Ive found that i opened new yorker, and here are political cartoons on our meditation one thing, it says, our journey. You know, he says, have we arrived yet . These little children sitting there in meditative poses. And when we were talking about the dome of the rock, theres a spread in the magazine about that. Everything seems so current now. You begin to see these things once you it reminds me of my geology class. You know, i took geology to get through my general ed, and just taking that course, it helps me see more in the natural environment, and hopefully, with a class like beliefs and believers, you get sensitized, you know, to seeing the issues that regard religion and beliefs and behavior out there. Anybody else . Yitzhak rabin said, during the israeli conflict with the palestinian or the arabs, whatever he said if he didnt know the bible very well, they never would have found the water holes, and he said, if thats true, what about the rest of it . Yes, well said. I mean, that
To say anything this week. However why not . Ive found that i opened new yorker, and here are political cartoons on our meditation one thing, it says, our journey. You know, he says, have we arrived yet . These little children sitting there in meditative poses. And when we were talking about the dome of the rock, theres a spread in the magazine about that. Everything seems so current now. You begin to see these things once you it reminds me of my geology class. You know, i took geology to get through my general ed, and just taking that course, it helps me see more in the natural environment, and hopefully, with a class like beliefs and believers, you get sensitized, you know, to seeing the issues that regard religion and beliefs and behavior out there. Anybody else . Yitzhak rabin said, during the israeli conflict with the palestinian or the arabs, whatever he said if he didnt know the bible very well, they never would have found the water holes, and he said, if thats true, what about
but coming from a devout muslim, could you explain the five pillars of islam to us? yeah. these five pillars basically are- there are two aspects of- that we just call the five articles of faith, and then the practice of that faith comprised into the five pillars of islam. and the first pillar of islam, it is called shahada- it means bearing witness to the truth- and it goes like that, that i be a witness there is no god but allah, and i bear witness that mohammed is his final the last messenger. now this is a kind of confession out of credal formula, in a sense that anybody who wants to be- join the community of the muslims just has to take the shahada or make- confess that in the public, he will be considered as a muslim. now how one muslim, or a person being a muslim must live as his relation to god, then these are the rest of the other four pillars which explain. and so from that, the second would be what muslims call the salaat, or the performance of the worship prayer