Jahiliyyah
- philhoraia
- Apr 25, 2024
- 2 min read
The word Jahiliyyah occurs some four times in quran.
S 3:154 Then he sent down upon you after the grief security--drowsiness covering a band of you and a band whose souls distressed them, thinking of Allah other than the truth. The thought of the Jahiliyyah, saying: Do we have anything from the affair? Say: The affair, all of it, is Lah’s. They hide in themselves what they do not reveal to you. They say: If we had something from the affair we would not have been killed here. Say: Had you been in your houses those whom killing was written upon would have gone out to their beds. And that Allah might test what is in your chests and that he might purge what is in your hearts. And Allah is learned in that in the chests.
S 5:50 So is it the judgment of the Jahiliyyah they seek? And who is better than Allah in judgment for people who are certain?
S 33:33 And stay in your houses and do not dress up as the dressing up of the first jahiliyyah. And perform salat and give the zakat and obey Allah and his messenger. Allah only wants to remove rijs from you, household, and to purify you with purification.
The first Jahiliyyah?
S 48:26 When he had put zeal in the hearts of those who had disbelieved, the zeal of the Jahiliyyah. Then Allah sent down his shekhinah upon his messenger and upon the believers and compelled them to the word of taqwa and they had more right to it and were more deserving of it. And Allah was learned in everything.
Definitions:
Relative noun (nisba) composed of جَاهِل (jāhil, “ignorant”) + ـِيَّة (-iyya).
Noun[edit]
جَاهِلِيَّة • (jāhiliyya) f
(Can we date this quote?), الإيجي, كتاب المواقف: […] لو أوجب الحكم للكل كما ذهبتم إليه لزم كون الكل عالما جاهلا معا إذا قام العلم بجزء منه وقام الجهل بآخر لا يقال هذا أي قيام العلم بجزء مع قيام الجهل بجزء آخر تقدير محال لتضادهما أي لتضاد العلم والجهل باعتبار تضاد حكميهما أعني العالمية والجاهلية فإذا قام العلم بجزء لم يجز قيام الجهل بجزء آخر وإلا كان الكل عالما وجاهلا معا […] (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(derogatory) (with ال (al-, “the”)) pre-Islamic Arabia (conceived as an era of moral and religious ignorance) جاهلية - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
As Abraham and Ishmael were supposedly in Arabia before the founder of Islam's birth, were all Arabs ignorant of Islam? If the former, 'prophets', were Muslims, presuming that they preached, wasn't there Islam in Arabia? What about the rest of the world? Was there a knowledge of Islam everywhere but in Arabia, considering Musa, Isa, etc., supposedly Muslims?
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