Jahl

Jahl

Jahiliyyah (Arabic: جاهلية‎ ǧāhiliyyah/jāhilīyah "ignorance") is an Islamic concept of "ignorance of divine guidance" or "the state of ignorance of the guidance from God" or "Days of Ignorance" referring to the condition in which Arabs found themselves in pre-Islamic Arabia, i.e. prior to the revelation of the Quran to Muhammad. The root of the term jahiliyyah is the I-form verb jahala "to be ignorant or stupid, to act stupidly". By extension, it has come to refer to the state of anyone not following Islam and the Quran.

Read more about Jahl:  In The Quran, Historical Concept, Muslim Scholarship, Jahili Poetry, Jahiliyya in Contemporary Society