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| Islam Holy City, in Saudi Arabia |
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| Square building in Mecca believed by Muslims to be the house Ibrahim erected for God and the focus of Muslim worship |
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| One that calls Muslims to worship |
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| Muhammad's emigration with his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622. |
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| City where islam originated |
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| A month of fasting; the 9th month of the Muslim calendar |
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| successor to the prophet, The civil and religious ruler of a Muslim state |
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| the ideals both of spreading Islamic belief and of heroic self-sacrifice |
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| From the Arabic "party;" one who believes that authority passed from the Prophet Muhammad to his lineal descendants |
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| The majority branch of Islam, which holds that genuine succession from Muhammad did not depend on hereditary descent from his son-in-law Ali |
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| Muhammad ascended through 7 heavens into Divine Proximity, met former prophets and teachers, Adam and Jesus, saw paradise and hell and received great blessings from the Divine Presence |
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| sets the pattern for individual actions and bonds individuals into a coherent, divinely regulated, peaceful community |
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| Legal experts who study the Qur’an and Sunnah |
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| make authoritative statements concerning how they are to be interpreted |
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| total annihilation in the Beloved |
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| ungratefulness to God, unbelief |
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| associating anything else with divinity except God |
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| 1. believing and professing the unity of God, 2. Performance of continual round of prayers, 3. charity; 2.5% annually 4. Fasting 5. pilgrimage to Mecca |
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| “There is no god but Allah, and M. is the messenger of Allah” |
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