HANIF

Hanif

Ḥanīf refers to one who maintained the pure monothestic beliefs of the patriarch Ibrahim. More specifically, in Islamic thought, they are the people who, during the period known as the Pre-Islamic period or Age of Ignorance, were seen to have rejected idolatry and retained some or all of the tenets of the religion of Abraham which was "submission to God" in its purest form.

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