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Wa 'alaikumus salam
(WALAY KUMUS SALAM)
This is an expression that a Muslim is to say as an answer for the greeting.
When a person greets another with a salutation of peace, the answer for the
greeting is an answer of peace. The meaning of this statement is:And upon
you is the peace.The other expressions are:Wa Alaikums Salam Wa
Rahmatullah.andWa 'Alaikums Salam Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh.
(c.m.j.e)
Wa'd
()
Promise,
particularly the promise of the garden. (t.p)
Wa'id
()
Threat,
particularly the threat of the fire. (t.p)
Wadi-ah
()
Deposit. (i.i.q)
Wadia
()
A deposit,
something deposited for safekeeping. (t.p)
Wafa'
()
Faithfulness,
fidelity, discharging obligations and living up to promises. (t.p)
Wafa' bi'l-`uhud
()
Fulfilling
contracts or undertakings as in "honour my contract and i will honour your
contract. " (qur' an 2:40). (t.p)
Wahabi / Salafi
(wahaby salafy wahabee salafee)
Wahabi/Salafi is
an interchangeable term used to describe a certain practice of Islam. The
term Wahabi is used to describe an approach to Islam that takes its name
from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, an eighteen-century religious leader who
started a movement for the reform of Muslim society. Abd al-Wahhab formed an
alliance with a tribal chief Muhammad ibn Saud that led to the formation of
Saudi Arabia. The Wahabi religious outlook is an exclusive, strict,
puritanical and literal interpretation of the Quran. Salafi Islam has become
a popular term for this type of Islamic interpretation. Salafi claim to
return to pristine Islam as practiced by the early Muslims (salaf, or pious
ancestors.)(o.s)
Wahdaniya
()
Divine oneness. (t.p)
Wahdanlya
()
Oneness, the
unity of the divine names. (t.p)
Wahdat ash-shuhud
()
Unity of
consciousness, unity of direct witnessing. wahdat al-wujnd: unity of being.
there is only one self which is manifested in multiplicity. Allah is one in
his dhat, his sifat and his afal. there is only one entity in existence and
multiplicity appears through relations between non-essential entities. (t.p)
Wahidiya
()
The unity of
multiplicity. (t.p)
Wahm
()
Opinion,
conjecture, illusion, fantasies arising in the mind which are substituted
for reality. (t.p)
Wahsha
()
Loneliness,
estrangement from created things. (t.p)
Wahy
()
Revelation. (t.p)
Wahy
()
Revelation. (t.p)
Wajd
()
Rapture, trance,
the first degree of ecstasy. (t.p)
Wajh
()
(Plural wujuh)
aspect. (t.p)
Wajhu'llah
()
"The face of
Allah", meaning for the sake of Allah, irrespective of any reward in this
life, purely for Allah. (t.p)
Wajhu'llah
()
"The face of
Allah", meaning for the sake of Allah, irrespective of any reward in this
life, purely for Allah. (t.p)
Wajib
()
Compulsory. (i.i.q)
Wajib
()
A necessary part
of the shari`a. (t.p)
Wajib
()
A necessary part
of the shari `a but not obligatory, although it is sometimes used as a
synonym for fard. (t.p)
Wakala
()
Agency; power of
attorney. (t.p)
Wakil
()
Agent. (t.p)
Wakil
()
Person who is an
authorized representative, agent or proxy. (t.p)
Wakil
(WAKEEL)
a person who is an authorized repesentative or proxy. Also can mean lawyer
in Urdu.
(c.m.j.e)
Wala'
()
The tie of
clientage established between a freed slave and the person who frees him,
whereby the freed slave becomes integrated into the family of that person. (t.p)
Wala'
()
The tie of
clientage established between a freed slave and the person who frees him,
whereby the freed slave becomes integrated into the family of that person.
(see mawla.)(t.p)
Walad
()
Lit. "child", a
beginner on the path. (t.p)
Walah
()
Unbounded
ecstasy, utter distraction. (t.p)
Wali
(WALEE)
legal guardian. A friend or protector. Someone who is supposed to look out
for your interest.
(c.m.j.e)
Walima
()
A feast
accompanying a wedding. (t.p)
Walimah
()
a feast after the wedding. The reception.
(c.m.j.e)
Walimah
(wa-lee-mah)
A traditional
dinner feast provided to wedding guests by the groom's family after a
marriage ceremony. Providing a walimah was highly recommended by the
Prophet, whether it be a grand or humble affair.
(c.i.e)
Wall
()
A guardian who is
responsible for another person. (t.p)
Wall
()
(Plural awliya')
someone who is "friend" of Allah, thus possessing the quality of wilaya. (t.p)
Waqf
()
Also habous, an
unalienable endowment for a charitable purpose which cannot be given away or
sold to anyone. (t.p)
Waqf
()
Endowment. A
charitable trust in the name of Allah, usually in perpetuity, and usually
for the purposes of establishing the Deen of Islam, teaching useful
knowledge, feeding the poor or treating the sick. (i.i.q)
Waqf
(wuk-uf)
Term designating
the giving of material property by will or by gift for pious works or for
the public good. Properties with waqf status, such as schools or hospitals,
remain so perpetually, providing endless benefit to the community and
endless Heavenly blessings to the donor.
