# the shahada ( Islamic creed )

The emblem depicted the mihrab, the minbar and the shahada, an Islamic creed.

The hermeneutic methodology proceeds as follows: if the literal meaning of an ayah ( verse ) is consistent with the rest of scripture, the main themes of the Qur ' an, the basic tenets of the Islamic creed, and the well-known facts, then interpretation, in the sense of moving away from the literal meaning, is not justified.

The inscription is the Islamic creed, or shahada.

These are revered in Sunni Islamic orthodoxy and their example used in understanding the texts and tenets of Islam by Sunni theologians since the fifth Muslim generation or earlier, sometimes to differentiate the creed of the first Muslims from subsequent variations in creed and methodology ( see Madhab ), to oppose religious innovation ( bid ‘ ah ) and, conversely, to defend particular views and practices.

Salafis reject speculative philosophy ( kalam ) that involves discourse and debate in the development of the Islamic creed.

Other writers posit a “ poisonous, violent, Islamic supremacist creed ” and that supremacism is inherent in a few Muslims as it is in all other religions as Supremacist emotion is human.

A pious ruler, Sebuktegin grew concerned over the increasing amount of innovation ( commonly known as bidah ) in the Islamic creed, and consequently censured those who he believed were promulgating heretical doctrines or beliefs that contravened orthodox Sunni principles.

Islamic militants have stopped at least one bus ( near Jijiga, a rural area ) and demanded Christians recite the Islamic creed, killing those who refuse.

From the Brahmo Samaj springs Brahmoism, the most recent of India's faiths recognised in law as distinct religions and Bangladesh, reflecting its non-syncretic " foundation of Rammohun Roy's reformed spiritual Hinduism ( contained in the 1830 Banian deed ) and inclusion of root Hebraic – Islamic creed and practice.

Iman is generally outlined using the famous 6 articles of faith in Islamic creed:

The Qadariyah have been censured by many rulers throughout Islamic history including the Ghaznavid ruler, Sebük Tigin for what is seen as their bidah ( a newly invented practice in the Islamic creed ).

Aqidah is an Islamic term meaning creed or belief.

* The Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and the full religious rights for all individuals and the freedom of creed and religious practices is guaranteed.

The book's topics are: man's need for religious faith ; the Qur ' an as guidance ; the significant of fasting ; science and faith ; the nature of religious experience ; the meaning of Islam ; science, philosophy and religion ; the Islamic creed ; Islamic rituals ; the social system of Islam ( legislation, the family, characteristics, economic principles, social, and government ); and morality in Islam.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''.

However, i ' thar is also still an Islamic ideal to which all Muslims should strive to adhere at all times.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

The Islamic belief in the afterlife as stated in the Qur ' an is descriptive.

The Islamic word for Paradise is jannat and Hell is jahannam.

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

The Islamic law of inheritance ( Sura 4, ayah 11 ) defines exactly how the estate is calculated after death of an individual.

The Latin name Aelia is the source of the Arabic term Iliyā ' ( إلياء ), an early Islamic name for Jerusalem.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

It contains a mass of information as to the life and customs of the early Arabs, and is the most valuable authority we have for their pre-Islamic and early Islamic days.

Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

It also is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum and the Commonwealth of Nations.

Aluma is remembered for his military skills, administrative reforms, and Islamic piety.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

* A lunar calendar is synchronized to the motion of the Moon ( lunar phases ); an example is the Islamic calendar.

An example is the Islamic calendar.

An astronomical calendar is based on ongoing observation ; examples are the religious Islamic calendar and the old religious Jewish calendar in the time of the Second Temple.

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

It is used to date events in most of the Muslim countries ( concurrently with the Gregorian calendar ), and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days and festivals.

With an annual drift of 11 or 12 days, the seasonal relation is repeated approximately each 33 Islamic years.

During the late 1770s and the early 19th century, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.

This proclamation, however, turned the Sikhs of Punjab away from the rebellion, as they did not want to return to Islamic rule, having fought many wars against the Mughal rulers.

The modern National Council for Muslims, consisting of at least five persons ( all Muslims ) and appointed by royal proclamation, advises the ministries of education and interior on Islamic matters.

Nu ’ ain Bin Abdulhaqq, an official of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front ( MILF ), contends that a proclamation by President Diosdado Macapagal changing the celebration date for Philippine independence June 12, 1898 ( a date earlier than the December 10, 1898 signing date of the Treaty of Paris ) as the date of Philippine independence provides the pretext for Moro independence by redefining the geographical extent of the country to its pre-treaty boundaries under Maura law.

The expression " لا َ ر َ ه ْ ب َ ان ِ ي َّ ة َ ف ِ ي الإ ِ س ْ لا َ م ِ" “ There is no ( room for ) monasticism in Islam ”, is witnessed in numerous Islamic sources.