Five Families

The fifth pillar of Islam is to make a pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, at least once in one's lifetime. This pillar is obligatory for every Muslim, male or female, provided that he/she is physically and financially able to do so. Prerequisites for performing the Hajj are to be a Muslim, to be an adult or mature enough, and to have the ability to afford the journey. The reward for the Hajj is that Allah will forgive all your sins since they day that you were born. Hajj is the best…

Why is going to hospitals are always kind of a bad experience? I do not think going to hospitals frequently is a good idea. Is it good to know we have a problem? All hospitals have the same images: a smell of alcohol, doctors and nurses wearing almost the same uniform, and babies crying. It is a kind of sacrifice to go to hospitals and feel like you are in trouble because of your health condition. Also, although we have to visit doctor’s office constantly, I do not like it. Because of that, I…

time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the chinese apartments because there were a whole bunch of chinese people living there. The…

Chapter I Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Eugen Berthold Freidrich known as Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in an upper-middle class family in Augsburg. The director of paper mill, Brecht’s father believed in Catholicism. The interesting fact is that his parents had a mixed Catholic-Protestant marriage and Brecht was mainly brought up by his mother’s Protestant faith. He attended elementary school and grammar school in Augsburg and his patriotism soon changed into pacifism in 1914 when…

Michael Zomber is a famous antique collector of antique weaponry for a business and also as a hobby. He has been collecting and studying antique weaponry for over forty years with a unique focus on Japanese weapons. His father was able to escape being imprisoned in 1939 from the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. His parents were immigrants from Germany and he was born in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of California in Los Angelos, California, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in…

bet and the hunt for the ghost coon from Rainie's perspective. When I woke up that morning, I had no way of knowing the events that were going to unfold would lead me to the worse day of my life. Nobody in this whole parts seems to like me or my family. I haven’t done nothing to them but they seem to just have it in for me. There is this rich kid named Billy who has everything. His grandpa owns the local store and they think that they are so much better than us. No other kid in these…

Faith and prayer as parts of the five pillars of Islam. The third among the five pillars of Islam is Zakat (act of alms giving). C. Zakat 1. It is compulsory for every Muslim to perform Zakat. 2. It is two and half percent from all the Muslims saving and it is performed every year. 3. It gives all Muslims the opportunity to share from their little or large wealth with the people in need. Shahada (Faith), Salah (Prayer), and Zakat (Alms giving) are three out of the five pillars of Islam. Ramadan…

Community in the Islamic faith is deeply integrated into the religion. For Islam you must follow the five pillars of Islam, in which each pillar is a compulsory act. These five pillars of Islam revolve around ummah. Ummah is an Arabic word that means community. The pillars are the salat, sawm, zakat, hajj, and the shahada. Salat, the first pillar is for the prayers, in this religion prayers are performed 5 times a day. There are specific times that one must pray while praying everyone in the…

Introduction: Fasting is one of the five Pillars of Faith. Fasting in Arabic means sawm. The word sawm means, “to abstain”. Fasting is abstaining from everything forbidden during fasting from the break of dawn to sunset. Drinking, eating and are prohibited during this time. Before a person starts their fast they must have the intention do so, if not Allah does not accept the fast. The intention does not need to be said verbally, but must be with the sincerity of heart and mind.…

You might be wondering why you even need to read this. After all, you got accepted into Northeastern, a top school that only accepts some ridiculously low percentage of all the people who apply. It’s obvious that you are way too intelligent to be taking English advice from anyone. People who need help with something as easy as English are those who didn’t pass their English classes with A’s like you did when you were in high school. After all, college is only supposed to be a little harder than…