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Terms
used in the Health Education through Religion Series
The following
notes are intended for readers who do not know Arabic and who do not have
an Islamic background.
| Fatwa |
A formal
religious legal opinion |
Fiqh
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Islamic
jurisprudence (literally: understanding and acquisition knowledge). |
Hadith
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A saying
or action ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) or an act approved by Prophet
(pbuh) |
Haram
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Prohibited,
banned, illegal, impermissible, from a religious stand point. Epithet
applied, in general to actions or things considered sinful for Muslims. |
Hijra
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The emigration
of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), from Mecca to Medina in AD 622. The
event is used as the starting point for the Islamic Calendar. |
Prophet
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The Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh), the Messenger of God. Any authority reference
to the Prophet is usually followed by the phrase "Peace be upon
him (pbuh)". |
| Quran |
The Holy
Book of Islam: the highest and most authentic authority in Islam.
Quotations from the Quran are normally followed by a reference to
the number of the chapter (sura) and the number of the quoted verse
(aya). All Quranic texts in this publication are printed in
Italic. |
Schools
of fiqh |
The schools
of Islamic thought or jurisprudence, the four most important of which
were founded by Malik, Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafie and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. |
Sharia
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The body
of Islamic law based on the Quran and the sunna (see below). |
Sunna
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Practices
undertaken or approved by the Prophet (pbuh) and established as legally
binding precedents. |
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