Glossary

• 1st Category:
• Aqeedah: Creed.
• Bid'ah: An innovation or novelty; in this book it refers to religious innovations.
• Dinar & Dirham: A type of money.
• Fareedhah: An obligatory act of worship.
• Fitnah: Trial, strife and tribulation.
• Hadeeth: Prophetic Tradition.
• Hawdh: The Pool which Allah, the Exalted, has granted our Prophet on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever drinks from it once, would never feel thirsty again.
• Hudood: Castigatory punishments in Islam.
• Hukum: Ruling.
• Ijtihaad: In general, it is the exertion of effort. In this book it refers to exertion of one's effort to reach a ruling in an issue.
• I'tikaaf: In general, it refers to seclusion. I'tikaaf is an act of worship whereby the person secludes himself in the Masjid and worships Allah.
• Iman: Belief.
• Jannah: This is the Heavenly Abode or Heavenly Gardens which Allah grants the pious slaves in the Hereafter. It is mistranslated as 'Paradise'.
• Kufr: Disbelief.
• Nafl: Supererogatory acts of worship.
• Shaitan: Satan.
• Shari'ah: Islamic Jurisprudential Law.
• Shirk: Associating partners with Allah.
• Sunnah: Has more than one meaning. It may refer to:
  1. Prophetic Traditions.
  2. Rulings; i.e. it would then mean that the act is endorsed by the Sunnah.
• Taraweeh: Night prayers, which are prayed during Ramadhan.
• Taqwah: Piety.
• Ummah: Nation.
• Wali: The pious, god-fearing, upright Muslim, who is mindful of Allah, observes acts of worship, and abstains from the unlawful.