ummah
IPA: ˈʌmʌ
noun
- (Islam) The worldwide Muslim community.
Examples of "ummah" in Sentences
- These are the salaf of this ummah.
- Muslims exclude them from the ummah.
- Historically the ummah was very disunited.
- Ummah and nation aren't really equivalent.
- At present there are numerous sects in the Ummah.
- The ummah is one unit and we are working on this.
- It also totally misunderstands the concepts of the ummah.
- At the same time, the early unity of the ummah unravelled.
- It was an invasion for the glory of the Ummah, and nothing else.
- Something which is contrary to the united spirit of the kaliphate and the ummah.
- The Prophet pbuh made the Jews of Medina one "ummah," or community with the believers.
- Mohammed believed that by means of monotheism he could bring about a pan-Islamic and pan-Arab unity called "ummah".
- Ironically, of course, the nearest thing we have to fascsim in the Uk is ISLAM and all those muslims who tacitly support the 'ummah' and jihad.
- If we didn't have the PLO and 30 years ago we followed the positions of Mr. Meshaal, Mr. Haniye and Mr. Zahhar, today there wouldn't be something called Palestine, we would be mere part of the "ummah".
- "One Legacy is the fingerprint of the young Muslim ummah [community] -- it basically personifies the kind of ummah that we have right now," said Yasmin Bhuj, 31, a founder and marketing director who is married to Mattar.
- There is unfortunately a strong connection to western ideals and pre-Islamic practises that is influencing the men and women within our ummah thus causing a severe and sometimes irreparable break in the bonds of marriage.
- According to the group's English language website, the group was founded in order to achieve "the independence of the Muslim land from foreign domination, and the establishment of an Islamic sociopolitical system unitiy of ummah."
- However, if a non-Muslim population refuses to adopt Islam or pay the Jizya protection/subjugation tax, that population is considered to be at war with the Muslim "ummah" and therefore it becomes legal under Islamic law to take slaves from that non-Muslim population.
- Victor D. Hanson in "From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror Parallels between Germany and the Arab World by Ray Ibrahim Private Papers" explains in length the parallel of "ummah" in Arabism/Islamism (as pride in their prophet from Arabia, and a more "true" Arab is rather a Muslim-Arab) as is "volk" in Nazism and in both cases the rejection of Jews were used to