{
 "id": "concept/hama",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "hama",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الهامة",
  "en": "al-Hāma (Vengeful Owl)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الهامة: اعتقادهم أن روح القتيل تخرج هامة تصيح على قبره «اسقوني اسقوني» حتى يدرك ثأره؛ نقضها الإسلام.",
  "en": "Al-Hāma: the belief that a slain man’s spirit becomes an owl crying ‘give me to drink’ until avenged — Islam negated it."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "belief",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الهامة: زعمهم أن روح القتيل تخرج من رأسه طائراً يصيح «اسقوني» حتى يدرك ثأره؛ نقضها الإسلام مع الطيرة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "كان من عقائد أهل الجاهلية أن المقتول إذا لم يُدرك ثأره خرجت من قبره هامة — وهي طائر يشبه البومة — تصيح «اسقوني اسقوني» أي اسقوني دم قاتلي {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nفأبطلها الإسلام جملةً مع سائر خرافات الطيرة والعدوى {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كانوا يظنون أن روح القتيل تصير طائراً يطلب الثأر، فأبطل الإسلام هذا الاعتقاد."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/hama",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Hama: their belief that a slain man's spirit leaves his head as a bird crying \"Give me drink\" until his vengeance is taken; Islam abolished it along with the tiyara."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Among the beliefs of the Jahiliyya was that the murdered man, if his vengeance was not taken, a hama issued from his grave — a bird like an owl — crying \"Give me drink, give me drink\", meaning \"give me my killer's blood to drink\" {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nIslam abolished it wholesale, with the rest of the superstitions of bird-omens and contagion {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "They thought a murdered man's spirit became a bird seeking revenge; Islam annulled this belief."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/hama",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/azlam",
  "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"
 }
}