many orthodox Muslims. Similar to other Sufi doctrines, Fana is based on first-party Islamic teachings. Specifically, the Quran says: "All things in creation...
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Islamic schools and branches have different understandings of Islam. There are many different sects or denominations, schools of Islamic jurisprudence...
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ibn Qayyim, he rejects the doctrine of fanāʾ al-nār.: 284 He interpretes a hadith that there are 73 three Islamic sects from which only one is saved in...
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Sufism (redirect from Sufi Islam)
a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism...
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In Islam, "the promise and threat" (waʿd wa-waʿīd) of Judgement Day (Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-qiyāmah, lit. 'Day of Resurrection' or Arabic:...
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Tawhid (redirect from Oneness of God (Islam))
romanized: tawḥīd, lit. 'oneness [of God]') is the concept of monotheism in Islam. Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon...
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Jahannam (redirect from Hell in Islam)
referred to as fanāʾ al-nār. Thomassen writes that "several types of concerns" weigh "against the idea of an eternal hell in Islamic thought": belief...
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Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey. As much as 79% of the population follows the Sunni Madhab of Islam. Most Turkish Sunni Muslims belong to...
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Wali (redirect from Saints in Islam)
to one of the names of God in Islam, Allah – al-Walī (الْوليّ), meaning "the Helper, Friend". In the traditional Islamic understanding, a saint is portrayed...
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forced to apologise after describing one such celebration by player Karim Ait-Fana for French side Montpellier against Schalke in the Champions League as "eating...
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brought into Islam. A person who tries to interpret Islam through rationalist philosophy was called a faylasuf (فيلسوف), "philosopher". Fanā' (فناء) Sufi...
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Alevism (redirect from Alevi Islam)
incorporating some traditions from Tengrism. Differing from Sunni Islam and Usuli Twelver Shia Islam, Alevis have no binding religious dogmas, and teachings are...
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seeking to create a demographic environment in which Shia Islam would replace Sunni Islam as the nation's religious majority. Over the course of three...
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political parties espousing Islamic identity or political Islam in various approaches under the system of Islamic democracy. Islamic democracy refers to a political...
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Islam New York: St. Martins Press. ISBN 186064760X. p. 90. Gleave, Robert (2011). Islam and literalism: Literal meaning and interpretation in Islamic...
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Nūr (Arabic: النور) is a term in Islamic context referring to the "cold light of the night" or "heatless light" i.e. the light of the moon. This light...
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Yusef Lateef (category Converts to Islam)
record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, a music publishing company. He published his own work through Fana, including Yusef Lateef's Flute Book...
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Sama (Sufism) (redirect from Sema (Islamic term))
is "selfless expression"-an experience of "fanaa". Fanaa (Arabic: فناء fanāʾ ) in Sufism is the "passing away" or "annihilation" of the self. Sema is...
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poor, belief in human brotherhood, the oneness of God, and the concept of Fana. David Hardiman notes that Gandhi's garb was similar that of Sufi pirs and...
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the doctrines of Islamic Eschatology as it has become mostly accepted in Salafi circles. He rejects the "annihilation of hell" (fanāʾ al-nār).: 284 In...
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Karamat (redirect from Miracles of the Saints (Islam))
supernatural wonders performed by Muslim saints. In the technical vocabulary of Islamic religious sciences, the singular form karamat has a sense similar to charism...
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Abdalqadir as-Sufi (category 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam)
numerous books on Islam, Sufism and political theory. Born in Scotland, he was a playwright and actor before he converted to Islam in 1967 with the Imam...
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Gnostics"), Bisṭāmī is considered to be one of the expositors of the state of fanā, the notion of dying in mystical union with Allah. Bastami was famous for...
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Dervish (category Islamic honorifics)
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش, romanized: Darvīsh) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), or more narrowly...
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(ikhlas), and contemplation (muraqaba) respectively; contemplation produces fana. Junayd spend 40 years in his mystic course praying while sacrificing his...
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Pir (Sufism) (redirect from Islam Pir)
reverence for five pirs Newby, Gordon (2002). A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (1st ed.). Oxford: One World. p. 173. ISBN 1-85168-295-3. Renard, John (2009)...
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (redirect from Shaykh ul Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri)
(Urdu: محمد طاہر القادری; born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Minhaj-ul-Quran International...
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to Imam Mahdi. Notably, Noorbakhshia stands out among Sufi orders within Islam for its foundational principles deeply rooted in the teachings of the Aima...
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capital of the Ottoman Empire. Sunni Islam was the official religion of the Ottoman Empire. The highest position in Islam, caliphate, was claimed by the sultan...
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branch of Islam in which Muslims seek divine love and truth through direct personal experience of God. This mystic tradition within Islam developed in...
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