Five Pillars of Islam

“Three Pillars: Confucius, Jesus, and Mohammed”, is a documentary film from the series Religion: A World History by Films Media Group that was produced in 1998. Professor Mark W. Muesse, Ph.D. who is a Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College is the narrator of the documentary. Professor Muesse provides insight into the historical contexts and individual lives of Confucius, Jesus, and Mohammed and how their philosophies became religions of today. The professor talks about which…

should be noted is the key role that religion plays is Arab culture. More specifically, the religion of Islam affects many of the customs in those countries. The first thing that sets these cultures apart is religion. In these Arabian cultures, Islamic religion is the main religion, and many of the laws that were given to their prophet, Muhammad, are used to govern their society. The word Islam comes from Arabic, which means Salema. This means peace, purity, submission, and obedience, with…

Islamic Worldview This is a summary of an Islamic worldview. It will focus on a Muslim’s beliefs and practices. The Quran and Hadith are their sacred book dictated by Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel from all powerful God, Allah. They believe the Quran is a guide for life in which they follow matters of doctrine, social structure, and laws. The Question of Origin There were six stages of Creation, but there is some confusion whether stages mean days or another period of time. According to the…

Sharia law has two key units. The first section mainly focuses on worship. There are five pillars of Islam, the first is Affirmation. Gould made it clear that in Sharia Law, there is no good except for Allah and Muhammad is his emissary (2008). The next is prayer, which must be done five times a day. Subsequently is fasts, which means no eating. This is done during Ramadan. Zakat follows, zakat means giving charity to the less fortunate…

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all part of the category of Abrahamic religions and relate to one another like sister religions that share the same parent ideology. Judaism is the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and was founded in 1800 BCE which is when the first legendary patriarch began with Abraham at the head. Next would come Christianity which was born out of the Judaism religion for even its founder, Jesus of Nazareth, was a part of. Jesus came and gave his message and his…

Religion has brought together as many people as its divided due to various belief systems and practices. Two of the main western religions, Islam and Christianity, are generally described as very different despite the abundance of similarities between the two. To demonstrate the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity, passages about Moses’ journey and Martin Luther’s teachings, will be analyzed. Moses’ journey is described in the primary text, Readings of the Quran by…

Golomb points out “that the God of Israel is indeed the true God” (Golomb). Authors Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton state in the preface of their book entitled, “The Body of Faith, Israel and the Church”: Christianity and Judaism, along with Islam, by their own word seek to reach the same God but each takes its own path. All three invoke the same authority Abraham and Sarah represented by the same Scripture, all three worship the one and only God, concurring that the God of which the one…

Communication and Business Manner Dimensions in China Communication in China, given the status of the country being somewhat of a collectivists school of thought, will differ greatly in comparison to its American counterpart. For starters, China, like other Far East or South East Asian nations, is considered a high-context culture. According to Hall (1976), as cited by Kim, Pan, and Park (1998), high-context culture is one in which people are deeply involved with each other. In other words,…

life, their customs and how we can all make connections to Catholicism. As a society, we all have the duty to accept each other, such as respecting each other's religions, in order to have a better quality of life. All Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam celebrate their truth in their own way and we should all learn to embrace the fact that we are similar in some way. The Declaration on the relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, NOSTRA AETATE, explains “One is the community of all…

word of peace (salaam). The arguments that the Holy book of Islam, the Quran, contain passages that promote violence are false. While the Quran does address defensive fighting in order to protect yourself, “To those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight) for they have been oppressed, and verily Allah is well able to assist them.” (6:22:29), we as practitioners of Islam cannot be fully embraced by the community of Islam as true believers by committing violence with the express…