or or , also spelled //, plural , is an Arabic word () meaning "letter", "epistle", "treatise", or "message". It may refer to: Literary genre , a summary of religious prescriptions in Islamic jurisprudence , treatise composed during the month of Ramadan by the Da'i al-Mutlaq (spiritual leader) in Tayyibi Isma'ilism Writings or Treatise of Rights, a work attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin () or The Golden Treatise, a work on medicine attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (765–818) (al-Shafiʽi book), a seminal work on (Islamic jurisprudence) by Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 820) , a travelogue by Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century) (Ibn Abi Zayd), a book on Maliki by Ibn Abi Zayd (10th century) or the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopedic collection of philosophical treatises (10th century) or The Epistle of Forgiveness, a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033 , a Sufi text by al-Qushayri (11th century) or the Epistles of Wisdom, a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters in Druze tradition (11th century) ("The Treatise of Fādil ibn Nātiq"), better known as Theologus Autodidactus, a theological novel written by Ibn al-Nafis between 1268 and 1277 , a (exegesis of the Quran) by Said Nursî written between the 1910s and the 1950s Media , Arabic weekly cultural magazine for literature, science, and art, published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953 Al-Resalah Satellite TV, an Arabic Islamic television channel , the original-language title of the Arabic film The Message (1976 film) (newspaper), a conservative daily newspaper in Iran Risala Weekly, a weekly Islamic magazine published since 1983 in Kozhikode, India Places Ar-Risala, a populated place in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq Resālat, another name for Qaleh Khan, North Khorasan, a village in Iran Resalat (district), a neighborhood located in the eastern part of Tehran, Iran Resalat Expressway, the former name of Qasem Soleimani Expressway, an east-west expressway in Tehran, Iran Risala Bazar or Risala Road, commercial area in Hyderabad, India Organizations Al-Resalah Party, a Jordanian political party Resala Charity Organization, a non-profit organization based in Egypt See also The "message" of Allah to mankind revealed via "messengers"; see Risala, Mughal-era term for a cavalry unit commanded by a Risaldar in the Indian and Pakistan armies ar:الرسالة