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The Five Pillars

This Rock Volume 18, Number 2   February 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   God Made It. We Can’t Change It. By Mary Beth Kremski   Live by the Sea and You Will See God By Peter Kreeft   Pope Benedict Speaks to Muslims By Matthew E. Bunson   Islam in a Nutshell   The Five Pillars   Pope Benedict XVI on Nostra Aetate and Islam   Quo Vadis, Canterbury? The Plight of the Anglican Church By Dwight Longenecker   Does the Watch Tower Society Speak for God? By Joel Peters   Damascus Road How We Caught the Roman Flu By Paul and Anise Yarbrough   By the Book Judge Not? By Jim Blackburn   Truth be Told A True Christian Conquest By Matthew E. Bunson   Up a Notch Elementary Logic and the Beginning of Life By Patrick Beeman   Classic Apologetics Freedom in Truth By Oliver Barres   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Preview (pdf; 3MB)    Subscribe    Permissions

There are five essentials duties every Muslim must perform. They are called the Five Pillars:

1. The daily recitation of the profession of the Muslim faith
2. Ritual worship five times a day facing in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, the cradle of Islam
3. Almsgiving
4. Fasting from dawn to dusk during the holy month of Ramadan, the time when the revelation of the Qur’an to Mohammed is said to have begun
5. Making at least one pilgrimage (called the hajj) to Mecca