(c.i.e)
Waqf
()
A stop in
recitation. there are various signs which indicate different weights of
stopping when reciting the qur'an. a necessary stop is indicated in hafs by
a mim, and by a sad in warsh. (t.p)
Waqfa
()
Being held
between two stations. (t.p)
Waqi'a
()
Visionary
experience, a thought which comes and settles and cannot be repelled. (t.p)
Waqifiya
()
Rafidites who
maintained that musa al-kazim, a son of ja'far as-sadiq, the sixth shi'ite
imam, would return and put everything to rights, since they believed that
the seventh imam would complete one cycle and begin a new one; also a sect
of kharijites who suspended judgement. (cf. murji'ites). (t.p)
Waqt
()
Lit. time,
meaning being in the moment and independent of looking to the past or the
future. sometimes the sufi is described as "ibn al-waqt" (the child of the
moment) because of this. (t.p)
Wara'
()
Scrupulousness,
it extends from avoidance of the unlawful and doubtful to avoiding anything
that will cast a shadow on the heart. the faqir must also be scrupulous to
avoid basking in his scrupulousness. (t.p)
Wara'
()
Scrupulousness,
being cautious about one's actions. (t.p)
Warehouses for
merchants ()
See caravanserai
for public ones. private ones are khan in the east, funduq (from gr.
pandokeion - guest house) in the west. also wakala. (t.p)
Warid
()
"Arriving thing";
an overflowing experience which overcomes a person's heart. it is the first
oncoming of gatheredness (jam'). (t.p)
Warith
()
(Plural waratha)
heir. (t.p)
Wars
()
A kind of yellow
dye and perfume. (t.p)
Wasa'it
()
Secondary causes. (t.p)
Wasa'it
()
Secondary causes
to which seekers of Allah attach themselves and thereby gain the object of
their desire. wash union. (t.p)
Wasaya
()
Wills or
testaments. the plural of wasiya. (t.p)
Wasi
()
Executor of a
will. (t.p)
Wasil
()
One who keeps
good relations with his kith and kin. (t.p)
Wasila
()
Something which
makes something else take place. the high place with Allah reserved for the
prophet on the last day. (t.p)
Wasiya
()
Will, bequest. it
can be made by a muslim to a non-muslim or vice versa, but not to one of the
obligatory heirs already entitled to a fixed share. (t.p)
Wasm
()
A marking or a
stamp. in ibn al-`arabi's terminology, a quality which continues from
before-time on into after-time. (t.p)
Wasq
()
(Plural awsaq) a
measure of volume equal to sixty sa`s. (t.p)
Waswas
()
The whispering of
shaytan when he tries to make people deviate. (t.p)
Waswas
()
The whispering
which is done by shaytan when he tries to make people deviate. (t.p)
Watad
()
Singular of
awtad. (t.p)
Wazifa
()
Specific set of
prayers which are recited. (t.p)
Wijada
()
Passing on a text
without an ijaza. (t.p)
Wijdan
()
The second degree
of ecstasy (after wajd). ibn 'ajiba says that it is when the sweetness of
witnessing lasts, usually accompanied by drunkenness and bewilderment. (t.p)
Wilaya
()
Friendship, in
particular with Allah, referring to the wali's station of knowledge of the
real by direct seeing. (t.p)
Wilaya
()
Guardianship of
minor children of the deceased. (t.p)
Wird
()
(Plural awrad) a
regular spiritual exercise involving recitation of alitany of dhikr. (t.p)
Wisal
()
Fasting for more
than one day continuously. wudn': ritual washing to be pure for the prayer. (t.p)
Witr
()
'Odd number'.
Witr rakahs are odd number of rakahs such as 1, 3, 5, etc. - usually 1 or 3
- which are said after the last Prayer at night.
(I.Z)
Witr
()
Lit. "odd", a
single rak `at prayed immediately after the shaf which makes the number of
sunna prayers uneven. the hanafis consider that it consists of the three
rak'ats prayed together with a single salam. it is considered wajib. (t.p)
Wudu
(WUZU)
a purification (abulution) that must be performed before someone does their
salaah or reads the Quran.
(c.m.j.e)
Wudu
(woo-doo)
The act of ritual
purification performed with clean water in preparation for the formal
worship, salah. Wudu serves as an act of physical cleansing as a well as a
precursor to the mental and spiritual cleansing necessary when in the
"presence" of God. If clean water is unavailable, a ritual purification
known as Tayyamum, which involves symbolically touching clean earth, may be
substituted. (c.i.e)
Wudu'
()
Ritual washing
with water to be pure for the prayer of hands, mouth, nostrils, face,
forearms, head, ears and feet. (t.p)
Wujud
()
"Existence". dhat
al-wujud is "existence itself' in its absolute and unqualified purity. in
relation to Allah, dhat Allah is the essence of Allah before being described
in any manner whatsoever. this is unknowable and unknown (ghayb) and
absolutely one. in relation to mystical stations, wujud is the third degree
of ecstasy in which awareness dominates the sense of bewilderment and so the
one experiencing it seeks to conceal it. ibn al-`arabi said, "wujud
(finding) is experiencing the real in wajd (ecstasy)."(t.p)
Wujud
()
Existence or
being. wajib al-wujud, "he whose existence is necessary" applies to Allah,
whereas creation is mumkin al-wujud, "that whose existence is possible". (t.p)
Wuquf
()
Suspension of
judgement. (t.p)
Wuquf
()
Stopping at 'arafa
and muzdalifa. (cf. mawgif). (t.p)
Wusul
()
Arrival,
attainment. (t.p)
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