bid'a

Mr. Lyons denies that "Islam is inherently hostile to innovation" but fails to note that the very word for "heresy" in Arabic is bid'a, literally "innovation."

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

Is the economic underdevelopment that even the thirteen trillion dollars received by the Arab and Muslim states as oil (and gas) revenues, since 1973 alone, due to the hatred of bid'a, the inshallah-fatalism, and the despotic control of all economic activity by the governments of the region (itself a reflection of that Islam-promoted despotism) the responsibility of non-existent Jews, or of Islam, Islam, Islam?

Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami sheikyermami 2010

He was not someone who could come up with a new idea, no matter how tiny, because bid'a, innovation, is despised in Islam.

Jihad Monitor 2010

And she was just one of 249 participants in this effort, where inshallah-fatalism and hatred of bid'a, you can be sure, never were mentioned, not even in the quietest of whispers.

David Horowitz Freedom Center 2010

The OPEC trillions have allowed states that were permanently mired in poverty - Islam discourages economic development, both in its hatred of bid'a (innovation) and in its inshallah-fatalism (why work hard, if Allah giveth, and Allah, on the same whim, taketh away) -- to have the financial wherewithal to buy trillions of dollars worth of weapons.

Jihad Watch Hugh 2010

Scholars regarded them as bid'a, an unlawful innovation, and it took the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt in

Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009

Scholars regarded them as bid'a, an unlawful innovation, and it took the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt in

Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009

To stand up against the fear that these people would label us people of bid'a or apostates if we dared question their stultifying and suffocating "interpretations" of Islam.

Gross Out! 2008