Hello! I was one of the bloggers for this week's (3rd week) reading, and while I read I started a glossary for myself and figured it may be helpful to you all, too? Some are direct quotes, while others are my interpretations. I'm not saying these are 100% accurate, so I'd love for you to comment below if you feel I need to correct something, or that I completely misunderstood a concept. Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Chelsea Trillo
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Jihad: spiritual and inner struggle; “gender jihad” struggle
with gender limitations
Tawhid: principle of equilibrium and cosmic harmony, relates
to the unicity of Allah and relationships/developments within the sociall and
political realm, emphasizing the unity of all human creatures beneath one
Creator (indivisible oneness)
Taqwa: moral consciousness, not accessible to external human
judgment; agency as personal spiritual development forming the cornerstone of
one’s activities in both the public and private realm; “moral consciousness in
the trustee of Allah. It is the motivating instinct to perform all actions as
though they are transparent”
Shirk: opposite of tawhid
Hadith: “one of you does not believe until he/she loves for
the other what is loved for self”
Jalal and jamal: incomparability and femininity, respectively
(referring to the attributes of Allah)
Khalafah: agency, moral agent, “citizen” (human dignity in
the context of civil society”
Khalifah vs. khilifah: trustee/moral agent vs.
trusteeship/moral agency
Dhat: essence reflecting our union with the cosmic design
and the harmony in all creation
Shay’: things
Shari’ah: intellectual movement that began after the death
of the Prophet, the end of revelation, and is NEVER referred to in the Qur’an
to mean a MAN-MADE LEGAL SYSTEM
‘abd: servant
Qadr: Allah’s will, the term
for both power and measuring out
‘ibadah: personal actions of faith and ritual worship,
service in the creation
Ihsan: doing good deeds
Mu’amalat: mutual interactions
Din: complete way of life
Amanah: trust
Mithaq: covenant
Ma’ruf: a well-known, established idea of justice
Halqah: religious study circle; confessional community
function geared to the level of general membership
‘iddah: a required three-month waiting period of sexual
abstinence
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