradually decrase, being thoroughly gone at last. What should I write more than what I have written already? It will be enough for the reasonable one. We should not fall into the traps of the enemies of Islam and we should not believe their lies and slanders.
Bangsamoro Students Union
Pakistan
17 JUN 1992
HAKIKAT KITABEVI
Darussafaka Cad. No. 57/A P.K. 35
34262- Fatih
Istanbul, Turkey
Respected Brothers in Islam,
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah!
Alhamdulillah. It is our great pleasure to express our million thanks for all efforts and assistance you are extending to us. We are very much happy upon receiving and reading numbers of your books. We deeply admire your beautiful publications, bless and pure, guiding humanity to the straight path and truth. How much we appreciate the effort you are exerting in order to produce it. For us, it appears, with its main Islamic topics, as the full moon, gleaming in the night, shedding light and attracting everybody's attention.
We are grateful for the blessed task you are undertaking, applying the ordinace of the following verse:
"CALL UNTO THE WAY OF THY LORD WITH WISDOM AND MAIR EXHORTATION AND REASON WITH THEM IN THE BETTER WAY" (Qur-an 16: 125).
In this connection, we are very much grateful if you could send us more copies of your other books, magazines or any other reading materials.
By the way, here is the list of the books we received last 6th of May 1992.
1. Endless Bliss-from First to Fifth Fascicle except the 4th
2. The Religion Reformers in Islam
3. The Sunni Path
4. Belief and Islam
5. The Proof of Prophethood
6. Answer to an Enemy of Islam
7. Advice for the Muslim
8. Islam and Christianity
10. The Confessions of A British Spy
Lastly, kindly accept our gratitude once again for all the efforts you are exerting towards consolidating ties among Muslims and our brotherly regards to all staff of your publication.
May the Almighty Allah help you to spread the voice of Truth, Justice and Faith.
WASSALAM!
Your Brother in Islam,
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY HAKIKAT KITABEVI
ENGLISH:
1- Endless Bliss I, 288 pp.
2- Endless Bliss II, 368 pp.
3- Endless Bliss III, 288 pp.
4- Endless Bliss IV, 384 pp.
5- Endless Bliss V, 272 pp.
6- Islam's Reformers, 320 pp.
7- The Sunni Path, 112 pp.
8- Belief and Islam, 112 pp.
9- The Proof of Prophethood, 144 pp.
10- Answer to an Enemy of Islam, 128 pp.
11- Advice for the Muslim, 352 pp.
12- Islam and Christianity, 336 pp.
13- Could Not Answer, 432 pp.
14- Confessions of a British Spy, 128 pp.
15- Documents of the Right Word, 496 pp.
16- Why Did They Become Muslims?, 304 pp.
17- Ethics of Islam, 240 pp.
18- Sahaba 'The Blessed', 384 pp.
DEUTSCH:
1- Islam, der Wee der Sunniten, 128 Seiten
2- Glaube und Islam, 128 Seiten
3- Islam und Christentum, 352 Seiten
4- Beweis des Prophetentums, 160 Seiten
5- Gestandnisse von einem Britischen Spion, 176 Seiten
6- Islamische Sitte, 288 Seiten EN
FRANCAIS:
1- LTslam et la Voie de Sunna, 112 pp.
2- Foi et Islam, 128 pp.
3- Islam et Christianisme, 304 pp.
4- L'evidence de la Prophetie, et les Temps de Prieres, 144 pp.
5- Ar-radd al Jamil, Ayyuha'l-Walad (Al-Ghazali), 96 pp.
6- Al-Munqid min ad'Dalal, (Al-Ghazali), 64 pp.
SHQIP:
1- Besimi dhe Islami, 96 fq.
2- Njonuri nga namazit, 208 fq.
ESPANOL:
1- Creencia e Islam, 112
Пo pyccKИ:
1- bccm Hy>KHa5i Bepa, (128) cxp
2- npHSHdHHH AnrjiHftcKoro UlriHOHa, (144) CTp.
3- KnTa6-yc-CajiaT (MojiHTseHHHK) KHHra o HaMase, (224) ctd.
4-OCbiH moh (256) crp.
5- PeJiHFfl McJiam (256) crp.
A3EPБAJЧAHЧA:
1- ha pK d c d Jla3biM Ojian HMaH, (96) cah.
HA БЪЛГAPCKИE3ИK:
1- Bflpa h HcJiflM. (128) cip.
2-HAMA3 KHTABTj (256) CTp.
BOSHNJAKISHT:
Sivima Potrebn Iman. (96) str.
A’ûdhu billah-imin-esh-shaytân-ir-rajîm
Bi-s-mi-llâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm
Resûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “When fasâd (mischief, instigation, disunion, tumult) runs rife among my Ummat (Muslims), a person who abides by mySunnat will acquire blessings equal to the amount deserved by a hundred martyrs.”
Scholars affiliated with any one of the fourMadhhabs, (which are, namely, Hanafî, Mâlikî,Shâfi’î and Hanbalî,) are called Scholars of Ahl as-Sunna. The leader of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna is al-Imâm al-a’zam Abû Hanîfa. These scholars recorded what they had heard from the Sahâba-i-kirâm, who, in their turn, had told them what they had heard from the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’.
The earth is populated by three groups ofpeople today:
1– Disbelievers. These people say thatthey are not Muslims. Jews and Christians are in this group.
2– The Sunnî Muslims. These people existwith an ever-increasing population in every country.
3– (Hypocrites called) Munâfiqs. They say that they are Muslims. With respect to îmân and some acts of worship, they are notcomparable to the Ahl as-Sunnat. They are not true Muslims.
Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated, “A person whom Allâhu ta’âlâ loves very much is one who learns his religion and teaches it to others. Learn your religion fromthe mouths of Islamic scholars!”
A person who cannot find a true scholar must learn by reading books written by the scholars of Ahl as-sunna, and try hard to spread these books. A Muslim who has ’ilm (knowledge), ’amal (practising what one knows; obeying Islam’s commandments and prohibitions), and ikhlâs (doing everything only to please Allâhu ta’âlâ) is called an Islamic scholar. A person who represents himself as an Islamic scholar though he lacks any one of these qualifications is called an ‘evil religious scholar’, or an ‘impostor’. An Islamic scholar is a guard who protects Islam. An impostor is Satan’s accomplice.[132]