Notes

Ahl-e-Sunnat		Followers of the four Imams of Fiqh: Abu Hanifa, lbn Hambal, Shafei and Maliki.
Sadat		Descendants of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Shar'iat		Islamic Laws Muslim Personal Law.
lmam Husain		Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) grandson who was martyred at Karbala (now in Iraq) by the hordes of Yazid.
Hazrat Ali		Fourth Caliph (RA) of Islam and cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Hazrat Amina		Also the name of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) Mother.
Ta-haj-jud		Late night prayer.
Abdullah		Also the name of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) Father.
Abul Qasim		Also the patronymic appellation (kuniyat) of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Hazrat Khizr		Prophet (AHS) who is said to have discovered the fountain of life (Aab-e-Hayat) and drunk from it to eternal existence.
Mahdi		The rightly guided.
Hazrat Sauban		Also spelt Thouban, Thawban and Soban; a companion of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and narrator of a number of Ahadith (Traditions of the Prophet (PBUH)).
This Hadith		(Tradition) has been reported by Muhammad Ibn Majah and others in their collections of Prophet's (PBUH) traditions.
Migration start		At the age of forty and continued for the rest of his life.
Baizavi		Also spelt Baydawi; his full name is Abdullah bin Umar al-Baydawi.
Tafseer-e-Mudrik		Written by Imam Abda]lah Bin Ahmed Bin Mahmood al-Nasfi. The name of the book is Tafseer-Mudnk a!-Tarazeel 0 Haqaeq al-Taveel.
Tafseer-e-Kabeer		By Imam Fakhruddin Raazi, who had memorised 100,000 traditions of the Prophet (PBUH); author of over 200 books.
Sharah-e-Arbaeen		by Kirmnani and Nowawi: The full name of the later is Abu Zakariiya Muhiyuddin Bin Sharaf Nowawi; a well known Imam of Shafei school of Fiqh.
Tauzeeh		Full name of the book if Tauzeeh-O-Talveeh, a book on principles of Fiqh.
Muslim		Full name is Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri, author of a score of books including Sahih Muslim Traditions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Bukhari		Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, traditionist author of Sahih Bukhari on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) traditions.
Badr		The battle of Badr in the second year of the Hijrah
Tabuk		The battle of Tabuk in the tenth year of Hijrah.
Gujarat		A state (Province) in western India.
Sindh		Now the southern province of Pakistan.
Name of a city		Now in Afghanistan.
Makkah		Islam's holiest city now in Saudi Arabia.
Hadith		Abu Huraira quotes Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as saying that lmam Mahdi (PBUH) will take the oath of fealty (bai't) from his followers between "rukn" and "muqam", two important points in the holy mosque (Ka'aba) in Makkah.
Torah		The Book of Moses (AHS); The Pentateush; the Law Moses (AHS)
Muhammad (PBUH)		Muhammad (PBUH) is translated as "Glorified" and Ahmed (PBUH) as "Most Glorified". Muhammad (PBUH) by Martin Lings, New Delhi, l983, p.47.
Seir		"And he said, the Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them, he shined from Mount Paran (Faran Near Makkah), and he came with ten thousand saints; from his right hand went a fiery law for them. (Deuteronomy 33:2).
Hafsa (RA)		Daughter of second Caliph. Hazrath Umar (RA), and wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Baithullah		The Holy Mosque at Makkah.
Umm Salama (RA)		Daughter of Abi Umayyah and wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Ka'aba		Holy Mosque at Makkah.
The author of book,		Hazrat Syed Ali alias Makki Baday Miyan is the great great grandfather of eminent scholar Hazrat Syed Shamsi Yadullahi. (Shamsi S/o Syed Ali S/o Syed Ashraf alias Aalim Acha Miyan S/o Syed Ali alias Makki Baday Miyan, author of the book AI-QAUL AL-MAHMOOD.
Iste'ab		AL-ITE'AB FI MA'ARIFAT AL-AS-HAB by Umar ibn Al-Birr alias Yousuf Bin Abdallah.
Ibn Majah		Abu Abdallah Muhammad bin Yazid bin Abdallah ibn Majah, author of the book SUNAN IBN MAJAH. Hakim: Abu Abdallah Muhammad bin Aballah of Naishapur, Eminent muhaddith, who had memorised Prophet's (PBUH) traditions. Abu Nu'yam: Abu Hu'yam Ahmed bin Abdallah Isfahani, another Muhaddith.
Quoted from the book		"Muhammad (PBUH)" by Martin Lings, New Delhi, 1983, p.327.
Mualim-Ut-Tanzil		Commentary on the Holy Quran in Persian by Abu Muhammad al-Husain bin Masood bin al-Farra Baghavi. He belonged to Shafei school of Fiqh.
Dawwani		Muhammad bin Sa'd al-Siddiqi al-Dawwani.
Paraclete		Also spelt Pereiklitos, Periclyte, Periqlytos, an intercessor (John XIV:26 in Bible).
Herat		A town in north-west Afghanistan.
Shaikh Akbar		Shaikh Muhaiuddin ibn Ali al-Arabi, author of FUTUHAT MAKKIAH, FUSUS UL-HlKAM and others.
Imam Ghazali		Imam Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Abul Hamid al-Ghazali, author of many books including AHYA-UL-ULOOM.
Mu'tazela		The name of a theological school which introduced speculative dogmatism into Islam, a sect which believes that all good is from Allah and all bad from man.