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What are the 5 pillars?

If you, like me, were wondering just what the “5 Pillars of Islam” were, I finally came across them in an article on line, http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/printenc/engencyclopedia/id/592527.html , Islam in Russia.

The Muslim cult is based on the five basic requirements ("pillars of faith"): 1. Practicing the faith - pronouncing the shahadah (declaration of faith): "There is no God but Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah". 2. The five daily prayers (namaz or salah/salat). 3. The dawn-to-sunset fast during the month of Ramadan (uraza/roza or sawm). 4. Obligatory "purifying" alms (zakat/zakah). 5. The pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj).
Editor's note: Conspicuously absent from the list: JIHAD.


Michael "Miserable Failure" Moore

December 09, 2003 in F.Y.I. |

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