Five Pillars of Islam

A normal day can turn into a tragedy and change millions of lives forever. That one day for Muslim across the United States was September 11, 2001. On this day, three thousand lives were taken by nineteen terrorist associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. Those nineteen militants hijacked four full airplanes. Three out of the four planes crashed into heavily populated areas. The fourth plane was taken back by the passengers and was crashed into an empty Pennsylvania field. Ever…

Hajj Pilgrimage Description: The religion of Islam is Global, discursive and rich and monolithic in its origin. The religion of Islam is diverse and the cultural practices varieties from place to place. The Islam culture is mainly based on “Quran” and “Sunnah” and is also derived from human experiences and learning. The most remarkable notion of the Islamic culture is that they staunchly believe in the existence of truth and the dematerialization of falsehood. They perform scads of festivals,…

Muhammad created a new religion called Islam. Muhammad was a prophet that was believed in ancient times to speak to an angel named gabriel. He kept getting messages from the angel, and all of those messages were put into a book called the Qur’an (The holy book). At first when he started teaching this new religion to the Arabs, there were some problems. Some got upset when they had to stop worshipping their god. Later people started to accept this new religion. Islam spread due to military…

allegiance to God and believing that Muhammad is his messenger. This pillar is what solely determines if you are a Muslim. The second pillar of Islam is a prayer towards god, which is done five times a day. The times for prayer are sunrise, noon, mid-day, sun down, and early night. The third pillar of Islam is charity. Charity is divided into two groups, giving money to support the teaching of Islam, or helping anyone in need. The fourth pillar is a completion of Ramadan, the holy month where…

religions all follow the same fundamental morals and guidelines that are quite homogeneous. The largest and most popular religion today is Christianity with the second largest being Islam. Both of these religions are extremely widespread and have a great impact on the lives of its believers…

that would be the beginning of a religious movement that will later be known as Islam. Islam means “submission”, referring to the submission that the followers will have towards Allah. The members of this movement were known as Muslims. Once Muslims began developing into their own culture, they started setting strict rules and regulations into place that one must follow inorder to share the same belief system as the Islams. Muslims had six major beliefs that their culture was based off of. The…

Shiite and Sunni Islam Ever since the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D. there has been a divide in the Islam religion. Many debated on who the rightful successor was, causing a rivalry. This rivalry has created two separate branches of Islam: the Sunnis and the Shiites. Of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, eighty-five to ninety percent of them are Sunnis. Sunnis believe that the rightful successor to Muhammad is Abu Bakr. Since none of Muhammad’s sons survived into adulthood,…

Islam, is a religion of a group of people referred to as the Muslims the religion is regarded as being revealed through Muhammad as the prophet of Allah. When it comes to theological analysis of Islam, the most important profession of faith to any Muslim is. There are various references in the Islam religion the most important is the Qur’an that means to read. This is a book that is considered as the holy book and as the overall word of God showing Gods revelation to man as reveled to the…

The Hajj was seen as an important pilgrimage and religious practice that helped people build upon their skills. The Hajj was one of the Five Pillars which were obligated practices used in the Islamic faith. In order to do the Hajj, you would have to travel to Mecca, the most holy city of the Muslims. Realistically not everyone lived in Mecca, Muslims were all around the world during the early time such as Africa and spread throughout Europe. In order to travel to Mecca, you would need to travel…

Islam and Christianity These religions originally started out, Christianity was founded by Paul and Jesus in the 1st century when Jesus was born. Than though all the miracles and popularity, Jesus has caused Christianity to be formed throughout time. Islam started in the 7th century when Muhammad was alive. It said that Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel. The angel gave him messages and Muhammad gave these messages. When Muhammad was noticed Muhammad died 10 years after . Then when he…