What are Islamic saints or hermits called?
"them apart from both mainstream Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Kharijites were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach to Takfir, whereby they declared other Muslims to be unbelievers and therefore deemed them worthy of death. Islamic fundamentalists, or at least ""reformist"" fundamentalists, believe that Islam is based on the Qur'an, Hadith and Sunnah and ""criticize the tradition, the commentaries, popular religious practices (maraboutism, the cult of saints), deviations, and superstitions. They aim to return to the founding texts."" Examples of individuals who adhere to this tendency are the 18th-century Shah Waliullah in India and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab in the"
"Hieronymites The Order of Saint Jerome or Hieronymites (, abbreviated O.S.H.) is a Catholic enclosed religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks living according to the Rule of Saint Augustine, though the inspiration and model of their lives is the 5th-century hermit and biblical scholar Saint Jerome. The principal group with this name was founded in Spain in the 14th century. Their religious habit is a white tunic with a brown, hooded scapular and a brown mantle. For liturgical services, they wear a brown cowl. Established near Toledo, Spain, the Order developed from a spontaneous"
"the term saint is often used to translate this idea from many world religions. The Jewish ""hasid"" or ""tsaddiq"", the Islamic ""Mu'min"", the Zoroastrian ""fravashi"", the Hindu ""rsi"" or ""guru,"" the Buddhist ""arahant"" or ""bodhisattva,"" the Daoist ""shengren,"" the Shinto ""kami"" and others have all been referred to as saints."" Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodou, Trinidad Orisha-Shango, Brazilian Umbanda, Candomblé, and other similar syncretist religions adopted the Catholic saints, or at least the images of the saints, and applied their own spirits/deities to them. They are worshiped in churches (where they appear as saints) and in religious festivals, where they appear"
"literature, the term ""hermit"" is also used loosely for any Christian living a secluded prayer-focused life, and sometimes interchangeably with anchorite/anchoress, recluse and ""solitary"". Other religions, for example, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam (Sufism), and Taoism, also have hermits in the sense of individuals living an ascetic form of life. In modern colloquial usage, ""hermit"" denotes anyone living apart from the rest of society, or simply participating in fewer social events, for any reason. The word ""hermit"" comes from the Latin ""ĕrēmīta"", the latinisation of the Greek ἐρημίτης (""erēmitēs""), ""of the desert"", which in turn comes from ἔρημος (""erēmos""), signifying ""desert"", ""uninhabited"","
"Thomas the Hermit Saint Thomas the Hermit is a Saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church, he is also known as ""Saint Thomas the Anchorite"", ""Saint Thomas of Shenshif"" or simply as ""Abba Thomas""[(Coptic word meaning Father) (Αw-ba)Sahidic (Αw-va)Bohairic]. Saint Thomas was born in Upper Egypt, in a small village known as ""Shenshif"". He is revered by the Coptic Orthodox Church, since he is one of the early Anchorites, or Desert Fathers. Little is commonly known about him. Early Life Although little is known about his early life we do know where he was born, and the broad region of inheritance"
"900) and the ""Creed of Nasafi"" (c. 1000), a belief in the existence and miracles of saints was presented as ""a requirement"" for being an orthodox Muslim believer. Aside from the Sufis, the preeminent saints in traditional Islamic piety are the Companions of Muhammad, their Successors, and the third generation after the Prophet, often called ""the Successors of the Successors"". Additionally, the prophets of Islam are also believed to be saints by definition, although they are rarely referred to as such, in order to prevent confusion between them and ordinary saints; as the prophets are exalted by Muslims as the"
"of shrines and public property as unacceptable. Holiest sites in Sufi Islam Most holy sites in Sufism are shrines dedicated to various Sufi Saints - spiritually elevated ascetics from various mystical orders within Islam. Shrines are widely scattered throughout the Islamic world. Pilgrimages to them are known as Ziyarat. Traditional annual commemorations of the saint's death held at his shrine are known as ""Urs"" In several countries, the local shrine is a focal point of the community, with several localities named specifically for the local saint. In some parts of the Islamic world, such as in Pakistan, these festivals are"
"Hindu saints There is no formal canonization process in Hinduism, but over time many men and women have reached the status of saints among their followers and among Hindus in general. Hindu saints have often renounced the world, and are variously called gurus, sadhus, rishis, swamis, and other names. Many people conflate the terms ""saint"" and """"sant"""", because of their similar meanings. The term ""sant"" is a Sanskrit word ""which differs significantly from the false cognate, 'saint'..."" Traditionally, ""sant"" referred to devotional Bhakti poet-saints of two groups: Vaishnava and a group that is referred to as ""nirguna bhakti"". Some Hindu"
"changes from year to year. Ihram is the name given to the special spiritual state in which pilgrims wear two white sheets of seamless cloth and abstain from certain actions. The Hajj (sometimes spelt Hadj, Hadji or Haj also in English) is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Abraham. During Hajj, pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform"
"Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (abbreviation ""CTHM"") (, '; Servant of the Two Noble Sanctuaries or Protector of the Two Holy Cities, is a royal style that has been used by many Islamic rulers, including the Ayyubids, the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt, the Ottoman Sultans, and in the modern age, Saudi Arabian kings. The title refers to the ruler taking the responsibility of guarding and maintaining the two holiest mosques in Islam: Al-Haram Mosque (, ""The Sacred Mosque"") in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque () in Medina, both of which are in the"
"their deaths. This explains another common name for Hindu saints: godmen. Islam has had a rich history of veneration of saints (often called ""wali"", which literally means ""Friend [of God]""), which has declined in some parts of the Islamic world in the twentieth century due to the influence of the various streams of Salafism. In Sunni Islam, the veneration of saints became a very common form of devotion early on, and saints came to be defined in the eighth-century as a group of ""special people chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles."""
"Holiest sites in Sufi Islam Most holy sites in Sufism are shrines dedicated to various Sufi Saints - spiritually elevated ascetics from various mystical orders within Islam. Shrines are widely scattered throughout the Islamic world. Pilgrimages to them are known as Ziyarat. Traditional annual commemorations of the saint's death held at his shrine are known as ""Urs"" In several countries, the local shrine is a focal point of the community, with several localities named specifically for the local saint. In some parts of the Islamic world, such as in Pakistan, these festivals are multi-day events and even draw members of"
"Hermit A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives in seclusion from society, usually for religious reasons. Hermits are a part of several sects of Christianity, and the concept is found in other religions as well. In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament (i.e., the 40 years wandering in the desert that was meant to bring about a change of heart). In the Christian tradition the eremitic life is an early form of monastic living"
"Matthew the Hermit Saint Matthew the Hermit (Arabic: القديس مار متى الناسك; ""Mor Mattai"") was a 4th-century Christian priest. He is venerated as a saint in the Oriental Orthodox Church and his feast day is 18 September. Matthew was born in the early 4th century in a village north of Amida, into a Christian family. He was educated at the Monastery of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus for seven years, after which he became a monk at the Monastery of Zuqnin and was ordained as a priest. Upon the ascension of Emperor Julian the Apostate in 361, and subsequent persecution"
"hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, prayer, self-awareness and personal development on physical and mental levels; without the distractions of contact with human society, sex, or the need to maintain socially acceptable standards of cleanliness, dress or communication. The ascetic discipline can also include a simplified diet and/or manual labor as a means of support. Notes Sources Hermit A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives in seclusion from society, usually for religious reasons. Hermits are a part of several sects of Christianity, and the concept is found in other religions as well. In Christianity, the"
"Sayyid Sayyid (also spelt Syed, Saiyed, Seyit, Seyd, Said, Sayed, Sayyed, Saiyid, Seyed and Seyyed) ( , ; meaning ""Mister""; plural ) is an honorific title denoting people ( for females) accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his cousin Imam Ali through his grandsons, Imam Hasan ibn Ali and Imam Husayn ibn Ali (combined Hasnain), sons of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and son-in-law Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib). Female ""sayyids"" are given the titles ""Sayyida"", ""Syeda"", ""Alawiyah"" or ""Sharifa"". In some regions of the Islamic world, such as in India, the descendants of Muhammad are given the title"
"the """"beatas de San Jerónimo"""", as they began to be called. Their continued observance of their rules and sanctity led to their spread in various places throughout the Iberian Peninsula and in New Spain. In 1585 in Mexico City, the convent of San Jerónimo y Santa Paula was founded. Seventeenth-century Hieronymite Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was that convent's most famous member, known in her own era as ""the Tenth Muse."" Attribution: Hieronymites The Order of Saint Jerome or Hieronymites (, abbreviated O.S.H.) is a Catholic enclosed religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks"
"a cave in the mount of Shenshif. Stories Concerning Saint Thomas Monasteries and Churches There are multiple Churches dedicated to the beloved Saint: Thomas the Hermit Saint Thomas the Hermit is a Saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church, he is also known as ""Saint Thomas the Anchorite"", ""Saint Thomas of Shenshif"" or simply as ""Abba Thomas""[(Coptic word meaning Father) (Αw-ba)Sahidic (Αw-va)Bohairic]. Saint Thomas was born in Upper Egypt, in a small village known as ""Shenshif"". He is revered by the Coptic Orthodox Church, since he is one of the early Anchorites, or Desert Fathers. Little is commonly known about him."
