Noun:

தொழுகையை முன் நின்று நடத்தும் இஸ்லாமியக் குரு,

imams தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

None

imams's Usage Examples:

Most mosques have endowed property, which is administered by a warden (nazir), who also appoints the imams and other officials.

The larger mosques have two imams: one is called (in Arabia and Egypt) the khatib, and he preaches the sermon on Fridays (the Moslem Sabbath); the other, the ratib, reads the Koran, and recites the five daily prayers, standing close to the mihrab, and leading the congregation, who repeat the prayers with him, and closely follow his postures.

The sultan, a descendant of those Yemenite imams who consolidated Arab power in Zanzibar and on the East African coast, and raised Oman to its position as the most powerful state in Arabia during the first half of the 19th century, resides at Muscat, where his palace directly faces the harbour, not far from the British residency.

There are Turkish primary and secondary schools in some of the towns; in the village mosques instruction in the Koran is given by the imams, but neither reading nor writing is taught.

The imams do not form a priestly sect; they generally have other occupations, such as teaching in a school or keeping a shop, and may at any time be dismissed by the warden, in which case they lose the title of imam.

For more than a century it was governed by five elected imams, who were chosen from the tribe of al-Azd and generally lived at Nizwa.

Among higher religions orthodox Islam has never had real priests, doing religious acts on behalf of others, though it has, like Protestant churches, leaders of public devotion (imams) and an important class of privileged religious teachers (`ulema).

The name of mandi is also given by the Shiite Mahommedans to the last of the imams of the house of `Ali.

above the valley, the fortress and palace of the imams, now replaced by the Turkish military hospital, the suburb of Bir el Azab with its scattered houses and gardens, the Jews' quarter and the village of Rauda, a few miles to the north in a fertile, irrigated plain which Niebuhr compares to that of Damascus.

They speak Turkish and profess to be Moslems, but have no mosques or imams.

We have the example of the village imams imported from Pakistan and Bangladesh in the British communities, who do not help to integrate.

Synonyms:

imaum, Muslim, leader, Moslem,

Antonyms:

sheep, inferior, employee, nonreligious person, follower,