Five Pillars of Islam
The central beliefs of Islam are: there is no other god except for the ultimate God Allah, making Islam a monotheistic religion. Followers of Islam must take full acceptance of God's commandments through the direction and knowledge of God's word. All Muslims are considered to be individuals who work hard toward educating themselves with the teachings of God from Islam's Holy Qur'an. Just like Christianity and Judaism, Islam also traces its ancestry back to Abraham. Islam religion also believes that Muhammad was a man who was a prophet that taught Gods work.
The central beliefs of Islam are reflected in the five pillars by reason of its followers making sacrifices in numerous ways for God. Believing in one God, and only one God, Daily prayer, fasting to cleans the body of sin so one can speak to God more clearly, donating a percentage of one's yearly earnings in order to help needy and poor, and making a journey to Mecca as other human prophets had done throughout time.
I believe the easiest of the Five Pillars to fulfill would be the first of the Five Pillars, the Shahadah "belief and witness". Even though I was raised to acknowledge other prophets such as Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary to be holy figures that one is able to speak to God through, I can also recognize and accept Muhammad as a prophet, another messenger of God. Growing up as a child and into adult hood, I felt there was no need to pray to God through prophets and that God could hear me better if I were to pray to him or her directly.
As time went on I felt that God should be the only one for whom I pray to, and that it would not be right to pray to any other. I do though believe that prophets speak to god directly on our behalf and will give God their personal intellect of human's monitored behavior on earth, and that God may base his or her overall decision on judgment day for each individual's fait based on his or her prophet's knowledge of certain human's positive or negative behavior.
Of the Five Pillars, I believe the fourth Pillar; the fasting during Ramadan would be most challenging for me. To deprive myself of food which I have tried many times in the past, seems to be one of the most difficult tasks an individual could endure. Food is what keeps our bodies alive and functioning and to go without food for even a full day is treachery.
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I would like to thank you for taken the time to read and reply to my article, and for sharing the information you provided. I enjoyed reading your post!
My apologies but the two posts below have to be read from the bottom up.
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Aaron
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...Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper which is a remembrance of His death for sin,
Matthew 26:27-28
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Muslims say they believe in Jesus, but they don’t celebrate the Lord’s Supper as Jesus commanded. Muslims say they believe in Jesus, but they do not believe in the Jesus of history Who taught about His death and the forgiveness of sins.
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Aaron
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The Apostle Paul wrote, “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures†(1 Corinthians 15:3). Historically, the Qur’an does not affirm Jesus’ death on the cross or His first century resurrection from the dead.
Doctrinally, Muslims reject Jesus’ death for sin as “contrary to Divine mercy and justice as much as it is to human logic and dignity†(Articles of Faith). This is problematic because Christians have historical reasons for believing the doctrine that Jesus died for sin. We have historical reason to believe this is something Jesus taught, “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many†(Matthew 20:28). During the celebration of the Passover (the remembrance of the historical event of Israel’s exodus from Egypt), Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper which is a remembrance of His death for sin,
Matthew 26:27-28
Then he took t