"Maron Maron, also called Maroun or Maro, (, """"; ; ; ) was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Syriac Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. The religious community which grew from this movement are the modern Maronites. Saint Maron is often portrayed in a black monastic habit with a hanging stole, accompanied by a long crosier staffed by a globe surmounted with a cross. His feast day in the Maronite Church is February"
"particular living human beings. The power is known as Barakah, a transferable quality of personal blessedness and spiritual force said to lodge in certain individuals. Those whose claim to possess barakah can be substantiated—through performance of apparent miracles, exemplary human insight, or genealogical connection with a recognized possessor—are viewed as saints. These persons are known in the West as marabouts, a French transliteration of al murabitun (those who have made a religious retreat), and the benefits of their baraka are believed to accrue to those ordinary people who come in contact with them. The true Islamic way of saints became"
"Islamic world today, playing a vital role in the daily piety of vast portions of Muslim countries like Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Senegal, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco, as well as in countries with substantive Islamic populations like India, China, Russia, and the Balkans. Karamat In Sunni Islam, karamat ( ""karāmāt"", pl. of ""karāmah"", lit. generosity, high-mindedness) refers to supernatural wonders performed by Muslim saints. In the technical vocabulary of Islamic religious sciences, the singular form ""karama"" has a sense similar to ""charism"", a favor or spiritual gift freely bestowed by God. The marvels ascribed to Muslim saints"
"poet), saints were also distinguished cosmologically as regards their celestial function or standing. In Islam, however, the saints are represented in traditional texts as serving separate celestial functions, in a manner similar to the angels, and this is closely linked to the idea of a celestial hierarchy in which the various types of saints play different roles. A fundamental distinction was described in the ninth-century by al-Tirmidhi in his ""Sīrat al-awliyāʾ"" (""Lives of the Saints""), who distinguished between two principal varieties of saints: the ""walī ḥaḳḳ Allāh"", on the one hand, and the ""walī Allāh"" on the other. According to"
"Karamat In Sunni Islam, karamat ( ""karāmāt"", pl. of ""karāmah"", lit. generosity, high-mindedness) refers to supernatural wonders performed by Muslim saints. In the technical vocabulary of Islamic religious sciences, the singular form ""karama"" has a sense similar to ""charism"", a favor or spiritual gift freely bestowed by God. The marvels ascribed to Muslim saints have included supernatural physical actions, predictions of the future, and ""interpretation of the secrets of hearts"". Historically, a ""belief in the miracles of saints (""karāmāt al-awliyāʾ"", literally 'marvels of the friends [of God]')"" has been ""a requirement in Sunni Islam."" This is evident from the fact"
"influential and widely-spoken language in the Islamic world after Arabic, the general title for a saint or a spiritual master became ""pīr"" (, literally ""old [person]"", ""elder""). Although the ramifications of this phrase include the connotations of a general ""saint,"" it is often used to specifically signify a spiritual guide of some type. Amongst Indian Muslims, the title ""peer baba"" (पीर बाबा) is commonly used in Hindi to refer to Sufi masters or similarly honored saints. Additionally, saints are also sometimes referred to in the Persian or Urdu vernacular with ""Hazrat."" In Islamic mysticism, a ""pīr's"" role is to guide"
"Ifrit Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, efrite, ifreet, afreet, afrite and afrit (Arabic: ': , pl ': ) are supernatural creatures in some Middle Eastern stories. In Islamic culture, they are usually a powerful type of jinn or identified with death-spirits. The Ifrits are a class of infernal djinn and also held to be a death spirit drawn to the life-force (or blood) of a murdered victim seeking revenge on the murderer. As with ordinary djinn, an Ifrit may be either a believer or an unbeliever (good or evil) but it is most often depicted as an evil being; a"
