What's the difference between imam and occultation?

Imam


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Imaum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The best lactogenic antibody response was observed when IMam X IM X 2 route of immunization was used with live BRV as the antigen.
  • (2) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
  • (3) Mohammed Siddique, a 60-year-old imam, and his 24-year-old son, Mohammed Waqar, punished the boy for perceived shortcomings during religious lessons at the Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia mosque, in Birmingham.
  • (4) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
  • (5) His remarks were translated by sheikh Yahya Safi, executive member of the Australian National Imams Council.
  • (6) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
  • (7) But imams such as Suleiman and Mahmoud Abdel Samir, who wrote a PhD tackling this claim, say it is unlikely Muhammad advocated it.
  • (8) In October 2013, in a sign of how bad things had become, the imam of Yarmouk’s largest mosque issued a fatwa that permitted people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys.
  • (9) (Some Muslims in Egypt claim FGM is an Islamic requirement, though imams who have researched the issue say it has no root in the religion, and point out it is practised far less in other countries with Muslim majorities.)
  • (10) Councils call themselves courts and the presiding imams are judges.
  • (11) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
  • (12) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
  • (13) The election of Shady Alsuleiman, our first Australian-born imam, as ANIC’s president is an important resetting point.” Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more Fierravanti-Wells had herself called for a stronger statement from the grand mufti.
  • (14) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
  • (15) A day earlier, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of the Islamic Republic's most venerable imams, treated the weekly televised gathering at Tehran University stadium to a stern anti-American diatribe.
  • (16) The only moment of respite in a morning of violence was when the mosque's imam called the faithful to prayer.
  • (17) This week’s successful targeting of Haji Imam is another step forward in the struggle against Isis and its brand of nihilistic jihad.
  • (18) But now the imam he normally uses to approve his meat is sick with a suspected case of dengue fever.
  • (19) He is elected by the Australian National Imams Council, which brings together about 200 largely Sunni imams.
  • (20) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

Occultation


Definition:

  • (n.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.
  • (n.) Fig.: The state of being occult.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
  • (2) The present report details an unusual patient with "occult temporal arteritis" who sustained abrupt monocular visual loss and subsequent ipsilateral ophthalmoplegia involving all functions of the oculomotor nerve.
  • (3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
  • (4) Lateral cervical cystic metastases arising from occult thyroid carcinoma and their ultrasonic differentiation from true cysts are discussed.
  • (5) The procedure may prove useful for detection of occult infections and may provide a new diagnostic approach in fever of unknown origin.
  • (6) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
  • (7) While occult breast carcinoma was relatively common in our series (two of 17 patients), the ability to detect the tumor with mammography was disappointing (one of two patients).
  • (8) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
  • (9) In order to estimate the diagnostic validity of chemical fecal occult blood tests, i.e.
  • (10) Arm exercise with myocardial scintigraphy may be an effective method of detecting occult ischemia in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
  • (11) ), the diagnostic significance (occult carcinoma?, parenchymal asymmetry?, benign or malignant microcalcification?)
  • (12) The importance of recognising occult CO exposure and of treating symptomatic patients promptly cannot be overemphasized.
  • (13) In contrast to the immunologically-detected fecal occult blood test, the sensitivity and specificity for CR cancers are surprisingly high, the percentage values in using the Shams test having been found to be 100% and 93.1%, respectively (Shamsuddin).
  • (14) Accordingly, exacerbation of atherogenesis may accompany release of platelet-associated growth factors (or mitogens) occurring in association with occult, repetitive thrombosis and thrombolysis.
  • (15) It was found that combining faecal occult blood testing with the health check did not reduce attendance at the health check--43.5% of patients attended when the Haemoccult test kit was offered by the nurse at the health check, 43.6% attended when a test kit was included with the invitation to attend the health check and 42.9% attended when the health check invitation was posted on its own.
  • (16) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
  • (17) Because cavernous malformations are often angiographically occult and do not have a characteristic appearance on computed tomography (CT), they are seldom recognized preoperatively and may be missed if the surgical specimen is not carefully reviewed.
  • (18) Taken together, these data demonstrate that dental radiography is not efficacious for the purpose of detecting occult lesions.
  • (19) A forensic autopsy series of 519 women more than 14 years old was studied for prevalence of benign, atypical, and occult malignant breast lesions.
  • (20) and metoclopramide stimulation have considerable value in identifying hyperprolactinaemic patients with prolactin-secreting adenomas, particularly those which are radiologically occult.