THE 5 PILLARS OF ISLAM

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THE 5 PILLARS OF ISLAM
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• REVIEW QUESTIONS FROM LESSON 1
• WHAT ARE THE 5 PILLARS OF ISLAM?
• THE CREED,PRAYER,CHARITY, FASTING,PILGRIMMAGE
• WHAT DOES ISLAM MEAN?
• IT MEANS SURRENDER OR SUBMISSION. IT IS RELATED
  TO THE WORD SALAM (PEACE) AND MUSLIM.
• WHAT WAS THE NAME OF MUHAMMADS FIRST RELIGION?
• QURAYSH OR QURAISH
• WHAT ARE THE HADITHS?
• NARRATIVES ABOUT MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
• HOW OFTEN MUST A MUSLIM PRAY?
• 5 TIMES PER DAY

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• 1. THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH, AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS
  MESSENGER
• IT IS WHISPERED IN A BABIES EAR AFTER BIRTH
• ITS PURPOSE WAS TO REJECT THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF
  THE TRINITY
• THIS TOTALLY REJECTS THE IDEA THAT JESUS IS THE
  SON OF GOD AND PLACES HIM LOWER THAN MUHAMMAD.

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• 2. PRAYER- 5 TIMES PER DAY
• THE JEWS PRAYED AT DAWN, NOON AND DUSK. MUHAMMAD
  ADDED 2 MORE TIMES TO PRAY
• ONE MUST WASH BEFORE PRAYER WITH WATER OR SAND
• THE MIHRAB MARKS THE DIRECTION OF MECCA.
• MUSLIMS USED TO FACE JERUSALEM UNTIL MUHAMMAD
  CHANGED IT TO MECCA
• ONE STANDS, BOWS, PROSTRATES AND SITS DURING
  PRAYER
• FRIDAY PEOPLE PRAY IN PUBLIC AT MIDDAY THE OTHER
  DAYS IT IS PRIVATE
• MUSLIMS USED TO PRAY ON SATURDAYS LIKE THE JEWS
  UNTIL MUHAMMAD CHANGED IT TO FRIDAY

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• 3. CHARITY
• A MUSLIM GIVES 2.5 OF HIS INCOME TO AID THE POOR

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• 4. FASTING DURING RAMADAN
• FASTING FROM SUNRISE TO SUNDOWN THAT UNITES THE
  BELIEVER WITH THE POOR.
• RAMADAN IS THE 9TH MONTH ON THE MUSLIM CALENDAR
  WHEN MUHAMMAD RECEIVED HIS REVELATION.
• ONE MUST AVOID ALL FOOD, LIQUID, TOBACCO, AND
  SEX.

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• 5. PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA
• EVERYONE MUST VISIT MECCA ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIME
  UNLESS SICK.
• ONLY MUSLIMS CAN VISIT THE CITY OF MECCA.
• THIS PILGRIMAGE IS CALLED A HAJJ.
• THESE PILGRIMAGES BEGAN WAY BEFORE MUHAMMADS
  TIME (600AD). THEY WORSHIPED THE BLACK METEOR
  THAT FELL FROM THE SKY AND LANDED IN MECCA.
• MUHAMMAD CLAIMED THAT ADAM AND ABRAHAM VENERATED
  IT HMMN. JEWS BELIEVED IN ONE GOD AND WOULD
  NOT HAVE WORSHIPED ANYTHING CREATED. ONLY THE
  CREATOR IS TO BE WORSHIPED ACCORDING TO THE 1ST
  COMMANDMENT

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• 2 MILLION PEOPLE VISIT MECCA EACH YEAR
• MANY USED TO DIE WHILE VISITING MECCA BECAUSE OF
  THE HARSH WEATHER CONDITIONS.
• ALL MUST REFRAIN FROM SEX, VIOLENCE AND HUNTING.
• ONE MUST FIRST WASH BEFORE THEY WALK AROUND THE
  KABAH COUNTERCLOCKWISE 7 TIMES.
• THEY KISS OR SALUTE THE BLACK METEORITE IN THE
  KABAH.
• THEY WALK AROUND TO SYMBOLIZE HAGARS SEARCH FOR
  WATER.
• THE 10TH DAY THEY THROW 7 STONES AT A PILLAR
• THE MEN SHAVE THEIR HEADS AND THE WOMEN CUT THEIR
  NAILS TO SIGNIFY NEWNESS.

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• MUHAMMADS SONS DIED SO HE HAD NO SUCCESSOR
• ABU BAKR HIS FRIEND WAS IN CHARGE OF PRAYER AND
  BECAME THE FIRST CALIPH
• ABU DIED 2 YEARS LATER AND UMAR, THE 2ND CALIPH,
  AND UTHMAN . THEY WERE BOTH ASSASSINATED.
• HIS SON-IN-LAW ALI BECAME THE 4TH CALIPH. HE WAS
  ASSASSINATED. POWER NOW BELONGED TO HIS
  ENEMIES(661AD)
• SHIITE AND SUNNI FACTIONS BEGAN
• DIVISION AND BLOODSHED AND UNCLEAR LEADERSHIP IN
  ISLAM HAS REMAINED AND ISLAM STRUGGLED ALONG. THE
  SHIITES ONLY ACKNOWLDGE THE 4TH CALIPH, ALI.

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• WITHIN 100 YEARS AFTER MUHAMMAD DIED ISLAM WAS
  SPREADING RAPIDLY.
• FINALLY THEY WERE STOPPED FROM TAKING OVER EUROPE
  BY CHARLEMAGNES GRANDFATHER, CHARLES MARTEL IN
  732 AD
• ISLAM RULED SPAIN FOR 700 YEARS AND CHRISTIANS,
  JEWS AND MUSLIMS LIVED SIDE BY SIDE.
• IN 750 AD ISLAM WAS CONTROLLED FROM BAGHDAD, THEN
  LATER TO EGYPT.
• IN 1453 ISLAM CAPTURED THE CHRISTIAN CITY OF
  CONSTANTINOPLE. THIS BECAME THE CENTER OF THE
  OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND MUSLIM WORLD.
• THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ENDED IN 1921
• Stretch Break