5 (Five) Pillars of Islam

The 5 pillars of Islam are mandatory to abide by all of the muslims. Those who claim himself as a muslim he/she must have confess that they are familiar with the 5 pillars of islam and spend their time to maintain these 5 pillars of islam. These are:

1. Kalema: It is first part of the 5 pillars of Islam. It elaborates the great sentence “La Ilaha Illallaho”. It means none but Allah is our lord. This is the base of muslim by which the difference amongst Muslim and other religions can be defined. Those who follow this Kalema; they will be succeed, developed both in earth and the heavens. And those who don’t follow this Kalema, they will be failure, insulted, ruined and cast to the hell.

2. Prayer (Salat): What is salat (Prayer)? On which things peoples brought Iman (Read and belief in Kalema), repeating these things by their activities and speeches for 5 times a day is called Prayer (Salat). Going to mosque 5 times a day makes a Muslim more devotee to almighty Allah and it strengthen the Iman of a Muslim.

3. Saom (Fasting): The learning which the Salat let the muslim to be remembered at 5 times a day, the same learning is to be remembered for long 1 month of a year. In the month of fasting taking food is totally stopped from the Sehri to Iftar. Allah will give the special prize in the day of Akherat (Time of after Death) to the peoples who take fast. So we should take all of the fasting properly.

4. Hajj (Visiting holy Mecca): The fourth pillar of Islam is Hajj. It is mandatory to take Hajj for 1 time for a muslim. It is worth mentioning that, the hajj is mandatory to these peoples who have the ability to go to Mecca. I mean, who have the ability to bear the expense the fare of going Mecca.

5. Zakat (Sacrificing): The fifth pillar of Islam is Zakat. The almighty Allah has been made this Zakat as mandatory to the rich classes of peoples of a society. The rule of giving Zakat is; if any one have 40 Taka ( Bangladeshi Money) and if the 40 taka remains stored for 1 year, then 1 take of that should have to given the poor segment of the society and relatives. The main substantial welfare of the Zakat is that, helping between one Muslims to another are increased.