concept

Baraka

Beliefs & concepts

Blessing-force or sacred abundance in Islamic and related speech. Not blessing as the spoken word-act alone, and not mana as Oceanic power.

Also known as Barakah

Islam

  • Baraka appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly names baraka and calls places, nights, and revelation mubārak — blessed. Islamic blessing-force speech in that revelation, not blessing as the generic word-act already walked and not mana as Oceanic power.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).