MUK͟HADDARAH (مخدرة). A legal term for a woman in a state of purity. It is also used for a veiled woman, the word being derived from k͟hidr, a “curtain or veil.”
MUK͟HĀLAT̤AH (مخالطة). Lit. “Intermingling,” or mixing together. A term used for general intercourse, but specially applied to intercourse with those who are ceremonially unclean.
MULES. Arabic bag͟hl (بغل), pl. big͟hāl.
Muḥammad forbade the breeding of mules, for Ibn ʿAbbās says the three special injunctions which he received were (1) to perform the ablutions thoroughly, (2) not to take alms, (3) not to breed mules. (Mishkāt, book xvii. ch. ii.)
The flesh of a mule is unlawful. (Hidāyah, vol. iv. p. 74.)
They are not liable to zakāt. (Hidāyah, vol. i. p. 16.)
MULḤAQ (ملحق). Lit. “Joined.” A term used by the Ṣūfīs for the condition of the human soul when “it is absorbed into the essence of God.” (ʿAbdu ʾr-Razzāq’s Dictionary of Ṣūfī Terms.)
MULḤID (ملحد). An infidel. Lit. “One who has deviated, or turned aside from the truth.”
AL-MULK (الملك). Lit. “The Kingdom.” The title of the LXVIIth Sūrah of the Qurʾān in the first verse of which the word occurs: “Blessed is He in whose hand is the kingdom.”
MULLĀ (ملا). A Persian form used for the Arabic Maulawī, “a learned man, a scholar.”