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The Five Pillars Of Islam
1,253 wordsBy definition, Islam is the worship of the One and the Only true god Allah. It is not solely the religion preached by all of the prophets that Allah has blessed mankind with. Starting from Adam and including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah, John the Baptist and Jesus, through to the final Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them all). All of the Prophets I have mentioned are referred to in the Quran and other Islamic literature by their A...
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Explain Why A Muslim Takes Explain Why A Muslim Hajj
495 wordsDescribe And Explain Why A Muslim Takes Describe And Explain Why A Muslim Takes Part In Hajj, And What This Involves Muslims go on Hajj to cleanse and purify themselves; not just physically but mentally. Another reason is because it? s a test Allah has set to show their devotion to Him. Hajj helps bring Muslims closer to Allah and also each other. Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam; God? ordered? it to be done in the Q? an. Muslims believe that they gain forgiveness from Allah on Hajj. To go on H...
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Pilgrimage To Mecca Closer To God
4,308 wordsA Study of the Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land And the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca Submitted by: Prepared for: SSC 231 Cultural Conflict and Human Solidarity University College Utrecht May 2001 Introduction A French folklorist and ethnographer, Arnold Van Gennep (1908 - 1960) gave us the first clues about how ancient and tribal societies conceptualized and symbolized the transitions men have to make between states a statuses. He demonstrated that all rites of passage are marked by three pha...
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