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What do they say about Islam? 4 THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAM W. Montgomery Watt in his book: ‘What is Islam?’ said: “Prejudice is only one of the difficulties to be met by the European or American student of Islam. As soon as he begins to describe Islam as ‘the religion of the Qur’an”, or “the religion of the four hundred million Muslims of today”, he introduces a category which does not fit the category of ‘religion’. For what does “religion” now mean to the Occidental? At best, for the ordinary man, it means a way of spending an hour or so on Sundays in practices which give him some support and strength in dealing with the problems of daily life, and which encourages him to be friendly towards other persons and to maintain the standards of sexual propriety; it has little or nothing to do with commerce or economics or politics or industrial relationships. At worst it fosters an attitude of complacency in the more prosperous individuals and breeds smugness. The European may even look at religion as an opiate developed by exploiters of the common people in order to keep them in subjugation. How different from the connotations to the Muslim of the verse (3:19): “the true religion with God is Islam!” The word translated as ‘religion’ is Dīn, which, in Arabic, commonly refers to a whole way of life. It is not a private matter for individuals, touching only the periphery of their lives, but something which is both private and public, something which permeates the whole fabric of society in a way of which men are conscious. It is all in one theological dogma, forms of worship, political theory, and a detailed code of conduct, including even matters which the European would classify as hygiene or etiquette.” 1
The Pillars of Islam THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Physical and verbal acts of worship are called the Pillars of Islam. There are five Pillars of Islam.They are as follows: 1 The Testimony of Faith (Shahaadatayn): This is the testimony that ‘none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger’. This testimony is the key with which one becomes a Muslim.The meaning of the first part of the testimony, “none has the right to be worshipped but Allah”, is that: 1) Allah is the Creator of all that exists. 2) Allah is the Proprietor of all that exists and the Disposer of all affairs. 3) Allah is the One Who deserves to be worshipped alone. There is no other God worthy of worship except Allah, and Mohammad is his messenger. The meaning of the second part of the testimony, ‘Muhammad is His slave and Messenger’ contains the following meanings: 1) To obey the Messenger () in what he ordered. 2) To believe in everything he said. 3) To refrain from what he prohibited and warned against. 4) And that you do not worship Allah except by what the Messenger () legislated. 5
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