Hubs

Posted on 04/03/2012 by marina

HUBS حبس
Any bequest for pious purposes. A term used in Shi’ah law for waqf. Anything devoted to the service of God. (See Baillie’s Imameca Code, p. 227.)

Based on Hughes, Dictionary of Islam

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