According to the Quran, God sent the Quran to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through His angel Gabriel (Jibra'il) and sent a message to most prophets, if not all, revealing their obligations. Gabriel i ...
Gabriel is interpreted by the Rabbanim to be the "man in linen" in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Ezekiel. In the Book of Daniel, he is responsible for interpreting Daniel's visions. Gabriel's mai ...
Ihsan (Arabic: ??????), also spelled ehsan, is an Arabic term meaning "perfection" or "excellence" (Ara. husn). It is a matter of taking one's inner faith (iman) and showing it in both deed and ...
A central term in Buddhism is "enlightenment", the "full comprehension of a situation". The English term "enlightenment" has commonly been used to translate several Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Japanes ...
As in other Semitic languages, Arabic has a complex and unusual morphology (i.e. method of constructing words from a basic root). Arabic has a nonconcatenative "root-and-pattern" morphology: A root co ...
The "colloquial" spoken varieties of Arabic are learned at home and constitute the native languages of Arabic speakers. "Formal" Literary Arabic (usually specifically Modern Standard Arabic) is learne ...
The earliest Arabic inscriptions date back to AD 512-568. The Aramaic alphabet was introduced to the Arab people through traders from the Mediterranean Empire and the Arab people began using the scrip ...
Pir or Peer (Persian: ????, literally "old ") is a title for a Sufi master equally used in the nath tradition. They are also referred to as a Hazrat or Shaikh, which is Arabic for Old Man. The tit ...
Hafez was born in Shiraz, Iran. His parents were from Kazeroon (Fars Province). Despite his profound effect on Persian life and culture and his enduring popularity and influence, few details of his li ...
The Mewlewī Sufi order was founded in 1273 by Rumi's followers after his death. His first successor in the rectorship of the order was "Husam Chalabi" himself, after whose death in 1284 Rumi's younge ...
Jalāl ad-Dīn Mu?ammad Balkhī (Persian: ?????????? ???? ????? Persian pronunciation: ) is also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Mu?ammad Rūmī (?????????? ???? ???? Pe ...
The literature of Sufism emphasizes highly subjective matters that resist outside observation, such as the subtle states of the heart. Often these resist direct reference or description, with the cons ...
Arabian Peninsula Abdallah Bin Bayyah (b. 1935) – Saudi ArabiaHabib Ali al-Jifri (b. 1971) – YemenHabib Umar bin Hafiz (b. 1962) – YemenMuhammad Alawi al-Maliki (1944–2004) – Saudi ArabiaLevant A ...
Scholars and adherents of Sufism sometimes describe Sufism in terms of a threefold approach to God as explained by a tradition (had?th) attributed to Muhammad,"The Canon is my word, the order is my d ...
Sufis and Sufism has been subject to destruction of Sufi shrines and mosques, suppression of orders and discrimination against adherents in a number of Muslim countries where most Sufis live. The Turk ...
