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Termes employés

The Arabic terms on these pages, how we write them in English letters, and what they mean.

How to read the transliteration

Transliteration follows the Taibah Publishing system. Transliterated words are in italics.

Underline: an emphatic letter or a long vowel. h is ح, s is ص, d is ض, t is ط and dh is ظ; a, i and u are long vowels, as in darurah.
^ is the letter ^ayn (ع), as in ^adl.
‘ is the hamzah (ء), as in ‘ijma^.
A doubled letter is pronounced doubled, as in Shafi^iyy.
Every term is written this way, halal and haram included, and so is our name, Zulal. One word keeps the spelling people search for: zabihah.

Verdicts

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
حَلَال	halal	Permissible under Islamic law.
حَرَام	haram	Prohibited under Islamic law.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
ذَبِيحَة	dhabihahWritten zabihah in Zulal	An animal slaughtered by hand in the Islamic way, so that its meat is permissible to eat.
كِتَابِيّ	kitabiyy	A Jew or a Christian, one of the People of the Book, whose hand slaughter Darul Fatwa accepts.
تَسْمِيَة	tasmiyah	Mentioning the name of Allah, as the slaughterer does at the moment of slaughter.
تَكْبِير	takbir	Declaring that Allah is the greatest.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
مَيْتَة	maytah	An animal that died without a valid Islamic slaughter, whose meat is not permissible and whose bones, hair and skin are impure.
نَجِس	najis	Impure: something that is itself filth in Islamic law, such as pork, blood or wine.
نَجَس	najas	Filth: any impure substance.
نَجَاسَة	najasah	Impurity: filth on the body, clothes or place of prayer that must be washed off before praying.
طَاهِر	tahir	Pure: free of any impurity, as the body, clothes and place of prayer must be.
ٱسْتِحَالَة	istihalah	The complete transformation of one substance into another, such as wine turning into vinegar.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
خَبِيث	khabith	Revolting: a thing Islamic law forbids eating because it is regarded as foul, even when it is not impure.
خَمْر	khamr	Wine and every other intoxicating drink.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
ضَرُورَة	darurah	Necessity: a real need that can make permissible, within limits, what is otherwise prohibited.
فِقْه	fiqh	Islamic law and the scholarly understanding of it.
مَذْهَب	madhhab	A school of Islamic law.
فَتْوَى	fatwa	A ruling given by a qualified scholar in answer to a question.
إِجْمَاع	‘ijma^	The agreement of the qualified scholars on a ruling.
وَرَع	wara^	Extra piety: avoiding what is doubtful even when it is permitted.
عَدْل	^adl	Upright: someone who avoids the major sins, does not persist in minor ones, and is truthful.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
شَافِعِيّ	Shafi^iyy	One of the four schools of Islamic law, and the school Darul Fatwa follows.
حَنَفِيّ	Hanafiyy	One of the four schools of Islamic law.
مَالِكِيّ	Malikiyy	One of the four schools of Islamic law.
حَنْبَلِيّ	Hanbaliyy	One of the four schools of Islamic law.
سُنِّيّ	Sunniyy	Following the way of the Prophet and the main body of Muslims, as the four schools of Islamic law do.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
مُسْلِم	Muslim	A person who follows Islam.
إِسْلَام	Islam	The religion of submission to Allah that all the prophets taught.
قُرْآن	Qur‘an	The revealed Book of Allah.
زُلَال	Zulal	Clear, pure and sweet water: the name of this app.

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning
عَيْن	^ayn	The Arabic letter ع, written ^ in this transliteration.
هَمْزَة	hamzah	The Arabic letter ء (the glottal stop), written ‘ in this transliteration.