[11] Muslims who lived in Medina during the Hegira and hosted the Muhâjirs.
[12] One of the four right and authentic groups of Sunnî Muslims. The other three are the Madh-habs that are called Hanafî, Shâfi’î, and Hanbalî.
[13] The Prophet’s immediate relatives: hadrat Alî, his son-in-law and paternal first cousin; hadrat Fâtima, his daughter; hadrat Hasan and Huseyn, his grandsons. caliphate. Even if we were to accept the misrepresented form of the hadîth-i-sherîf
[14] The direction which Muslims face as they perform the prayer called Namâz (or Salât). This direction is Ka’ba, in Mekka (Mecca).
[15] Muslims have two Madh-habs in matters pertaining to belief. They are: (1) Abulhasan-i-Esh’arî; and (2) Abû Mansûr-i-Mâ-Turîdî. For detailed information, please see the books Belief and Islam, Endless Bliss, and The Sunnî Path.
[16] The lexical meaning of (sohbat) is (being together). When this togetherness is with someone loved by Allâhu ta’âlâ, it causes great spiritual use and elevation. Since our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ is the creature Allâhu ta’âlâ loves best, it goes without saying how uselful, how progressive spiritually it should have been to attain his sohbat.
[17] Alexander the Great. This name has nothing to do with Alexander, the son of Philip and the king of Macedonia, or Alexander, the king of the ancient Yemen. This Alexander, whose name is given as Zulqarnayn in Qur’ân al-kerîm because he went to Western as well as to Eastern countries, was either a Prophet or a Walî. He lived long before the other two Alexanders. He was of Japhetic descent. Hidir ‘alaihis-salâm’ was one of the commanders in his army and was the son of his maternal aunt. He saw and talked to hadrat Ibrâhîm, who asked a blessing on him. He dominated the European and Asian continents. Upon the request of the Mu’min (Believer) Turks living in the Northeastern part of Asia, he built a great wall in order to protect them against Ye’jûj and Me’jûj (Gog and Magog). Built between two mountains, the wall, which has nothing to do with the famous Wall of China, was six kilometres long, twenty-five metres wide, and one hundred metres tall. Gog and Magog were left behind the wall, and the Turks were thus saved. History books mostly mistake these three Alexanders with one another.
[18] Praising, lauding, and thanking Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[19] Special prayer for asking a blessing on our Prophet’s soul, e.g. ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam.’
[20] Any belief or behaviour that did not exist in the time of the Prophet or his four rightly-guided Khalîfas and which was fabricated afterwards, is called Bid’at.