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Islam. Salah ( Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized : aṣ-Ṣalāh) is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'ah (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'ah varies from prayer to prayer.
Amen. Amen ( Hebrew: אָמֵן, ʾāmēn; Ancient Greek: ἀμήν, amḗn; Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, 'amīn; [ 1] Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn) is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation [ 2] which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. [ 3] It is used in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim practices as a ...
Scheherazade and the sultan by German painter Ferdinand Keller, 1880. The story goes that the monarch Shahryar, on discovering that his first wife was unfaithful to him, resolved to marry a new virgin every day and to have her beheaded the next morning before she could dishonor him. Eventually, the vizier could find no more virgins of noble ...
The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [ 1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages, but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship.
Kassaman. " Kassaman ", [ 1][ 2] or " Qassaman " [ 3] ( Arabic: قَسَمًا, romanized : Qasaman, "we pledge", [ 1][ 2] "the oath" or "we swear" [ 3] ), is the national anthem of Algeria. Moufdi Zakaria authored the lyrics, while the music was composed by Egyptian composer Mohamed Fawzi. The song was adopted as the national anthem in 1962 ...
Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English ), or telephone ( American English and Canadian English ), [ 1] is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [ 2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in ...
The Sword Verse (Arabic: آية السيف, romanized: ayat as-sayf) is the fifth verse of the ninth surah of the Quran [1] [2] (also written as 9:5). It is a Quranic verse widely cited by critics of Islam to suggest the faith promotes violence against pagans (polytheists, mushrikun) by isolating the portion of the verse "kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them".
Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests. It unequivocally holds that God is indivisibly one ( ahad) and single ( wahid ). [ 3][ 4] Tawhid constitutes the foremost article of the Muslim profession of submission. [ 5] The first part of the Islamic declaration of ...