keywords

• Muslim


  one who has submitted to the will of Allah
• Islam


  the name of the religion followed by Muslims; to surrender to the will of God; peace
• Allah


  Arabic name for God
• Tawhid


  the Oneness and unity of God
• Monotheistic


  a religion that believes in only one God
• Supremacy


  supreme power of authority; a quality of God
• Sunnah


  the teachings and deeds of Muhammad
• Sunni


  Muslims who believe in the successorship to Muhammad of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali
• Shi'a


  Muslims who believe in the imamate, the successorship of Ali
• Immanent


  a quality of God where He is present in and involved with life on Earth and in the universe
• Transcendent 


  a quality of God where He is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe
• Omnipotent


  God is all-powerful and has unlimited power
• Beneficent / Omnibenevolent


  God is all-loving and all-good
• Merciful


  a quality of God where He shows compassion or forgiveness to humans, even though He can punish them
• fairness


  the idea that God treats people fairly without favouring or discriminating against anyone
• Justice (Adalat in Shi'a Islam)


  the idea that God is just and fair and judges human actions, rewarding good and punishing bad
• angels


  spiritual beings believed to act as messengers of God
• day of judgement


  a time when the world will end and every soul will be judged by God, and either rewarded or punished
• Jibril


  Arabic name for Gabriel, the archangel who brought God's message to the prophets including Muhammad
• Mika'il


  Arabic name for Michael, the archangel of Mercy who rewards good deeds and provides nourishment to people
• predestination


  the idea that God knows or determines everything that will happen in the universe
• Akhirah


  everlasting life after death
• resurrection


  rising from the dead and returning to life
• heaven


  the state of eternal happiness in the presence of God; also called paradise
• hell


  the state of total separation from God
• prophet


  a person who announces and teaches the message of God
• Risalah


  the belief that prophets are an important channel of communication between God and humans
• prophethood


  when God makes someone a prophet to send and communicate His message to people
• Iblis (Satan)


  a spiritual being, created from fire, who was thrown out of paradise for refusing to bow to Adam
• Ka'aba 


  the black, cube-shaped building in the centre of the Grand Mosque in Makkah; the holiest place in Islam
• Id-Ul-Adha


  a Muslim festival that celebrates the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son for God
• Hajj


  the annual pilgrimage to Makkah that every Muslim should try and make at least once their life
• Caliph


  a person considered to be a political and religious successor to the prophet Muhammad, and the leader of the Sunni Muslim community
• Imam


  1. a person who leads the communal prayer
  2. in Shi'a Islam, the title given to Ali and his successors
• imamate


  the divine appointment of the Imams
• Qur'an 


  Islamic sacred book
• authority


  the power to give or right to give order
• Arabic


  language of the Arabs, spoken throughout the Middle East
• Caliph


  chief Muslims religious and civil ruler
• Torah


  the five books revealed by God to Moses