Transcript New Material The Five Pillars of Islam

Homework due today
• From the text book, read chapter 10, section 2,
pages 269 – 271 stopping at Control Extends over
Three Continents define the following terms from the
reading in your notebook:
• Caliphs
Sufi
• Jihad (not in bold)
Abbasids
• “people of the book” (not in bold)
• Umayyads
• Sunni
• Shi’a
Homework due Thursday
• Correct any mistakes on your quiz. It will be checked
next class.
• Go through your notes and make sure you have all
of these assignments in your notebook.
• Tonight & Wednesday are catch up days
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The Five Pillars of Islam:
1. Faith – commitment to Allah
2. Prayer – 5 times a day facing Mecca
3. Alms – charity
4. Fasting – sacrifice
5. Pilgrimage
• The five pillars ensures Muslims practice their faith
while also serving their community.
• No priests or leaders, but there is a scholar that is well
informed about the teachings of Muhammad. He is
known as Ulama
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• Muslims believe Allah worked through the Angel
Gabriel and Gabriel revealed Allah’s intensions to
Muhammad.
• Muhammad’s followers were to memorize all of his
teachings. After Muhammad’s death, his followers
began to write down all of his revelations now known
as the Qur’an (sometimes written as Koran).
• Although Islam is in many countries and the Qur’an is
written Arabic. The reason for this was that it was
Muhammad’s language and it is meant to unite followers of
Islam.
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• Muhammad’s example is known as Sunna.
• Shari’a is the body of laws that governs Muslims
• Muslims believe that their God is the same as the Christian
& Jews. The difference is that Muslims believe Jesus was a
prophet. The Qur’an perfects the teachings of the Torah
and New Testament.
• Muslims refer to Jews & Christians as “the people of the
book” because of the similar teachings each groups
possesses.