irja

dhuber commented on the word irja

Via the Wordnik blog:

"Irja translates literally as “postponing,” and was a “theological principle put forward by some Muslim scholars” in the first century of Islam, as the result of a major civil war being fought during that time.

The proponents of irja — known as murjia, or “postponers” — asserted that the “burning question of who is a true Muslim should be ‘postponed’ until the afterlife.” In other words, true faith was something that could only be judged by God and not other humans. In the end, however, the murjia didn’t have enough influence in the Muslim world."

Here: http://blog.wordnik.com/word-buzz-wednesday-bean-to-bar-digital-dementia-schlonged#.dpuf

December 30, 2015