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What are the weird ones called in Islam?

So I was talking to my friend, who is a Muslim, and he referenced something from the Qur'an. He said something to the effect that Allah loves those that are strange. However there was a word for those who are strange in Arabic. I hope someone can help me out on this. Thanks to anyone who helps me out!

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  • 9 years ago
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    you are so lucky!!!! im arabic girl:P....lol ok we call them "ghuraba"(strangers).

    The Prophet (saw) said "Islaam began as something strange and it will revert to how it began as something strange. So glad tidings of Paradise (1) to the strangers"

    The people asked, "Who are they, O Messenger of Allaah?" He answered, "Those who are pious and righteous when the people have become evil." (Ahmad, ibn Hibban and others, sahih due to supporting evidences, see Badr al-Badr's footnotes to Abu Bakr al-Ajari, Kitaab al-Ghurabaa (Kuwait: Dar al-Khulata li-Kitaab al-Islaami, 1983) pp.16-18)

    In another narration, after the Prophet (saw) gave the good tidings to the strangers and he was asked who they were, he answered,

    "A small group of pious people among a large group of evil people. Those who disobey them [disobey the pious people] are more than those who obey them". [Ahmad, at-Tabarani, and others. After a lengthy discussion al-Awdah concludes that this hadith is hasan see Salman al-Awdah, Al-Ghuraba al-Awaloon, al-Damam: Dar ibn al-Jawzi, 1989, pp.37-39)

    There is no question that Islaam has become something strange today. Those who are truly sticking to the Qur'aan, the sunnah of the Prophet (saw) and the practices of the best generations are few indeed in comparison to the vast number of Muslims that exist.

  • 9 years ago

    There is a hadith (saying of the Prophet Muhammad saws) that talks about Muslims being perceived as being strange, because people didn't understand them, but they continue to follow their religion, even when they are the only person in that town who follows it, so the people think they are strange. And he complimented those people for their steadfastness.

  • 9 years ago

    Followers of Louis Farrakhan, or those so Called Nation Of Islam Clowns with those Bowties.

  • 9 years ago

    i dont know what your friend is referring to. but Allah S.W.T loves those who repent, who forgive, you are pious, patient and loves Him S.W.T

  • varc
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    poor people, they r better then the rich ones.

    Source(s): muslim
  • 9 years ago

    jew

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