Hikmah

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Hikmah is an Arabic word meaning wisdom. Hikmah is important to Islamic philosophy and entered the Islamic world through Greek cultural diffusion in the 8th and 9th centuries.

In Islam, Allah is viewed as All-Wise (Qur'an 45:37) and messengers are given scripture and wisdom (Qur'an 2:129). Muslims believe that those who reject Islam are rejecting wisdom. "The parable of those who reject Faith is as if one were to shout Like a goat-herd, to things that listen to nothing but calls and cries: Deaf, dumb, and blind, they are void of wisdom." (Qur'an 2:171).

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• The meaning and concept of philosophy in Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr