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ummah
Islamic term, Sufi terminology
Part ofAlamin Edit
Get useworship in Islam, ubudiyya, Commanding right and forbidding wrong, Huda, Justice in the Qur'an Edit
Facet giveSabil Allah, Sirat al-Mustaqim, Al-Haqq Edit
Name in native languageأُمَّةٌ، اَلْأُمَّةُ Edit
Native labelأُمَّة Edit
Vocalized nameأُمَّةٌ، اَلْأُمَّةُ Edit
Ein field of workaqidah, Haqiqa, sharia Edit
Religion anaa worldviewIslam, Sufism Edit
Dem name afterImamate Edit
Found byMuhammad Edit
CultureIslamic culture, Arab culture, cultural globalization Edit
Ein locationMuslim world, Dār al-Islām, world, worldwide Edit
Part of the seriesḤizb Allāh, Abd, Firqa Najiya Edit
Main subjectmonotheism in Islam, obedience in Islam, dawah Edit
CreatorGod in Islam, Rabb, Ilah, Allah Edit
Country of originHejaz, Palestine Edit
Influenced byIbrahim, Ulu'l-azm, prophet of Islam, rasul, Ismail Edit
Significant placeMecca, Medina, Jerusalem Edit
Present in workQur'an, Hadith, tafsir, Islamic literature, Twelve Apostles Edit
Destination pointIslamic view of death, Istishhad Edit
Participantangel in Islam Edit
OperatorMuslim, mu'min, Muhsin Edit
Physically dey interact plussincerity in Islam, dhikr, Dua, Raising hands in Dua Edit
Location of creationAl-Masjid Al-Haram, Prophet's Mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque Edit
TerminusJannah, Firdaws, Garden of Eden, Face of God in Islam, immortality in Islam Edit
Connects withad-dīn, al-milla, madhhab Edit
Get characteristicWasatiyyah, Ajal Edit
Item dem operateiman, Islamic ethics, work in Islam Edit
EnemyIblis, Shayatin, Ḥizb Shayṭān Edit

Ummah (/ˈʊmə/;[1] Arabic: أُمَّة [ˈʊm.mæ]) be an Arabic word wey dey mean Muslim identity, nation, religious community, anaa de concept of a commonwealth of de Muslim believers (أمة المؤمنين ummat al-muʼminīn).[2] E be a synonym give ummat al-Islām (أمّةْ الإِسْلَامُ, lit. 'de Islamic nation'); dem commonly dey use am to mean de collective community of Muslim people.[3] Insyd de Quran, de ummah typically dey referto a single group wey dey share common religious beliefs, specifically those wey be de objects of a divine plan of salvation.[4][5] De word ummah (pl. umam umam [ˈʊmæm]) dey mean nation insyd Arabic. For example de Arabic term give de United Nations be الأمم المتحدة al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah, wey dem dey use de term الأمة العربية al-Ummah al-ʻArabiyyah to refer to "de Arab Nation".[6]

Ummah be distinguished from (شَعْب ˈʃæʕb, "people"), wich dey mean a nation plus common ancestry anaa geography. De word ummah dey differ from de concept of a country anaa people. Insyd ein greater context e be used to describe a larger group of people. For example, insyd Arabic de word شعب shaʻab ("people") go be used to describe de citizens of Syria. However, dem dey use de term ummah to describe de Arab people as a whole, wich dey include Syrians as well as de people of de Arab world. Ummah fi be a supra-national polity plus a common history den identity based on religion. Pan-Islamism dey advocate for de unity of Muslims insyd one nation as an Islamic country anaa an Islamic state.[2]

References

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  1. "umma". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
  2. 1 2 Bissenove (February 2004). "Ottomanism, Pan-Islamism, and the Caliphate; Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century" (PDF). BARQIYYA. Vol. 9, no. 1. American University in Cairo: The Middle East Studies Program. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
  3. "Rohingyas and the Myth of Ummah". Kashmir Observer (in American English). 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. Houtsma, M. Th (1987). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936. Brill. pp. 125–126. ISBN 9004082654.
  5. Houtsma, M. Th. (1987). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913–1936. E.J. Brill.
  6. Team, Almaany. "ترجمة و معنى nation في قاموس المعاني. قاموس عربي انجليزي مصطلحات صفحة 1". www.almaany.com.
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