Five Pillars of Islam

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Five Pillars of Islam Allah Prays for Poor,
Hungry people in Mecca!
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Geography Overview

• Unit of Study
• Middle East
• Country
• Saudi Arabia
• Cities
• Mecca and Medina

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• The Story of Muhammad (as understood my Mr. P)
• While escaping it all in a local cave, Muhammad
  was told to recite the word of God (Allah) from
  an angel named Gabriel. This ability would make
  him a prophet, or messenger of god. Upon his
  return home, as you can imagine, many thought he
  was crazy. The idea of a single God, or
  monotheism, was defiant of the accepted belief by
  neighboring tribes and leaders that there were
  many gods (polytheism). These tribes believed in
  worshiping idols that represented the gods, some
  leaders even sold the idols in Mecca. Muhammad
  fled to Medina.
• Still, by leading through positive example,
  slowly he gained followers. Eventually Islam
  would spread throughout the Arabian peninsula and
  throughout most of the middle east. He returned
  to Meeca, which is a holy city today. His
  revelations of the word of Allah were recorded in
  the Quran (holybook of Islam). Today, Islam is
  the second largest religion in the world. There
  are 1.200 billion muslims in the world according
  to, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations).

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Five Pillar Introduction

• After Muhammads death companions desired to
  maintain an Islamic community.
• Muhammads companions recorded all of his
  revelations into Koran (Quran), his life
  practices in the Sunna (Sunnah-The Haddith
  interpreted)
• Sunna and Koran provide rules and daily life
  practices for all Muslims to live by
• Most basic rules of the Sunna and Koran are in
  the Five Pillars

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Pillar 1 Allah, Profession of Faith

• There is only one God (Allah) and Muhammad is his
  Prophet

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Pillar 2 Prays

• States number of times a Muslims should pray.
• Five times dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset,
  and dark

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Pillar 3 Poor, Almsgiving (Zakat)

• Islam recognizes that material things are
  important
• So, 2½ of a Muslims annual income goes to the
  poor. (40,0001,000 a year)

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Pillar 4 Hungry People, Ramadan

• From Sunrise to Sunset no food or drinks during
  the holy month of Ramadan.
• Ramadan is from September 1, 2008- September 29,
  2008.

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Pillar 5 In Mecca, Pilgrimage (hajj)

• Those Muslims who are physically and economically
  able
• Must at one time during their lifetime make a
  pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Daily Life of Muslims

• Both the Quran and Sunna cover all aspects of
  muslim life from diet, marriage, divorce,
  business contracts even how to clean your
  teeth!!!
• Muslims may not drink alcohol, eat pork or
  gamble.
• Some Characterize life as a struggle to resist
  evil temptations
• The Quran prohibits women to marry non-muslims

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Homework Example

• Dear Jamal,
• One day my husband was home working on a new
  shield, and I was cooking dinner. When it was
  time to pray, I kneeled on my mat and started to
  bow, but still my husbands pounding hammer. What
  should I do?
• -Prayer Disturbed
• Dear Prayer disturbed,
• I think you should make sure your
  husband prays or he may make a habit of not
  praying. If he continues not to pray, inform a
  holyman.
• -Jamal

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