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| Questão | Responda |
| Polytheism | The belief in more than one God |
| Allah | The God - affirms that there is only one God. |
| Akhira | life after death. |
| Mecca | City in modern Saudi Arabia where Muhammad lived and received his revelations spiritual centre of the muslim world and focus of the Hajj. |
| Tribe | A group of clans |
| Clan | A group of interrelated families |
| Bedouin | Bedouin was an Arab desert nomad |
| Caliph | The four successors of Muhammad - ’rightly guided’; ‘defenders of the faith’. |
| Five Pillars | Foundation of faith - confessions of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage. |
| Hadith | Recorded traditions which maintain sayings/examples (Sunnah) of Muhammad. |
| Haram | Those things that are forbidden. |
| Islam | ‘Submission’ to the will of God; a further meaning is ‘peace’. |
| Jurisprudence | The process/science of interpreting Qur’an and Hadith to arrive at a correct decision. |
| Ka'Bah | Located in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site; the Qur’an states that it was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael. |
| Mecca | Birthplace of Muhammad-place of sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims. |
| Ramadan | The ninth month of the Muslim calendar when able adults undertake rigorous fasting. |
| Salat | Prayer-five times daily which assists adherents over their whole day in submission to Allah. |
| Shahada | The first Pillar: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. |
| Shari'a | Law that defines the path a Muslim must follow in life. |
| Sunnah | The acts and sayings of the Prophet; source of teaching after the Qur’an. |
| Sunni | ‘Path’- the way of Muhammad; approximately 85% of Muslims are Sunni; accepts all four caliphs. |
| Shi'ia | ‘the party of Ali’; emphasis on suffering; specific system of law; majority of expression in Islam. |
| Tawaf | Circling the Ka’ba during Hajj. |
| Tawhid | There is only one God and only this one God can be worshipped; pivotal belief of Islam. |
| Ummah | The universal community of Islam. |
| Zakat | A tax to provide for the needs of the poor and needy; usually 2.5% of a person’s income. |
| Ha'ram | Forbidden and unlawful: or sinful |
| Halal | Permitted and lawful |
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