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HASAN B. ALI. B. ABI TALIB The son of the 4th caliph Ali and Fatima, daughter of Muhammad. Shiites regard him as the 2nd Imam after Ali. al Hasan died in Medina of poision. His wife Jadah, daughter of al Ashath b Kays poisioned him. Yazid b, Muawiyah suborned her
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SUNNI SUNNITE The majority of Muslims belong to this sect within Islam which are rivals to the Shi`ites. Their disputes center upon the claims of the Caliphate. Sunnis accepted all the first four caliphs and accepted the claims of the Ummayyad Dynasty in Damascus to take over the caliphate.
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CALIPHATE Ar: Khilafah. Islamic form of government where the CALIPH is the religious and political head of state. Recommended Reading: * Sir William Muir, The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall Go Back to Main Index
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MAHDI Believed to appear in the end-times, and that Jesus, who is also to appear in the end-times, will be a follower of the Mahdi, and prays behind him. Some, however, believe that Jesus and the Mahdi are the same person. All proof texts are based on hadiths. The Mahdi
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FATIMA Fatima bint Muhammad (daughter of Muhammad), the only surviving member of Muhammad's offspring. She was also called by the name Zahra. She married Ali b. Abi Talib, who became the 4th caliph. She is is the mother of Hasan and Hussein. Greatly revered by Shiites. Fatima bint
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QIBLA QIBLAH direction a Muslim faces when praying. Originally, the qibla is towards Jerusalem, just as the Arabian Jews did. However, when the Jews rejected the message of Muhammad, the qibla was changed to Mecca. * change in Qibla, * Narrated Al-Bara' (bin 'Azib): When the Prophet came to Medina,
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PRAYER al-Baqarah 2:45; at-Taubah 9:103; adh-Dhariyat 51:18; al-Ma`arij 70:22-23; al-Qiyamah 75:31; al-`Alaq 96:10; al-Kauthar 108:2, see also WORSHIP, Salat and Du'a. 5 prescribed prayer: Fajr before sunrist, Zuhr at midday, 'Asr when sun was still hot (before sunset)
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PARADISE JANNA Ar: al-janna, "the garden", pl. jannat. The term al-Firdaus has been used to mean a specific region in Paradise. The Qur'an gives eight different names, which Muslim theologians take to be eight different levels or stages of Paradise: s/no Name Reference Pickthall Yusuf