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Ummah (indefinite), or Al-Ummah (definite): Ummah means "community", Al-Ummah means "the community". However, contrary to what a non-Arabic speaker might suppose, Ummah Al-Muhmini is "the community of the believers". In that case, because Ummah is the first term of a construct, it is definite.

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