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- - - - As in the other historical religions, everything in Islam centers on its religious Ultimate, God.
        
        God is immaterial and therefore invisible. For the Arabs this cast no doubt on his reality, for they never succumbed to the temptation—sorely reinforced by modern materialistic attitudes—
        
        to regard only the visible as the real; one of the tributes the Koran pays to Muhammad is that “he did not begrudge the Unseen.
  - - - mean more than
        holy war
        
        Holy war: struggle to
        defend Islam (BBC)
        
        a believer's internal struggle to live out the muslim faith as well as possible (BBC)
        
        the struggle to build a good muslim society (BBC)
  - - - Supreme
        
        eternal
        
        Omnipotent
        
        omniscient
        
        Always exist and will
        always exist
      - approach by praying and
        reciting the Qur'an
    - - Qur'an
    - - David
      - Jesus
      - Abraham
        
        Father of hte arab people as well as jewish people
        through his sons Isaac and Ishmael (BBC)
        
        Struggled to understand
        God (BBC)
- - - - Muslims emphasize that the Qur’an came through Muhammad, not from him. God alone is its author.
- - - - The first of the Five Pillars is Islam’s creed, or confession of faith known as the Shahadah (Smith,219-220)
        
        The second affirmation—that “Muhammad is God’s prophet”—registers the Muslim’s faith in the authenticity of Muhammad and in the validity of the book he transmitted
        
        At least once during his or her lifetime a Muslim must say the Shahadah correctly, slowly, thoughtfully, aloud, with full understanding and with heartfelt conviction (Smith,219-220)
        
        This is the ultimate answer to all questions.”
        
        Every religion contains professions that orient its adherents’ lives (Smith,219-220)
        
        “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is His Prophet.” (Smith,219-220)
        
        “There is no god but Allah.” There is no god but the God. More directly still, there is no God but God, for the word is not a common noun embracing a class of objects; it is a proper name designating a unique being and him only. (Smith,219-220)
      - The third pillar of Islam is charity
        (Smith, 221-222)
        
        Material things are important in life, but
        some people have more than others
        
        Islam is not concerned with
        this theoretical question.
        
        Those who have much should help lift the burden of those who are less fortunate
      - The second pillar of Islam is the canonical prayer, in which the Koran adjures the faithful to “be constant” (29:45). (Smith, 220)
        
        Muslims are admonished to be
        constant in prayer to keep their
        lives in perspective.
        
        One crucial event in Muhammad’s life was his renowned Night Journey to Heaven
        
        On a certain night in the month of Ramadan, he was spirited on a white steed to Jerusalem and through the seven heavens to the presence of God
        
        instructed him that Muslims were to pray fifty times each day.
        
        negotiated to 40, then thirty, then twenty, then 5
        
        When we ask, then, why Muslims pray,
        a partial answer is: in response to life’s
        natural impulse to give thanks
        for its existence.
        
        The deeper answer, however, is the one with which this paragraph opened: to keep life in perspective—
        
        to see it objectively, which involves acknowledging human creatureliness before its Creator.
        
        In practice this comes down to submitting one’s will to God’s (islam) as its rightful sovereign
      - The fourth pillar of Islam is the observance of
        Ramadan. (Smith, 222-223)
        
        Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calendar
        
        Islam’s holy month
        
        "during it Muhammad received his initial revelation and (ten years later) made his historic Hijrah (migration) from Mecca to Medina" (Smith. 222-223)
      - Islam’s fifth pillar is pilgrimage.
        
        Once during his or her lifetime every Muslim who is physically and economically in a position to do so is expected to journey to Mecca,
        
        God’s climactic revelation was first disclosed.
        
        The basic purpose of the pilgrimage is to heighten the pilgrim’s devotion to God and his revealed will, but the practice has fringe benefits as well.