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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Revealer, The Messenger, The Message Glossary ADAM: non-being, the opposite of wujud (existence). AWSIYA': vicegerents or representative of the Prophet, referring specifically to the twelve Imams. BASATAH: simplicity; as a philosophical term, it refers to an uncomposite thing or being, which is not subject to generation and corruption. DALIL.: proof or argument; an argument to demonstrate a hypothesis.

DALL FALSAFI: the philosophical proof or argument, used specifically to prove the existence of God. DALIL ISTIQRA': inductive proof or argument; in this book specifically used to indicate-the method of scientific induction used to prove the existence of God. DIN: religion or faith; an ideal to which a person adheres and is willing to be judged by. FATWA (pl. fatawa ): legal opinion issued 'by a jurist dealing with a current problem.

FITRAH: that width is originally created; specifically, man's original state of pure intuitive knowledge of God; generally, the native religious sense. AL-GHAYB: unknown, unseen and unpredictable; usually used to refer to divine knowledge of things to come, e.g., the Day of Judgement. GHAYBAH: lit., absence; used to describe the concealment or occultation of the twelfth Imam, who is in the world but hidden from human sight.

HADITH: an account, report or a statement; technically, traditions or statements related from the prophet on the authority of various transmitters. HISAB AL-IHTIMALAT: the reckoning, computation or calculation of degrees of probability, both positively and negatively. IHTIMAL ( pl. ihtimalat ) : probability; something possible or likely to happen. IHTIMAL QABLI: antecedent or prior possibility, that is, prior to the investigation of the probability of a thing by the inductive method.

IJTTHAD: effort; specifically, considered personal opinion arrived at through to effort of inference, induction or analogy. 'ILLAH: cause; a technical term used in Aristotelian philosophy; cf. ma'lul. IMAMAH: leadership; generally used to describe the leader, imam, in prayer; also a religious head of community. Technically, the term refers to the authority or leadership of the imams, descendants and successors of the Prophet.

IMKAN: possibility; used philosophically, the term refers to the possibility or potentiality in the thing itself as well as an external power which can bring a thing into being or which effects a major change in it.