The Fourth Pillar is Fasting – fasting throughout the month of Ramadan. The Fifth Pillar is Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if one is physically and financially able to afford it. By performing these works, a Muslim hopes that on judgment day the recorded good deeds will exceed the bad ones, thus being granted salvation by Allah. Although the following religions may have different methods in achieving the ultimate goal of salvation. Buddhism has the Eightfold Path to liberation (Fisher, 2014, pp. 145-146), Hinduism has the sixteen rites (Fisher, 2014, pp. 95-96) and Jainism has the Ethical Pillars (Fisher, 2014, pp. 123-128). The religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, are very similar in their perspective of achieving salvation. They believe that we are reborn again and again until we finally free ourselves from samsara, the wheel of birth and death. That through our good deeds and efforts can we achieve good Karma, thus allowing us to gain enlightenment and move thru the gradual process of freeing our
The Fourth Pillar is Fasting – fasting throughout the month of Ramadan. The Fifth Pillar is Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if one is physically and financially able to afford it. By performing these works, a Muslim hopes that on judgment day the recorded good deeds will exceed the bad ones, thus being granted salvation by Allah. Although the following religions may have different methods in achieving the ultimate goal of salvation. Buddhism has the Eightfold Path to liberation (Fisher, 2014, pp. 145-146), Hinduism has the sixteen rites (Fisher, 2014, pp. 95-96) and Jainism has the Ethical Pillars (Fisher, 2014, pp. 123-128). The religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, are very similar in their perspective of achieving salvation. They believe that we are reborn again and again until we finally free ourselves from samsara, the wheel of birth and death. That through our good deeds and efforts can we achieve good Karma, thus allowing us to gain enlightenment and move thru the gradual process of freeing our