Purpose
This is a piece of paper on which deep prayers and words are written on, it's then folded up real small and placed in a capsule or wrapped in plastic (preferred) then that is wrapped in a piece of cloth, which that is worn around the neck... the string has to be of black-nylon (blessings work best on it)... some people wear it skin tight, which isn't too clever coz it can choke you if pulled. The reason why it is skin tight is simply because they've been wearing it since childhood, the Taveez (which it's called, well at least in Urdu anyway) is not supposed to be taken off, even when in the shower, hence the reason people wrap the paper in plastic first so the paper is left intact. The main purpose of the Taveez is for blessing and PROTECTION. Protection from things like you know, curses from people (not like swear words, but like hexes...although it can protect from swear words) and the evil eye. As The Words of God are powerful.
Meaning
On the paper, the (19) circles along both sides, have 19 of some of the 99 Beautiful names of Allah written in them (One name in each circle)... To Him belong the most Beautiful of Names... (There are actually more than 99 names but the 99 collected are sacred/the greatest. The 4 circles in each corner are the most Beautiful/Powerful...
[Top Right] (Ya) Allah - (O) Allah > Allah means...well it really can't be any more translated, it's the supreme name of Allah... but if you want the language translation of how an Arab would understand it, it says TheOne.
[Top Left] (Ya) Rahmaan - (O) Compassionate/Most Gracious
[Bottom Right] (Ya) Raheem - (O) Most Merciful
[Bottom Left] (Ya) Kareem - (O) Generous
Everything you need to know here:
Names of God in the Qur'an - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (The 100th name will be revealed my Mahdi..... in your spare time, look into the Mahdi, Dajjal and The Second Coming of Isa (AS)... all related to one-another, proper interesting - trust)
The big box at the top reads something like: "Taveez of the Beautiful 5 Shareefs" (Shareef means Peaceful/Noble Person) ...I think that this is referring to The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Imam Ali, Imam Hassan, Imam Hussain, Fatimah (RA) (Daughter of the Holy Prophet)...
Yet the 5 could be Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) (closest companion of the Holy Prophet), and other close people, etc.
The piece of writing under the big box, is just a short prayer.
The writing in each finger and thumb are also short prayers.
The 4x4 grid below the fingers contain 16 Beautiful names of Allah respectively.
The 3x3 grid below that are numbers, hard to explain coz 1) I don't know too much myself and 2) I can only tell you: they represent words... for example a very common one,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Bismillāh Ar-raḥmān Ar-raḥīm
"In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful"
Basmala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abjad numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Easy stuff, read the first two/three paragraphs, done.
And finally the big box at the bottom (This is in Urdu), says something like: Taveez made at Taveez maker shop in Hyderābād, Pakistan... etc.
And the little line just above it is like a slogan: 'Taveez makers for all types'...etc.
DONE. My Mama helped me out with the Urdu, the rest of the paper is in Arabic, so I can figure that out myself with a lil research.
Man this took me time, sorry about the lateness. I just hope you learned a lil. BTW I'm wearing a Taveez...=D.....
F**K THE EYE ON THE BACK OF THE DOLLAR BILL
Peace Bro.
P.S. The hand just symbolises something like, when people are blessed they are touched with the right hand by the person reading the blessing, gets me... or it just symbolises something like that, I dunno..... and about the number thing, to be honest, numbers shouldn't represent any of that, as numbers can't represent Allah's names, it kinda ain't right, I learned this from a top scholar...
Oh and next time you see people with '786' in their user name like, 786Gangsta or Omar786AK, they are most likely Muslim, they know that it stands for Bismillāh Ar-raḥmān Ar-raḥīm, but they don't know
why...they blindly follow the system.
Props to Muslim Soldier at immortaltechnique.co.uk for the info.
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