Five Pillars Of Islam Today

Five pillars of Islam today

Introduction

It is currently Islam is one of the most practiced and extended monotheistic religions around the world. One of the main characteristics of this religious current is that its practice is based on five fundamental pillars: Sahada, Salat, Zakat, Ramadam and Hach. Ramadan is the pillar that translates like the month of fasting. 

Muslims have to remain the ninth lunar month of their calendar without eating, drinking, or having sex, that is, keeping the body in a pure state during the hours of light. It is mandatory for all Muslims with the exception of children, people with health problems or simply the people who do not carry it out by their work. 

After Ali’s death, the stage of these caliphs ends and a caliphate of a dynasty of the most important of the Peninsula, the Umayyads begins. The Umayyas, who initially oppose Islam and Muhammad for economic reasons, take Islam as a tool for its expansion. They take strategic places for commerce as is the case of Damascus, which they establish as capital and continue to expand through Africa and the Iberian Peninsula until its expansion is slowed by the defeat that Soften Poitiers in 732 starting the decline of the empire of the empire.  The month of fasting can be considered an important element for the expansion and development of religion. 

During the month of Ramadan a social environment is created that cannot be found in any other society.  The wait for the sun to put and the preparations for Liftar, which is the food they take to break the fast are social events that are only in Muslim society.

It is also a time for spirituality. This creates a feeling of union and community, since in addition to being all practitioners, they do it at the same time, which is key to expansion, since it gives a motivation based on the creation of a society mixed with a religious motivation.

Developing

Choose one of the pillars of Islam and, in relation to him:

1. 1. Place its importance for the development of Islam in the historical context of the era of Muhammad, of the immediately successors and omeya calipham caliphs, as far as possible in each case chosen.
2. two. Establish a comparison about practice (or lack of it), of similar activities in cultural and/or religious movements that you consider appropriate. Examples of previous, contemporary, and/or subsequent times can be used. By Alba Carbajo de la Hera.

Muhammad, prophet of Islam, during his stay in Medina after being expelled used this pillar, along with the other four, to create a special community among Muslims. It can be seen that during this month a different and unique type of social life is created for practitioners which helps to promote a feeling of unity among which they were becoming this religion facilitating its expansion through the Arabian peninsula in front of the crowdof existing religions and the opposition of the wealthy clans. 

It also establishes that Ramadan is during the ninth month of his calendar to remember the month where he received Allah’s call through the Archangel Gabriel.  At his death, Islam is totally consolidated as a new religion, but since there is no clear successor there is a fragmentation. So it meant the creation of two branches depending on the interpretation of the Qur’. 

From this moment on, the dissemination of Islamic faith is in charge of the caliphs that take power and that through its territorial expansion this religion reaches new places quickly. During the stage of the Rashidun Califas, the Muslim Empire is quickly extended and next to him the number of followers of Islam.

This Pilar del Islam based on fasting can be found a clear parallel with other religions such as the Christian religion or Jewish religion. In the case of the Christian religion, it can be related to the Lent period. Lent is a period of forty days, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Week, in which Christians must follow fasting norms as penance just like Jesus did in the desert. 

Although this fast has been reduced until simply restricting meat consumption and even restricting it on Fridays for some practitioners. Like Ramadan, this celebration of fasting has spiritual objectives and keeping the pure body during sacred periods to commemorate important dates for its religious tradition.

On the other hand in Judaism, you can also see a tradition of fasting during the Yom Kipur stage, which is the most important period of ten days for its religious tradition. This is known as the day of atonement. During the main day of this period, Yom Kipur, fasting and deprivation of sexual relations are mandatory as during the Ramadan period. It is a day of repentance in which a series of specific sentences must be pronounced. In this case, it differs from Islam in which it does not have the character of purifying the soul but repentance and penance, but the fasting period remains a common factor.

conclusion

It can be concluded that Islam is a religion with which a certain parallelism can be seen with the other two large monotheistic religions because the three worship the same divinity with their own norms. In addition to being Islam after both you can see how Muhammad took different existing concepts and adapt them to create a more simplified new faith. So for these reasons this parallelism can be found in the pillar of fasting between the three religions.

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