Islamic Practices

• "The truly good are those who ... keep up the prayer and pay the prescribed alms"
• Ten Obligatory Acts

  1. Salah
  2. Sawm
  3. Zakat
  4. Hajj
  5. Khums (20% taxation)
  6. Jihad
  7. Amr-bil-maroof (Encouraging good actions)
  8. Nahi anil munkar (Discouraging evil actions)
  9. Tawalla (Association with good people)
  10. Tabarra (Disassociation with evil people)
• "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger"
• "And Ali is the friend of God"
• "I did not create humans except to worship me"
• "Turn your face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque"
• "Call on me and I will answer you"
• "Remember God often so that you may prosper"
• "Prostrate and draw near to God"
• "Prayer with the congregation is 27 times more powerful than prayer performed by oneself" (Hadith)
• "Hurry toward the reminder of God"
• "The whole earth has been made a place of worship" (Hadith)
• "Pray in your houses - do not make them like graveyards" (Hadith)
• "Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may be mindful of God"
• "Fast until nightfall"
• "If one of you is ill, or on a journey, then on other days"
• "It was in the month of Ramadan that the Qur'an was revealed ... so any one of you who sees in that month should fast"
• "To enter paradise be steadfast in prayer"
• "Know that whatever you acquire, a fifth of it is for Allah, for the Messenger, for the near relative, and the orphans, the needy"
• "Alms are meant only for the poor, the needy"
• "He does not pay its Zakat, then ... his wealth will be presented to him in the shape of a bald-headed poisonous male snake with two poisonous glands in its mouth"
• "Spend from that which we have provided for you"
• "The one who looks after and works for a widow or poor person is like a warrior fighting for God’s cause"
• "Whatever good you do, Allah is aware of it"
• "Pilgrimage to the House of God is a duty owed to God by people who are able to undertake it"
• "It is no offence to circulate between [Safa and Marwa]"
• Ihram - white seamless robes
• Sa'i - running seven times between Safa and Marwah
• Tawaf - circling the Ka'aba seven times anti-clockwsie
• Mount Arafat - Mount of Mercy
• Mina - collect and throw stones at three pillars
• Eid al Adha - sacrifice an animal as a symbolic act of obedience to Allah
• "They will come from the farthest locations"
• "Focal point for the people, and a safe sanctuary"
• "Those who have been attacked are permitted to take up arms because they have been wronged"
• "Fight in God's cause those who fight you"
• "Fight them until there is no more persecution"
• "‘Maintaining good ties with kinship bring love between relatives, and increase wealth and prolongs life" (Hadith)
• "O my son, I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice you"
• "Who can be better in religion than one who ... follows the way of Abraham, the true in faith?"