Who is Allah?

276 Pages·2016·1.25 MB·English

IN THE NAME OF
ALLAH
THE ALL-COMPASSIONATE, ALL-MERCIFUL
● Title: Who is Allah? His Names and Attributes and their Significance to the Individual
● Author: Umm Abdurrahman Sakina Hirschfelder
● English Print Edition 1 (2010)
● English E-book Edition 1 (2013)
● E-book Conversion: IIPH Egypt Branch
● Cover Design: Sarwat Abbas
Umm Abdurrahman
Sakina Hirschfelder
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Hirschfelder, Umm Abdurrahman Sakina
Who is Allah? His Names and Attributes and their Significance to the Individual. / Umm Abdurrahman
Sakina Hirschfelder — Riyadh, 2013
No. of words: ####
1- Allah, Holy names of 2- Allah
I- Title
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Pronunciation and
Transliteration Chart
Arabic Transliterated
Pronunciation
script form
� short ‘a’, as in cat a
� — � longer ‘a’, as in cab (not as in cake) â
� /b/ as in bell, rubber and tab b
� /t/ as in tap, mustard and sit t
� takes the sound of the preceding diacritical mark sometimes ending in h h or t (when followed
(when in pausal form): ah, ih or ooh; or atu(n), ati(n) or ata(n) when by another Arabic
uninterrupted word)
� /th/ as in thing, maths and wealth th
� /j/ as in jam, ajar and age j
� a ‘harsher’ sound than the English initial /h/, and may occur medially and ḥ
in word-final position as well
� as in Bach (in German); may occur initially and medially as well kh
� /d/ as in do, muddy and red d
� as in this, father and smooth dh
� /r/ as in raw, arid and war; may also be a rolled ‘r’, as pronounced in r
Spanish
� /z/ as in zoo, easy and gaze z
� /s/ as in so, messy and grass s
� as in ship, ashes and rush sh
� no close equivalent in English, but may be approximated by pronouncing ṣ
it as /sw/ or /s/ farther back in the mouth
� no close equivalent in English, but may be approximated by pronouncing ḍ
it as /d/ farther back in the mouth
� no close equivalent in English, but may be approximated by pronouncing ṭ
it as /t/ farther back in the mouth
� no close equivalent in English, but may be approximated by pronouncing dh
‘the’ farther back in the mouth
� no close equivalent in English: a guttural sound in the back of the throat ‘
� no close equivalent in English, but may be closely approximated by gh
pronouncing it like the French /r/ in ‘rouge’
� /f/ as in fill, effort and muff f
� no close equivalent in English, but may be approximated by pronouncing q
it as /k/ farther back in the mouth
� /k/ as in king, buckle and tack k
� /l/ as in lap, halo; in the word Allah, it becomes velarized as in ball l
� /m/ as in men, simple and ram m
� /n/ as in net, ant and can n
- � - � /h/ as in hat; unlike /h/ in English, in Arabic /h/ is pronounced in medial h
and word-final positions as well
� as in wet and away w
� long ‘u’, as in boot and too oo
� as in yard and mayo y
� long ‘e’, as in eat, beef and see ee
� glottal stop: may be closely approximated by pronouncing it like ‘t’ in the (omitted in initial
Cockney English pronunciation of butter: bu’er, or the stop sound in uh- position)
oh!
Diphthongs
Arabic script Pronunciation Transliterated form
� � � �� long ‘o’, as in owe, boat and go au, aw
◌
� � � �� long ‘a’, as in aid, rain and say ay, ai, ei
◌
Diacritical marks (tashkeel)
Name of Transliterated
Pronunciation
mark form
� very short ‘a’ or schwa (unstressed vowel) a
◌
fatḥah
� shorter version of ee or schwa (unstressed vowel) i
◌
kasrah
� shorter version of oo u
◌
ḍammah
� a doubled consonant is stressed in the word, and the length of the double letter
◌
shaddah sound is also doubled
� no vowel sound between consonants or at the end of a word absence of vowel
◌
sukoon
Honorific phrases
(the Exalted) Used after the mention of God/Allah to express: Glorified and Exalted is
He
(bpuh) Blessings and peace be upon him; used after mention of the Prophet
Muhammad
(pbuh) Peace be upon him; used after mention of any prophet or after mention of
Angel Gabriel
(May Allah be pleased with him) used after mention of a male Companion of the Prophet
(May Allah be pleased with her) used after mention of a female Companion of the Prophet
(May Allah be pleased with both of used after mention of two Companions of the Prophet
them)
(May Allah be pleased with all of used after mention of three or more Companions of the Prophet
them)
Hadith grade terms
Sound: ṣaḥeeḥ
Reliable: ḥasan
Weak: ḍa‘eef
Odd: ghareeb
Authentic: includes sound, reliable, or any grade in between
Acceptable: sakat ‘anhu; the grader of the hadith did not comment on it, meaning that he
found nothing unacceptable in it