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NOT NEEDED YET RE - islam extra duties and festivals (Duties and festivals)

- - - - Mentioned in Qur'an
        
        Therefore fasting is obeying Allah
      - Following the example of Muhammad
    - - It was during Ramadan - the ninth month of the Islamic calendar was revealed to Muhammad
    - - Abstain from food and drink
      - Get up before sunrise to eat and drink enough to get them through to sunset
      - Extra prayers and readings from the Qur'an after evening meal
      - Not smoke or copulate
    - - Allows them to empathise with those who go hungry, the less fortunate, and may inspires them to pay charity or invite others to share evening meal with them
      - Allah gives them strength to overcome hunger
      - Reminds them that Allah first gave the Qur'an during this month
      - Cleanses the soul, and practices self restraint from material possessions
        
        Muhammad said 'All sins are forgiven for those who fast'
    - - Health reasons
        
        Pregnant women
        
        Mothers nursing babies
        
        Children
        
        Those who are ill
        
        Women who are on their periods
    - - The night in which the verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad
        
        (NOT special revelation!!!)
  - - - Golden Rule : 'None of you truly believe until he wishes for his brothers what he wishes for himself' Prophet Muhammad
    - - Response to Qur'an instruction 'Whatever you give should be for ... the needy and travlellers. God is well aware of whatever good you do'
        
        Later worked out to be 2.5% by Muslims scholars
    - - Only Muslims with savings greater than a certain figure are required to give Zakah
      - Zakah can be donated directly to a charity or put into a collection box in the mosque to be distributed among the poor
    - - In Shi'a Islam
      - Refers to the excess income or earnings that a Shi'a Muslim makes
        
        Instead of spoils of war as it used to mean
    - - Prayer should make Muslims feel cocncern for others
        
        Zakah puts this into action
      - Giving Zakah is a sign of a true Muslim
  - - - God told the prophet Ibrahim to take his wife Hajira and son Isma'il on a journey to Arabia
      - Having run out of water, Hajira prayed to God and a source of water called the Zamzam sprung up
      - When Ibrahim returned, he was commanded to build the Ka'aba as a shrine dedicated to Allah where worship would take place
      - Muhammad restored the Ka'aba to its original purpose when people began to commit idolatry at the Kaaba
    - - Change clothes to two white clothes, enter state of Ihram
        
        Shows equality
      - Circle the Ka'aba seven times (Tawaf)
      - Take a drink from Zamzam
        
        In remembemberance of Hajira's search for water, and shows Muslims' dependence on Allah
    - - Ka'aba
        
        Building in the centre of the grand mosque in Makkah, shaped like a black cube
      - Mina
        
        A location visited on Hajj where pillars represting Iblis (the Devil) are stoned
      - Arafat
        
        Mountain where Muhammad gave his final sermon
        
        This is where the Day of Judgement will take place
      - Muzdalifah
        
        Place on Hajj where pilgrims hold a night prayer and rest after their praying on Mount Arafat
    - - Sins are cleansed by the journey
        
        Hadiths : 'He will return as if he were born anew'
      - Everyone is treated as an equal
        
        Sense of unity
      - Shows self-discipline and fulfils a religious duty
        
        Brings Muslims closer to God
  - - - There is disagreement over what Muhammad said on Jihad, so views on acceptable conflict are different
      - Acceptable conditions
        
        To protect Muslims and Islam, or Muslim areas
        
        If an enemy breaks a promise
        
        If all toher ways of stopping a war have failed
        
        If declared by a religious leader
        
        To help those without freedom of worship
  - - - Festival of sacrifice which lasts for three days and takes place at the end of the Hajj
      - It reminds Muslims of Alah asking Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismael
        
        Proved his faith and submission to Allah, who provided a sheep in his sons place
        
        Encouraged to make their own sacrifices and remember Allah's importance and centrality in their fatih
      - In the UK
        
        Animal sacrifice is not possible
        
        Muslims need to arrange for an animal to be sacrificed for them by a halal butcher
    - - The celebration at the end of Ramadan, marking the ending of fasting
      - Families and friends comes together to hold parties and eat together, wearing new clothes and decorating their houses
      - Thanking Allah for giving Muslims the ability and willpower to fast
      - It is a time to ask for forgiveness and practise empathy for those who are not as fortunate - many pay Zakah at this time
      - In the UK
        
        Usually just a day, taken off
    - - Shi'a Muslims
        
        Commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn in battle
        
        Day of mourning
        
        Celebrated by
        
        Plays about Husayn's death
        
        Some may choose to whip themselves to remember his martyrdom
      - Sunni Muslims
        
        Day of repentance for sins
        
        Celebrated by
        
        Some may fast
        
        Commemorate the prophet Nuhb's being able to leave the Ark after the flood and Musa leading his people out of Egypt