Pillars of Islam

Pillars of Islam
Book 2, Chapter
4
Introduction
There are five key practices that all Muslims are
obligated to fulfil throughout their lifetime.
These practices are referred to as pillars because
they form the foundation of Muslim life.
The five pillars of Islam are Shahada, Salah, Zakat,
Sawm, and Hajj.
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Prayer
(Salah)
2nd pillar
Made obligatory in 2nd
A.H
Gift of Isra wal Miraj
Prayer Individual Prayers
Congregational Prayers
These have 27x more reward
than individual ones
Salah means
communication 5 daily namaaz
The 5 daily namaaz can be
•It is compulsory on Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and given in congregation
every sane and Isha
conscious mature Sunnah Friday Prayers
man and woman
Nafl Eid Namaaz
•There are two
types of prayer – Witr Funeral Prayers
Individual and
Congregational. Qasr Taraweeh
Qaza
Tahajjud
clean and pure” (9:108)
Direction:
“…Turn then your face in the direction of the
Sacred Mosque”
Timing:
“Prayers indeed have been enjoined on
believers at fixed times”
Purity of clothes and surroundings: “
Cleanliness is half of Faith” Prophet

Muhammad
Intention:
“Actions are judged by intentions” Prophet
Muhammad
Appropriate Clothings: “
Take your adornment (by wearing proper

clothing) for every Mosque ”
Conditions of Prayer
Wudu:
Prayer •Acts that invalidate wudu:

• Vomiting
Forbidden Times of Prayer: • Sleep
•there are also a few times when it • Urination
is sinful to pray:At high noon, for • Defecation
that is when hell is stoked up • Passing gas
•When the sun is rising at setting, • Excretion of intestinal worms
for it sets between Shaitan’s horns
• Flowing of blood
• Fits of insanity
• Unconscious
• Laughing during prayer
Prayer (Method)
• Niyat •Ruku
• Takbeer-e-Tahreema •Qoma
• Qayam •Sajdah
• Sana
•Jalsa
• Taooz
•Sajdah
• Tasmiya
• Qirrat
•Qada & Tahasshud (At-Tahiyat,
Durood, and supplication)
• Surah Fatihah
•Tasleem
• “The prayer would not
be accepted from one
who does not recite
the opening of the
Book” Prophet
Muhammad
• Another Surah
Qasr, Qaza and Combined
Prayers
Qasr: Qaza:
•When it is performed: •When it is performed:
• If a person is able to perform prayer • You need to be travelling a distance of
and remembers that he forgot to do >=48 miles for <=19 days
so (under the circumstances listed •How it is performed:
below) Qaza must be performed • Zuhr, Asr, and Isha are shortened
• A person sleeps through it • Fajr and Maghrib remain the same
• A person forgets to do it • Sunnah and Nafl are unnecessary
• If an accident is taking place • Witr is still compulsory during Ishaa
• During illness •“There is no expiation (for prayer)
except the prayer itself” Prophet
• During unconsciousness Muhammad
Salah: Sajdah Sahv
Qasr, Qaza and Combined
Prayers
Combined:
•When it is
performed:
• If there is bad
weather
• If you are
sick
• If there is
danger
• In case of
pressing
need
• During Hajj
• If you can not
stay pure for
Friday Prayers
Eid Prayers:
It is Wajib for every male, adult, sane Muslim
They were made compulsory in 1AH
Congregational They can be offered from sunrise to midday
Since it is a special occasion, a bath should
Prayers be taken, new clothes and perfume should
be worn
Funeral Prayers
It is a Farz-e-Kifaya prayer performed when
someone passes away
Fasting (Saum)
People who Must Fast:
•Sane, adult, healthy Muslims
Exemptions:
•The old
•The chronically ill
•Those overwhelmed by hunger/thirst so much that they fear
they might contract an illness or die if they continue fasting
•Travellers
•People with hard jobs that require constant attention (such as
soldiers)
Ramadan
Sehri
The Holy Prophet has emphasized its goodness multiple
times:“Take Sehr as there is blessing in it”
Behavior:
•During Ramadan, one must make special efforts
to be good and abstain from bad deeds
• As the irritance due to hunger makes this much more difficult,
good deeds are 70x more rewarded
Iftari
Lailatul Qadr
•On this day, Angel Gibrael and other angels
descend to take your prayers and bless you
• Supplications are answered most in this night – it has high
rewards
•“Night of Power is better than a thousand
months” (97:3)
Qaza, Fidya, and Kuffara Fasts
Qaza: Kuffara
Fidya:
•To be performed by: •To be performed by:
•To be performed • People who have
• Travellers by: intentionally broken
• Menstruating and • The elderly their fast without
breastfeeding women • The chronically any justified reason
• People overcome by ill • People who have
hunger or thirst to • People who vomited to break
such an extent that have hard jobs
they fear they might
their fasts
which require
contract an illness or constant
die if they continue attention
fasting • Pregnant
women
Qaza, Fidya, and Kuffara Fasts
Qaza: Kuffara
Fidya:
•How to perform: •How to perform:
•How to
• The number of • As it is a
perform:Througho punishment:
missed fasts are ut Ramadan, you • You either perform
performed in any must feed the 60 consecutive fasts
month other than poor twice a day in any month other
Ramadan than Ramadan
• They are performed •The donated food • You feed 60 people
between the 2nd must be 2.25kg of everyday
day of Eid ul Fitr and that food which • You give money
the next Ramadan you eat equivalent to
Sadqatul Fitr for 60
days
Dates for Voluntary and
Forbidden Days for Fasting
Voluntary Fasts: Forbidden Days for Fasting:

•Every Monday and Thursday •Days of Eid (Satan fasts then)
•11th, 12th, and 13th of the •Days of Tashreeq as it is Sunnah
Islamic months to eat meat then
•9th and 10th of Muharram •To fast only on Fridays
•1st-10th of Zil Hajj •To fast every day of the year
•6 fasts in Shawwal • “There is no reward for
•Day of Arafat one who perpetually
fasts” Prophet
Muhammad
Zakat (Charity)
•Zakat means purification

• It purifies one’s heart and wealth
•Zakat is necessary on you if the amount of savings
you have is equals to or greater than Nisab
• You must have had this for a year
•It is not due on the youth and those in debt
Nisab and Rate
•Mineral Wealth:7 ½ tolas •Cattle:

•Agricultural Produce:
of gold • If you have 5-9
• 2.5% are to be • For naturally irrigated
camels,you must
given land, 10% of your give a 1 year old
yield must be given female sheep
•52 ½ tolas of silver as Zakat
• 2.5% are to be • For 30-39 bulls, a 1
• For artificially
year old calf must be
given irrigated land, 5% of given
•Mines give 20% of their your yield must be
given as Zakat • For 10-120 sheep or
mineral wealth
goats, 1 sheep must
be given
Who can Receive Zakat
The recipients of Zakat are mentioned in 9:60
Verily, the Sadaqat are only The poor (Al Fuqara)
for the poor and the needy The needy (Al Masakeen
and those employed to collect;
and to attract the heart of Those involved in the collection
those who have been inclined; and distribution of Zakat (Al
and to free the captives; and Amiloon Alayhi)
for those in debt; and for New converts (Al Muallafati
Allah’s cause, and for the Quloob)
wayfarer; a duty imposed by
Allah…” Slaves (Ar-Riqaab)
Those in debt (Al Gharimoon)
Those acting in the way of Allah (Fi
Sabiullah)
Travellers (Ibnus Sabeel)
Etiquettes of Giving Zakat:
•Do not use Zakat as a means to Importance of Giving Zakat

flaunt your wealth Generosity
• Furthermore, do not show off
Purification
that you gave Zakat to flaunt
your spirituality Gratitude
• “Charity that is Ethical
concealed, dispels the Economic
wrath of Allah” Prophet
Muhammad Welfare
•Do not give Zakat out of money
earned through unlawful means
Rewards and Punishments
Rewards Punishment
Allah, the Exalted, says, ‘Spend, O •Those who give not the Zakat and
son of Adam, and I shall spend on
you. ” Prophet Muhammad they are disbelievers in the
Take Sadaqa from their wealth in
hereafter” (41:7)
order to purify them and sanctify •The heat of your selfish wealth
them” will be burnt onto your back
“There are seven whom Allah will
shade on the Day of Judgement… A •Angels will curse those who do
man who gives in charity and hides not pay Zakaat
it, such that his left hand does not
know what his right hand gives in
charity” Prophet Muhammad

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Purity of clothes and surroundings: “

Cleanliness is half of Faith” Prophet

Take your adornment (by wearing proper

Prayer •Acts that invalidate wudu:

Voluntary Fasts: Forbidden Days for Fasting:

•Zakat means purification

•Mineral Wealth:7 ½ tolas •Cattle:

•Do not use Zakat as a means to Importance of Giving Zakat

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