1.what is salat(prayer)? Explain how many times a day?
Answer:
Shalat(salah) is the islamic prayer. Salat consits of five daily prayers according to the sunna. The names are according to the prayers time:fajr(morning dawn), Zuhr(Noon), Ashr(Afternoon), Magrib(After sunset), Isya(late evening night).
2.what is zakat? Explain it!
Answer:
Zakat or alms-giving is the practice of charitable giving by muslims based on accumulated wealth, and is obligatory for all who are able to do so. It is consolidered to be a personal responsibility for muslims to ease economic hardship for others and eliminate inequality. Zakat consits of spending 2.5% of one’s wealth for the benefit of the poor or needy, including slaves, debtors and travelers. A muslims may also donate more as an act of voluntary charity(sadaqah), rather than to achieve additional divine reward. There are five principles that should be followed when giving the zakat:
*The giver must declare to Allah his intention to give the zakat.
*The zakat must be paid on the day that it is due.
*After the offering, the prayer must not exaggerate on spending his money more than usual means.
*payment must be in kind. This means if one is wealthy the he or she needs to pay 2.5% of their income. If a person does not have much money, then they should compensate for it in different ways, such as good deeds and good behavior toward others.
*the zakat must be distributed in the community from which it was taken.
3.What is the core of Islam’s belief mean, and what does it mean?
Answer : The core beliefs of Islam are that there is only one god unitary and beyond compherension and that Muhammad is the prophet of God, the last in a series of prophets beginning with Adam. And its mean islam’s most fundamental concept is a rigorous monotheism,called tauhid god is described in chapter 112
4.What is pilgrimage? Who may do it and how many times?
Answer : pilgrimage that occurs during the islamic month of Dhu al-hijjah to holy city of mecca. Every able bodied Muslim is obliged to make the pilgrimage to mecca at least once in their lifetime.
