{
 "id": "concept/anwa",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "anwa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأنواء",
  "en": "al-Anwāʾ (Star Rains)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأنواء: نسبة المطر للنجوم «مطرنا بنوء كذا» بدل الله؛ عدّها النبي كفراً بالله وكفراً بالنعمة.",
  "en": "Al-Anwāʾ: attributing rain to star-settings — the Prophet counted it ingratitude to God."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "belief",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sharh-sahih-muslim-al-nawawi"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الأنواء: نسبة المطر إلى طلوع النجوم وغروبها «مطرنا بنوء كذا»؛ عدّها الإسلام كفراً بالنعمة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "كانوا يقولون إذا نزل المطر: «مطرنا بنوء كذا» ينسبون الغيث إلى نجم من النجوم؛ فجاء حديث النبي: من قال مطرنا بفضل الله ورحمته فذاك مؤمن بي كافر بالكوكب، ومن قال مطرنا بنوء كذا فذاك كافر بي مؤمن بالكوكب {cite:sharh-sahih-muslim-al-nawawi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كانوا يشكرون النجوم على المطر لا الله، فبيّن النبي أن الغيث من فضل الله وحده."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anwa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Anwa': attributing rain to the rising and setting of stars — \"we have been rained on by such-and-such a star\" — which Islam counted as ingratitude for the blessing."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "When rain fell they would say \"we have been rained on by such-and-such a star\", attributing the rain to one of the stars. Then came the Prophet's hadith: whoever says \"we were rained on by God's favour and mercy\" is a believer in Me and an unbeliever in the star; whoever says \"we were rained on by such-and-such a star\" is an unbeliever in Me and a believer in the star {cite:sharh-sahih-muslim-al-nawawi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "They used to thank the stars for rain instead of God; the Prophet showed that rain is God's favour alone."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anwa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/azlam",
  "concept/hama",
  "concept/hums",
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms",
  "concept/kahana",
  "concept/maysar",
  "concept/nasi",
  "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}