Definition of "fitnah" [fitnah]

• Antagonism towards early Muslims (noun)
• Any threat to the health of an Islamic state (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The word fitnah that we commonly understand as meaning "trial" or "tribulation" had a meaning to the Arabs before the dawn of Islam."
• "Mujahid and others said that the word fitnah here means disbelief, meaning, "your disbelief is worse than our killing them.""
• "Tetapi Silbi dan Subhat menabur fitnah akan asal usul Iriam."