"to observers like Dawood al-Shirian and Lee Kuan Yew, and has caused the Saudi interpretation (sometimes called ""petro-Islam"") to be perceived as the correct interpretation – or the ""gold standard"" of Islam – in many Muslims' minds. Salafis are often called Wahhabis, which they consider a derogatory term. Ahl-i Hadith is a religious movement that emerged in Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century. Adherents of Ahl-i-Hadith regard the Quran, sunnah, and hadith as the sole sources of religious authority and oppose everything introduced in Islam after the earliest times. In particular, they reject ""taqlid"" (following legal precedent) and favor ""ijtihad"""
"Termagant Termagant or Tervagant was the name given to a god which Christians believed Muslims worshipped. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen. In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman. European literature from the Middle Ages often referred to Muslims as pagans, with sobriquets such as ""the paynim foe"". These depictions represent Muslims worshipping Muhammad as a god along with various deities in the form of idols (cult images), ranging from Apollyon to Lucifer, but"
"the 14 most holy figures in Shia Islam. Yet, her brother Imam Ali al-Ridha gave her the title ""Masumeh"", which means infallible or sinless. In Shi'ism, women either become saints by their own merits or because they are the sisters, daughters, or wives of other saints. Fatima Masumeh is a saint because of her own holiness and wisdom. She is said to have been learned in various Islamic sciences and the teachings of Muhammad, and to have transmitted many hadiths from her family members. Fatima Masumeh is also a saint because of her closeness to her brother, the 8th Shi'i"
"Turkey, Senegal, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco, as well as in countries with substantive Islamic populations like India, China, Russia, and the Balkans. The general definition of the Muslim saint in classical texts is that he represents a ""[friend of God] marked by [special] divine favor ... [and] holiness"", being specifically ""chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles."" Moreover, the saint is also portrayed in traditional hagiographies as one who ""in some way ... acquires his Friend's, i.e. God's, good qualities, and therefore he possesses particular authority, forces, capacities"
"(hudud al-din), historically called ""da'wa"" in Arabic, is considered a sacred tenet because without his loyal Da'is the living imam would essentially be disconnected from his following. The Ismailis record several periods in which generations of Imams lived a clandestine lifestyle resulting from political rivalry, religious persecution, and often both. When the Imam of the Time's guidance cannot be delivered publicly his responsibilities are kept up through a staff of devotees acting intermediaries between the Imam and his followers. Ismaili literature traditionally refers to these periods of time as eras of concealment, or ""dawr al-satr"" in Arabic. The Imamat is"
"Khidr Khidr or al-Khidr ( ""al-Khiḍr""; also transcribed as al-Khadir, Khader/Khadr, Khidr, Khedher, Khizr, Khizir, Khyzer, Qeezr, Qhezr, Qhizyer, Qhezar, Khizar, Xızır, Hızır) is a name ascribed to a figure in the Quran as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, Khidr is described as a messenger, prophet, wali, slave and angel, who guards the sea, teaches secret knowledge and aids those in distress. The figure of al-Khidr has been syncretized over time with various other figures including but not limited to Sorūsh in Iran, Saint Sarkis the Warrior, Saint"
"""hadım"", ""eunuch"", in their subsequent careers), and several are considered as among the greatest Ottoman statesmen of the period. The post reached its height in the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent (1520–1566), when its holders became the steward of the charitable foundations and endowments (""vakifs"") designated for the upkeep of the two holy cities (""Haramayn"") of Islam, Mecca and Medina, and of over seventy large mosques. During this time, the holders of the office engaged in open rivalry with the Grand Viziers for control over state affairs. Soon after, however, through the influence of the women of the Imperial Harem,"
"after the names of respected Muslim personalities, such as imams, e.g. Turkish ('his Hadrat') in Islamic culture. This is similar to the French honorifics and , and Japanese honorific. The term was also loaned into Turkish and Bosnian as . Examples of used as a title are: Hazrat Muhammad, Hazrat Musa, Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Umar Farooq, Hazrat Uthman, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq, Hazrat Hajar (Hagar), Hazrat Isa. Hadrat , , or (Arabic: حَضْرَة Ḥadˤrah (sing.)/ حَضْرَات Ḥadˤrāt (pl.); Persian: pronounced or ) is an honorific Arabic title used to honour a person which literally denotes and translates to 'presence, appearance'."