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- Idgham
- In tajweed, merging a noon sakinah or tanween into a following letter so the noon is not pronounced distinctly.
- Madd
- Elongation of a vowel sound in Quranic recitation; madd tabee'i lasts two counts while connected madd may last four or five.
- Asbab al-Nuzul
- Reports describing the circumstances or events that occasioned the revelation of particular Quranic verses, aiding contextual interpretation.
- Isnad
- The chain of narrators transmitting a hadith from its source to the compiler, used to assess authenticity.
- Matn
- The actual text or content of a hadith, as distinct from the chain of narrators that conveys it.
- Mutawatir
- A hadith reported by so many narrators at every level that agreement on a lie is impossible, yielding certain knowledge.
- Sahih Hadith
- A hadith with a continuous chain of upright, precise narrators, free of irregularity and hidden defect, accepted as authentic.
- Wudu
- Ritual purification before prayer, requiring washing the face, arms, wiping the head, and washing the feet.
- Qiyas
- A principle of Islamic law extending a ruling from an original case to a new case sharing the same effective cause.
- Nisab
- The minimum threshold of wealth that makes a Muslim liable for zakat, set at specific amounts for gold, silver, and goods.
- Tayammum
- Purification using clean earth instead of water when water is unavailable or harmful, performed for prayer and related worship.
- Tawhid
- The Islamic doctrine of God's oneness, encompassing His uniqueness in lordship, in worship, and in names and attributes.
- Qadar
- The belief that God's knowledge and will encompass all events, while humans remain morally responsible for their choices.
- Shirk
- Associating partners with God in worship or divine attributes; Islam considers it the gravest sin.
- I'rab
- The system of case endings in Arabic marking a word's grammatical role as nominative, accusative, genitive, or jussive.
- Isti'arah
- An Arabic rhetorical figure in which a word is used metaphorically, transferring meaning from one thing to another by resemblance.
- Jumlah Ismiyyah
- An Arabic nominal sentence beginning with a noun, consisting of a subject (mubtada') and a predicate (khabar).
- Hijrah
- The migration of the Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Madinah in 622 CE, marking the start of the Islamic calendar.
- Bayt al-Hikmah
- The House of Wisdom in Abbasid Baghdad, a major center of translation and scientific scholarship.
- Rightly Guided Caliphs
- The first four caliphs after the Prophet: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, whose rule is called the Rashidun period.
- UN Security Council
- The principal UN organ for peace and security, with five permanent members holding veto power and ten elected members.
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Seventeen global goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to be achieved by 2030.
- Quadratic Formula
- The formula x = [-b ± sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)] / (2a) giving the roots of the equation ax^2 + bx + c = 0.
- Pythagorean Theorem
- In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
- Arithmetic Sequence
- A sequence with a constant difference between consecutive terms; the nth term is a + (n-1)d.
- Photosynthesis
- The process by which plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen in chloroplasts.
- pH Scale
- A measure of acidity or alkalinity: values below 7 are acidic, 7 is neutral, and values above 7 are basic.
- Ohm's Law
- The relationship stating that voltage equals current multiplied by resistance, expressed as V = IR in a circuit.
- Landay
- A short two-line Pashto folk couplet, often anonymous and used to express emotion, love, or social themes.
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- A seventeenth-century Pashto poet and tribal leader known for his martial, ethical, and reflective verse.
- Dari Language
- The Afghan variety of Persian, written in the Arabic script and serving as an official language of Afghanistan.
- Ghazal
- A lyric poetic form of Persian and Dari literature, typically a monorhyme of couplets expressing love or mysticism.