Fitnah

Any affliction which may cause man to go astray and to lose his faith in spiritual values; test, trial, confusion, civil war, oppression

Fitnah

Fitnah has been used in the Quran in two meanings. It refers, firstly, to persecution, to a situation in which the believers are harassed and intimidated because of their religious convictions. Secondly, it refers to the state of affairs wherein the object of obedience is other than the One True God
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