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Muslims who believe in the Messiah,
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Glossary

Ahl-e-Hadith (اَھْلِ حَدِیْث) The ones who give Hadith precedence over the Quran.

Fidyah (فِدْیَہ) Ransom.

Hadith (حَدِیْث) A collection of Islamic traditions containing sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad(sa).

Ilm-e-Jafar or ‘Ilm-e-Jafar (عِلْمِ جَفَر ) The specific oriental art of divination.

Jizyah (جِزْیَہ) Tax.

Fidyah (فِدْیَہ) Ransom.

Laylat-ul-Qadr (لَیْلَۃُ الْقَدْر) The Night of Destiny.

Muhaddath (مُحَدَّث) An individual who receives an abundance of revelation from God Almighty and is blessed with divine discourse.

Mujaddid (مُجَدِّد) A reformer.

Majruh (مَجْرُوْح) Susceptible to objections and thus not acceptable.

Riwayat (رِوَایَت) The chain of the narrators of a Hadith and its text (Matan) taken as a unit.

Mujahid (مُجَاھِد) The one who wages Jihad.

Ghazi (غَازِی) The one who is not martyred in a Jihad.

Sihah Sittah (صِحَاح سِتَّہ) The six authentic books of Hadith.

Mubahalah (مُبَاھَلَہ) Prayers in which each party of opponents supplicates: “the curse of Allah be upon the one who is a wrongdoer.”

Wa’id (وَعِیْد) The prophecies that promise punishment, provided one does not repent.

Qiblah (قِبْلَہ) The House of Allah in Mecca towards which the Muslims face while praying.