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    of Muslim’s life is the five pillars. These five pillars are: belief that there is only one God and that Muhammad is his last messenger and prophet which is called “the confession”‚ perform prayers five times each day facing Mecca called “Salat”‚ fasting is

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    Eid Ul Fitr

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    This marks the end of Ramadan‚ the month of fasting‚ and is a festival of great celebration. In Islamic countries it is a public holiday. The first Eid was celebrated in 624 CE by the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) with his friends and relatives. Muslims are not only celebrating the end of fasting‚ but thanking Allah for the help and strength that he gave them throughout the previous month to help them practice self-control. The festival begins when the first sight of the new moon is seen in the sky

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    Eid; S Celebration

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    Eid’s day will be celebrated by the Muslims after one month of fasting. For Muslims‚ Eid’s day is a special day to celebrate after we have gone through fasting for a month from food and drinks starting from Subuh until Maghrib. There are three synonymous Eid’s day symbols for me which include wearing traditional clothes‚ making many types of traditional food and baking cookies. For me the most synonymous symbols is wearing traditional clothes such as “baju melayu” and “baju kurung”. Some people

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    Mr. Grant H. Ward Mosaics I May 2013 The Five Pillars of Islam The ’Five Pillars ’ of Islam are the foundation of a Muslim ’s life. Islam is the fastest growing nation and the religion spread rapidly throughout the first two hundred years. Initially‚ Islam grew by force‚ and then slowly evolved into a peaceful way of cultivating through missionaries. Today‚ the two largest Islamic countries are Indonesia and Malaysia. The Five Pillars come from the Qur ’an‚ the last of all scriptures. According

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    weight for a competition‚ or simply trying to attempt to lose weight for a variety of personal reasons. Weight cutting would be defined as an athlete making an effort to lose weight rapidly by means such as‚ but not limited to‚ extreme dieting or fasting‚ not consuming enough water‚ excessive exercising in plastic suits‚ saunas‚ abusing diuretics‚ laxatives‚ and water pills‚ and/or

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    Muslim Culture

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    Cultural Assessment of the Muslim Population in the United States Jordan Wooten The University of Northwestern State in Shreveport Abstract The Muslim American culture varies slightly from the rest of the Muslim population around the world. Muslim Americans view religion as less important than other Muslim groups‚ along with becoming more independent of the family as a whole. The majority of the Muslim American culture can be defined in several categories such as Bio-cultural variations and

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    the end of the month‚ when a celebratory feast occurs in remembrance of Muhammad’s great revelations. Muslims incorporate fasting into their ritual because they believe it is a disciplined way of displaying empathy to those less fortunate. They believe fasting will open up the opportunity for the less fortunate to have what they would have indulged in throughout the day. Fasting includes withholding from the consumption of food‚ liquid‚ tobacco‚ sexual relations (Molloy‚

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    God‚ and as such human beings are the trustees of such wealth. Zakat is the practice of charity that requires all Muslims who can‚ to contribute a fixed amount to the poor. The fourth pillar is that of fasting‚ otherwise known as Sawm; all Muslims are obliged to fast during the month of Ramadan. Fasting entails abstaining from eating‚ drinking‚ smoking and sex from dawn until sunset‚ instead committing to the reading of the Qur’an. The fifth and final pillar is the pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca

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    Detox Diets: Placebo

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    No evidence supports that harmful chemicals accumulate in the body (in fact‚ the liver and kidneys are pretty good at getting rid of bodily toxins). And even if toxins did accumulate in the body‚ there’s no reason to believe that these detox diets would get rid of them. Toxicologists A. Jay Gandolfi‚ an associate dean for research in the college of pharmacy at the University of Arizona‚ and Linda Birnbaum‚ director of the experimental toxicology division of the Environmental Protection Agency made

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    phenotypes for related samples. The latent variable can be incorporated with information on individuals as fixed or random effects into the model (called multilevel IRT model). They used the five metabolic syndrome (MetS) components (waist circumference‚ fasting glucose levels‚ HDL-cholesterol‚ triglycerides‚ and blood pressure) as the multivariate binary phenotypes. The Rasch model has one location parameter b_i for ith item affection jth individuals from the kth family with latent trait θ_jk. The response

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