The Articles of Faith and the Pillars of Islam

What the syllabus asks of you

• the Six Articles of Faith: God, including what Muslims believe about him; angels, their nature and duties; books, their contents and purpose; prophets, their character and function; God’s predestination and decree, its meaning and significance; Resurrection and the last day, the main events and its significance.
• Jihad in its range of meanings, physical, mental and spiritual.
• the Five Pillars of Islam: the declaration of faith, shahada, including the significance of what it contains; prayer, salat, including preparations, its performance and importance, congregational prayers on Fridays and festivals, times of prayer, the place of prayer, private prayer, delayed prayer; alms-giving, zakat, how it is performed and its significance in the community; fasting, sawm, including the way it is observed, its significance and those exempted; pilgrimage, hajj, including the main observances involved and their significance.