What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

Question

Describe each pillar. . . correct answer gets best answer :)

Answer 1

Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad;
Establishment of the daily prayers;
Concern for and almsgiving to the needy;
Self-purification through fasting; and
The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able.

Answer 2

The Five Pillars of Islam is the term given to what are understood among many Muslims to be the five core aspects of Sunni Islam. The term is not used in Shi'a Islam. For the Sunni community of interpretation, the Five Pillars of Islam (Arkan-al-Islam) are the five most important acts of a Muslim, and which devout Muslims will perform faithfully considering them essential to please Allah.

For the Shi'a community of interpretation, there are five beliefs, which are referred to as the Usūl al-Dīn, the Roots of Religion. In addition, there are ten practices, known as the Furū al-Dīn or Branches of Religion . The ten Branches of Religion correlate more closely to the Sunni concept of the "Pillars of Islam".

There is considerable debate over how recently the five pillars model of Muslim belief and practice has come to be widespread, and certainly increased capacity for communication and travel since the late nineteenth century have been significant factors. Most agree that Muslims have understood the five pillars as obligations incumbent upon the faithful since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. More personalized, mystical devotional practices associated with Sufi interpretations of Islam were and continue to be undertaken as alternatives and supplements to the five pillars by various communities of Muslims. This was even more so the case prior to the rise and global spread of Wahhabism which placed the five pillars at the core of Islamic piety, to the exclusion of other forms of Muslim devotional practice.

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Answer 3

Do needy people include non-Muslims or is the tradition started by stealing and killing Jews and Christians to get the money continued today from AD 600 ?