The five pillars of Islam: Zakat - Charity

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Islam is the second biggest religion1 in the world. Yet disbite the fact that there is some 2 billion Muslims2 in the world, Islam is still one of the most misunderstood religions, and few people know what Muslims believe and practice. This entry will be looking at Zakat which is one of the five pillars of Islam, before getting started though, lets take a moment to take a brief look at what the five pillars are.

The five Pillars

Islam is structured on five main articles of faith known collectivly as the five piilars. The five pillars are Imaan (Faith), Salaat (Prayer), Saum (Fasting), Zakat (Charity) and Hajj (Pilgrimage).
They are called the five pillars because just like pillars in real life they provide support to a structure. In this case the structue being an individuals faith in Islam. If one of these pillars is missing then the persons faith will be weakend and could collapse, just like wouldhapen in real life if a pillar was taken away from a structure.

Zakat

1The first being Christianity2People who follow Islam are called Muslims. The word Muslim is actually a name of an action and it means 'to submit' or 'to submit ones self to the worship of God'. As such Muslims believe that all people who worship one God are infact Muslims in a sense. It is also very offensive to call Muslims 'Muhammadims' or other such things as it implies that they worship Muhammad where as this is in fact not allowed at all in Islam.

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