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| "rememberance" - continual chanting of the names of God, continuous Salat, breathing exercises, and ecstatic dances |
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| "good constitution" - orginial framework or nature of humans as created by God. Humans are inncitetly good but are granted "free will" as well. Cannot be destroyed. |
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| "report" or "account" - individual units that make the sunna |
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| Situation provided which Muhammad made a decision to have pilgramage to Mecca and for the source of stories are required to make a pilgramage to Mecca at least once over the course of their lives. |
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| Sources of Islamic law. "the way". Qur'an, Sunna, Human reason and consenssu of the Umma. |
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| Association of something with God that is not God. Ex: wealth, success, self. A way to avoid it is by practicing the 5 pillars of Islam |
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| The chapters of the Koran, there is 114 of them; each chapter goes in decending order |
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| The world wide community of Muslims; the Hija is considered the beginning of the Umma |
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| "successor" - religious and political leader of the Umma. First 4 captains: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali |
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| spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God; Surname |
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