Dahrīyah

Dahrīyah, in Islām, the unbelievers who contend that the course of time (Arabic: dahr) is all that governs their existence. They were so called because of a reference to them in the Qurʾān, in which they are repudiated for saying, “There is no other than our present life; we die and we live and nothing but the course of time destroys us” (45:24). The Dahrīyah are portrayed in Islāmic theological literature as naturalists and materialists...