2011..WORLD RELIGIONS What Is Sunni or Divine? Shiite? Questions common Once united, to most religious now divided traditions p. 229 p.5 What Are the Roles of Mind, Jesus: Body, and > Carpenter, Spirit? Prophet, Rationality for - Mystic, or human religious Savior? experience p. 162 p. 12 Beaakening Huddhism The Path to Enlightment p.70The Steps of the Hajj OM cuene Kole DANN nae eee eer foot, and men wear white sheats of cloth, They are not permitted to wear jewelry (except for wodding rings), or use perfume or scented flletrios. Women are Pree tar et al eae terete a ed ta ail usful feeling must be cast aside. Pilgrims may not shed animal's blaod or Peace err eas Farrivalto Mecca (nomattenwhat time of niantoruay) tier saul teks A GhaGh he At i A 2 Ee ei 2 Wuquf = The stand before God CAG OMUC CD Gc ker elie st AS a ies Gilt, Ge bed ‘Stoning the Jamrahs URC Ce Ag clu ees REC et aR auc ASAE renee Pee EV CLERC Ce ue} ‘Those who can afford it purchase a sheep or a goat and sacrifice It for the feast. This represents Ibrahim’s dedication to God and his willingness to sacrifi ‘own son. No meat is wasted during the celebration, and pilgrims often take what Pe ee BUUCRoC After returning from Arafat, pilgrims must circle the Kaaba once more. Se ee Although many Muslims perform other rituals such as shaving their heads or kissing the black stone of the Kabbah, these eight steps form the backbone of the hajj. How might these individual actions relate to the other four Pillars of Islam?you give chant open, tis good, but if you keap secret and give to the needy in prvate, thats batter for you, and it wal atone for some of your bad deeds: God! §¢ wall aware of a that you do, (2:267-71) ‘As lla developed, it created a set of rus to help Musins ave aoeropvate amounts of their wealth to the poor It's Ile contusing, bocauee Musime often Ferchange the terms they use for charity. zaka and sadaaa. (The plural of zaka is zakat, and you't hear both versions of the word) Lot's use zakat when referring more specifically to mandatory giving of money, and sadaga as a more general term for chaty YouTte more they to lea about zakat than sadioga in a clas on Islen, Uke the other for pills, af Muses must flow the rues of zakat ‘othe adant tat thy’ abl, Hath rues have renterpoted zat nthe ght of cnanging crcumstances,Irot, everyone woul stil be expected 'o pay zokat in Comes! To give zakat isto hep the islamic urea: This ‘mony must be given te Musims, not fo nan-Musims or oer charities Infact, nadth practice deserbes eight groups that should receive 2akat ‘As you study the grachic on the next page, ntioe how this system hips bald up the ume, _Ammagiving—sadaga—comes Fem the haar a completely nic Uualacten 1 heb otners. lathe best cases, no one even knows whe has ven money to charitable cause, a boggar on tha see, ora pire needing financial hep. The Qur'an and the hadith praise people who ave money this way, sinoe they go Boyan the basic fee plas, ‘Athough sada ought to bo gven foo, Musim trations do esenbe spectic benefits rom i Many Musliss wil give aims 10 help party themselves aftar dang something inaporopeate, Ws especialy ower you gue sadaga emmedatey ater you have sinned. It can yer make up for z0kat tat you've forgotten or stl chosen pot to ve, You shoud consider ging sadaaa when you'te leaving on a jour ney oF ger nto hms way. And though you can give anytime, sade when you're young and healthy procuces more merit than when you're fry and esr death (E Sac’, Sadiaga alse helps shiek! you rom evi, You can almost see a hint of ‘arma in his concept, for he ats you gue now can help Keep you safe from harm i the future. Some people even gve sadaaa oay in the ‘morning the same tie the Buchist manks receive ams, 10 Keep YOU sate a day ong, LUtimata’y, zakat ond sadage help everyone involved, The aver ts the merit and good feeling that cames along with his oF her agit The ume receives the funding necessary to continue its work ‘Ang the recelver of sadeqa, whoever that mght be, benefts rom what Is gen. An okt Musi saying dasesibes the transformative power of sadaga inthe voice of the person receiung aid. “I was ile an you made me mud, 1 was small and you made me great, I wexs your fnemy and you made me your tend. | was pershaaie and you made ime permanant, | was guarded end you mace me your guard” € | ‘Sadace". >>> Like the earth around the sun, Muslims on the hajj circle the sacred Kaaba shrine in a ritual called the Tawa The Hajj: The Fifth Pillar of Islam Consider how the Kaaba creates a worldwide Must umma: Since the time of the Prophet, Musins everyvhow have tured toward Mecca five times a day to pray. At any given moment in the last ‘minute, someone somewhere has tuned! in that direction and bowed down, No single place in the work has that kind of power for citer rekgons—not Jerusalem, the Bodhi Toe, or Rome. t's as ifthe Kaaba is a sacred magnet, puling each Musim into agent. Even if there wore no hal the Keaba woul! stil have an incredible poner to lnk Muslims logather a huge sacred communty that goes backward and forward in ume, Imagine the hay. I you spent your entee ita tuning toward Mecea and the Kaaba. now would you fea! when you aly rived? You Wout have to turn toward Mecca for prayers you'd be there, would seem Ike Earth had tuned on its axis. Instead of the North and South Pole, you's ool the Munim word spiring around you, fing the spot where you sland. you wore a Sut, you may have symbotcaly created this fooling dusing the ake, spinning around your shayk? ike the moon round Earth In Mecca, you'd realize thal you were alse spining Ho the uma around the Kaaba Munammact made the frst Muskm plgimage t0 Mocca after ho hag won the city back for God and stripped the Kaaba ofits 300 hea then ab dais. Nkisims aleve that, even Detore Munarymad, fahien (Abraham to Jews and Christians) stood at thal vory lace, ready to sacrifice Ns Son 19 God. Ibrahim set the comer stone of the Kaaba and showed himealt 19 be tho frst Musk —a man wholly subservient to God. ‘Bocause of this, Mubaread insructed al Muss to join hie on a tek to Mecca, Although you can go more otten it you have the