بِدْعَةٌ

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بِدْعَةٌ An innovation; a novelty; anything originated, invented, or innovated; anything made, done, produced, caused to be or exist, or brought into existence, newly, for the first time, it not having been or existed before, and not after the similitude of anything pre-existing: a dissentient state or condition: a subst. from اِبْتِدَاعٌ, like رِفْعَةٌ from اِرْتِفَاعٌ, and خِلْفَةٌ from اِخْتِلَافٌ: subsequently and generally applied to an addition, or an impairment, in religion: or a novelty, or an innovation, in religion, after the completion [thereof]: or an opinion declining, or swerving, from the right way, and an action, innovated after [the time of] the Prophet: or an action at variance with the Sunneh: [generally a heretical innovation; or a new heresy: but] there is a بدعة not disapproved, termed بِدْعَةٌ مُبَاحَةٌ [an allowed, or allowable, innovation]; which is that whereof the goodness is attested by some principle in the law, or which is required to prevent some cause of evil; such as the Khaleefeh's seclusion of himself from the promiscuous classes of the people: there are two kinds of بدعة; namely بِدْعَةٌ هُدًى [an innovation of a right kind], and بِدْعَةٌ ضَلَالٍ [an innovation of an erroneous kind].

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