This document discusses key Quranic terms including:
- Tawooz and the importance of Bismillah and Surah Fatiha.
- Definitions of Illah, Rabb, Ibadah, and Deen. Illah refers to God, Rabb refers to sustainer and nourisher, Ibadah refers to worship and submission, and Deen refers to a complete way of life under God's authority.
- Ibadah encompasses worship, bondage, obedience, and total submission and slavery to God's authority. Deen includes sovereignty, obedience, the system of thought and action from God's authority, and retribution.
2. • Importance of Tawooz (Surah Nahl Ayah 98, dua for protection from Shaitan
during Recitation of Quran, dua for obtaining guidance from Quran).
• Importance of Bismillah and its wisdom.
• Other names of Surah Fatiha.
• Importance of Surah Fatiha (Hadith Qudsi) ----- Distribution of Surah Fatiha
between Rabb and Aabd).
• Wajib ul Qirat.
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3. • Definition of Hamd ------ praise (excellence, benefactor).
• Difference between Rahman and Raheem.
• Relation between Ibadat (Prayer) and Dua (Supplication).
• What is “Istaanat”? ------- Asking for Help, who you ask for help?
• Who are the one who you favored are who are the one who incur Allah’s wrath and
who are astray?
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4. Four Basic Quranic Terms
ILLAH
Illah means the one who is being worshipped.
• Someone who can remove distress and fulfill needs.
• Someone who has superiority over the others in status, power, and strength.
• There is some element of mystery surrounding the personality, the power and the ability to fulfill
peoples' needs or to influence events.
• Who fulfill one's needs, provide shelter & protection, soothe a disturbed heart and fill it with
peace & calm.
• Godhood and authority are compulsory together. This authority is indivisible, with no-one else
having the least share in it.
• It is entirely up to Him whether to accede to, or reject, any intercession.
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5. RABB
The three radicals of this word are the letters (r,b,b) and the basic meaning is to bring
up but it also include following connotations:
• One who brings up, rear, fosters or nourishes.
• Guardian, patron; one who supervises or is responsible for carrying out improvements.
• One who occupies a central or focal position, who himself gathers people round himself of his own
or round whom people gather out themselves.
• Leader, head, chief, or lord; one whose word is obeyed, and whose supremacy or over lordship
acknowledged, and who has authority to dispose of men or things.
• Owner and master.
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6. IBADAH
Acknowledging someone other than oneself as holding supremacy or enjoying over lordship
and of abdicating one's freedom and independence in big favor, of relinquishing any resistance
to or disobedience of him, and of surrendering oneself totally to his authority. In Quran the word
“Ibadah” comes in three senses.
• Worship.
• Bondage, obedience.
• Submission and slavery in every aspect.
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7. DEEN
It stands for the entire way of life, of which the composite factors are:
• Sovereignty and supreme authority.
• Obedience and submission to such authority.
• The system of thought and action established through the exercise of that authority.
• Retribution meted out by the authority, in consideration of loyalty and obedience to it, or
rebellion and transgression against it.
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