Living The Muslim Life

Nature and Purpose of the acts:

• Guide them in how they should live their lives
• Allow them to get closer to Allah
• Achieve the reward of paradise after death

The Ten Obligatory Acts:

• Salah - pray x5 a day
  
• Sawm - Fasting during Ramadan
• Zakah - donating 2.5% of wealth to needy 
• Hajj - pilgrimage to Makkah at least once in life
• Khums - Chairty Tax, helping need, and helping Shi'a leaders
• Jihad - Struggle of being a good muslim
• Amr-bil-Maroof - Commandment from Qur'an teaching Shi'a Muslims the way should act
• Nahi Anil Munkar - Forbidding evil
  
• Tawalla - Expressing love to good
• Tabbara - moving away from those who turn against Allah
  

Nature of the Shahada

Anyone who cannot recite thisis not a Muslim. Muslims believe that it demonstates their loyalty to Allah and Islam. ''There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger"

Role of Shahada today

• Recited out loud in front of witness
• Wispered into the ear of newborn babies
• Said before death to demonstrate comittment
• Recited throughout the day

Nature, History, and purpose

• Demonstrates Unity
  
• Prophets of Allah performed daily prayers and was commanded by Muhammad
• Brings Muslims closer together

'And worship your Lord unitl there comes to you the certainty (death)' (Surah 15:99)

How Prayers are performed:

• Muslim men expected to attend Mosque and pray, women are not
• Prayer can happen anywhere that is clean and if Wudu has been performed