{"id":1185,"date":"2022-02-22T05:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2022-02-28T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T07:01:44","slug":"rub-el-hizb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/rub-el-hizb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rub el Hizb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/roub_el_hizb-Islamic-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3871\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rub el Hizb is a well-known character who has become linked with the Islamic faith. It&#8217;s a sign made up of two overlapping squares, one of which is flipped 90 degrees to form an eight-pointed star. In the center of both squares, there is also a circle. The Arabic word &#8216;Rub&#8217; means a quarter or one-fourth, while &#8216;Hizb&#8217; means a party or a group. It is used in Arabic calligraphy to indicate the end of a chapter and appears at the end of chapters in the Quran. The Quran is divided into sixty &#8216;Hizb,&#8217; or equal-length parts, which are divided further into &#8216;rub,&#8217; or quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several flags, emblems, and coats of arms, including those of Morocco, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, feature the Rub el Hizb symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rub el Hizb is a well-known character who has become linked with the Islamic faith. It&#8217;s a sign made up of two overlapping squares, one of which is flipped 90 degrees to form an eight-pointed star. In the center of both squares, there is also a circle. The Arabic word &#8216;Rub&#8217; means a quarter or &#8230; <a title=\"Rub el Hizb\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/rub-el-hizb-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Rub el Hizb\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}