Transcript Pillars of Islam

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Pillar…..
anything tall and thin like the
shape of a column or tower
There are pillars in Italy…
The villa of Hadrian, at Tivoli, Italy, constructed between ad 118 and 134, was the largest Roman villa ever built.
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There are pillars in England …
Stonehenge, a circular arrangement of large stones near Salisbury, England,
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There are ancient pillars …
The Parthenon, stands on the Acropolis high above Athens, Greece.
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There are modern pillars …
Apartment building in Spain, built 1907
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There are pillars in nature…
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
Twelve Apostles, Victoria, Australia
There are pillars in space…
Towering pillars of gas and dust in an interstellar cloud known as the Eagle Nebula.
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and……
there are pillars of Islam
But unlike pillars in nature, space, or buildings…
you cannot
see or touch
the pillars of Islam
The pillars of Islam are basic rules
that every Muslim must follow…
One of the jobs of a pillar is to
support or hold something up…
The pillars of Islam support or hold up
our religion, Islam.
If we do not follow the pillars of Islam,
it could cause us to be unsuccessful Muslims,
or in some cases, to not be Muslims at all.
How many pillars of Islam are
there?
There are five pillars of Islam…
Shahadah
Salaat
Zakaah
Sawmu
Ramadan
Hajj
What are the pillars of Islam?
The Shahadah
is the first pillar of Islam
Muslims testify (say):
‫ال اله اال هللا‬
‫محد رسول هللا‬
”There is no true God but Allaah and Muhammad is the true
Messenger of Allaah.”
This testimony is the key to Paradise*
*The Testimony of Tawheed
What Does It Mean?
Dr. Saleh As Saleh/9/4/2004
Salaat: Prayer
There are five required (wajib)
prayers that Muslims must pray
each day…..
Muslims pray:
Salatul Fajr, at dawn
Salatul Dhuhr, at midday
Salatul Asr, in the late afternoon
Salatul Maghrib, at sunset
Salatul ‘Isha, in the evening
Zakah is a pillar of Islam
Zakah is food or money that
we give to those in need
Sawm in Ramadan
is a pillar of Islam…
Sawm means fast,
to give up food or
drink during daylight hours.
Ramadan is the ninth month
of the Islamic calendar.
Sawm in Ramadan is fasting for the
whole month of Ramadan
Hajj
is a pillar of Islam…
Hajj is a trip to the Kabah that every Muslim
must make at least once in his life,
if he is able to.
There are five pillars of Islam…
Shahadah
Salaat
Zakaah
Fasting in
Ramadan
Hajj
As Muslims, we must practice all five
pillars of Islam.
as best as we can.
If Islam were a building......
The pillars of Islam
would hold it up
so that it could not fall
insha Allah….
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