The Holy Book of Islam is called the Qur’an. The Qur’an is said to be the very word of Allah (Ismail K. Poonawala, 2001). The word Allah is Arabic for God and the word Qur’an means recitation.

Islam recognizes earlier prophets, e.g. Jesus, Moses, Abraham and David. This means that Muslims accept the teachings of both the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels. Muslims believe Muhammad is the “seal of the prophecy”, by which they mean he is the last in the series of prophets sent by God to mankind (PBS, 2001).

The Five Pillars of Islam are formal acts of worship that Muslims follow. The five pillars are:

1. Shahada (an Arabic word meaning an act of bearing witness). It consists of two statements. The first, “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah”, and the second, “I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”.

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