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The Relics of Muhammad are a series of objects venerated in Islam that are associated with Muhammad. Islam has had a long history of relic veneration, especially of veneration of relics attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [1] There exists historical evidence that some of the earliest Muslims practiced the veneration of relics, and the ...
Muhammad's ascent into the Heavens, a journey known as the Mi'raj, as depicted in a copy of the Bostan of Saadi, 1514. An image from the Houghton Shahnameh (Metropolitan Museum of Art), dated 1530 - 1535. A miraj image, reflecting the new, Safavid convention of depicting Muhammad veiled, dated 1539 - 1543.
It has been used as recently as the 17th century to stamp documents. [1] The seal is a rectangular piece of red agate, about 1 cm (½") in length, [citation needed] inscribed with محمد رسول الله (i.e., Allāh "God" in the first line, rasūl "messenger" in the second line and Muḥammad at the bottom similarly as shown in the above ...
v. t. e. Stamp duty is a tax that is levied on single property purchases or documents (including, historically, the majority of legal documents such as cheques, receipts, military commissions, marriage licences and land transactions). A physical revenue stamp had to be attached to or impressed upon the document to show that stamp duty had been ...
An 1898 £1 revenue stamp of Western Australia Revenue stamps on smuggled tobacco seized by the British tax authorities.. A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things.
Seal of the Prophets (Arabic: خاتم النبيين, romanized: khātam an-nabīyīn or khātim an-nabīyīn; or Arabic: خاتم الأنبياء, romanized: khātam al-anbiyā’ or khātim al-anbiyā) is a title used in the Qur'an and by Muslims to designate the Islamic prophet Muhammad as the last of the prophets sent by God.
The Hajj (Arabic: حَجّ) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, [7] the holiest city for Muslims.Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence.
Map of Pakistan showing the provinces. Pakistan first issued revenue stamps when it became independent in 1947 and continues to issue revenues to this day. In addition to national issues, the provinces of Balochistan, North West Frontier, Punjab, Sindh, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir, West Pakistan and the capital Islamabad also have or had their own stamps.