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1. Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:57 JST Moon
   Can someone explain the Arabic word "takbir" to me?
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:52 JST LS

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     @cell @Moon "i'll come fix your faucet tomorrow, insyallah" ->> never comes
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:53 JST cell

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     @Moon i don't recall ever hearing about a phrase like this in arabic, sorry
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:54 JST cell

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     @Moon Assalamualaikum (and its hebrew counterpart, shalom aleichem) are often used as greetings, meaning "peace be upon you". the person being greeted has to return the greeting with walaikum salam (or in hebrew, aleichem shalom), which has similar meaning "upon you be peace"
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:54 JST Moon

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     @cell what's the phrase people use when they mean that nothing acan be done about something?
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:55 JST cell

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     @Moon it refers directly to the phrase Allahu Akbar (God is Great), uttered mostly during prayers
     another important phrase ﷽ (bismillah - in the name of god), done before doing prayers or other actions. it's important enough to get its own unicode code point (U+FDFD), and apparently in Pleroma it counts as a single character!
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:55 JST Moon

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     @cell I am working on a page on my personal wiki for useful arabic utterances
     
     so far I have Alhamdulillah and Mashallah
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:45:56 JST cell

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     @Moon ALLAHU AKBAR (you're supposed to utter that in response)
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:05:53 JST Moon

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     @cell @sim basically I just think the little phrases are fun to use, I don't mean any disrespect.
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   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:05:54 JST cell

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     @sim @Moon oh! that's also an interesting topic, as the prophets from Adam to Isa (Jesus) get alaihissalam (peace be upon him), for instance Prophet Isa (as), whereas Muhammad, being the last and most important prophet, gets sallahu alaihi wassalam (Blessings of God be upon him as well as peace), often abbeviated as "saw", so Prophet Muhammad (saw)
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_honorifics
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   • sim@shitposter.club's status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:05:55 JST sim

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     @cell @Moon Why do they say this every time they refer to their prophet though?
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:08:04 JST LS

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     @Moon @cell @sim well-meaning Christians: I don’t want to get this wrong and insult anyone
     IRL Muslims: if you say bismillah before drinking beer it’s ok
   • cell (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:11:54 JST cell

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     @lain @Moon @sim you've had some pretty interesting IRL Muslim experiences :nicesuspicious:
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:13:08 JST Moon

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     @lain @cell @sim
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 00:13:54 JST Moon

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     @lain @cell @sim sure, may be like a "I can make fun of my brother but you can't make fun of my brother" thing so just being safe.
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   • 御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 12:26:12 JST 御園はくい

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     @lain @Moon @cell @sim biirusmillah
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   • 御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 12:27:28 JST 御園はくい

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     @lain @cell @Moon God told him to go one day later instead and saved him from an earthquake that happened the next day
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