My Visit to a Mosque Intro to Christian Theology I have been a member of the Catholic Church my entire life. Although I have often taken time to reflect on my faith‚ never once have I made an attempt to explore a religion aside from my own. Recently‚ I stepped outside of my comfort zone and was fortunate enough to visit a mosque. A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam‚ or one who is Muslim. There are a multitude of services I could have visited to experience
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slight religious history and insight to the possible future afterlife of followers (Benton and DiYanni 218). The five pillars of Islam distinguish the mandatory obligations of the faith’s followers‚ including daily prayer‚ testimony of faith‚ giving zakat‚ fasting during the month of Ramadan‚ and pilgrimage to Mecca‚ which must be obeyed in order to achieve eternal life in heaven. Additionally‚ the Quran not only serves as a religious text‚ but also as a textbook from which Muslim education centers
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Business and Management Research Project Higher Level “Should Shanta Garments Ltd change its motivational strategies to increase labour productivity?” Word Counts: Executive Summary: 198 Written Report: 1996 Research Proposal+ Action Plan: 314 Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people: My business and management teachers‚ Mr. Robson and Mr. Rao for their invaluable guidelines The board of directors of the factory especially Mr. Khondoker Jamil Uddin for
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Islam Out of the many interesting religions‚ Islam has uniqueness to it. The name‚ Islam stems from the word “Salam” that means peace. The word “Muslim” which means a follower of Islam refers to a person who submits him or herself to the will of God. Muhammad founded Islam in the year 622CE. This particular religion started when the angel Jibreel supposedly read the first revelation to Muhammad. The Muslims believe in the “one true God” which they call Allah. Islam is totally based on the word
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Sallust‚ a great philosopher argues‚ “By union the smallest states thrive‚ by discord the greatest destroyed.” The fall of Soviet Empire with piles of nuclear arsenals but frail national sentiments‚ while miraculous victory of organized-Hizbollah‚ are manifestations of Sallest’s claim. Hamza Amir in his book “Pakistan- an overdeveloped state” has revealed the fact that after independence‚ the governing class was highly educated‚ on the pattern of the British mind set‚ while on the contrary
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Travis Green Rel 110-01 Sandy Pittman July 28‚ 2010 Compare and Contrast Islam‚ Christianity‚ and Judaism The Middle East is a main region where it served as the origin for many societies and religions such as Christianity and Islam. As they lengthened from this region‚ both of these religions had extensive influence on the route of times gone by. The Christians instituted new churches in cities and this made the expansion of Christianity through the first two centuries a fundamentally metropolitan
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Religious extremism in Pakistan Religious extremism tends to a state of mind of a person about his religion in which he has such firm belief on his concepts such that any negotiation from it is unbearable for him. He becomes aggressive towards the society. As not only he considers himself to follow the religion strictly in his way but wants the society to do so. If unfortunately someone refuses his thoughts‚ he can go to any limit to make that person acting upon his ideology. He can even commit
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OVERVIEW OF TAXATION IN PAKISTAN TAXATION REPORT SECTION: C DATE OF SUBMISSION: NOV 6TH‚ 2012 NAMES OF GROUP MEMBERS: FIZZAH SIDDIQUI (9886) MAIMONA MOBEEN Executive summary INTRODUCTION The constitution empowers the Federal Government to collect taxes on income other than agricultural income‚ taxes on capital value‚ customs‚ excise duties and sales taxes. The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) and its subordinate departments administer the tax system
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Prayer (Salat) And be steadfast in prayer and regular in charity: And whatever good Ye send forth for your souls before you‚ ye shall find it with Allah: For Allah sees well all that ye do. (Quran 2:110) Salat‚ usually translated into English as "prayer"‚ is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other four pillars are the Declaration of Faith (Shahadah)‚ charity (Zakah)‚ fasting (Sawm)‚ and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Salat should be performed five times a day: daybreak (Fajr)‚ noon (Zuhr)
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