The Teachings of the Muslim Faith

Muslim - The teachings of the Muslim faith comes from their founder, Muhammad. Muhammad was born in Mecca c. 570 and died c. 632. He claimed to be the Prophet whom God (Allah) had chosen for mankind. The Islamic's holy book, the Quran, was believed to be superior to the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible. Muhammad did find them divinely inspiring, but not enough to be the final revelation. The sharia (law of Islam), Quran, and hadith (sayings) were the basic elements of Islam as a theology, a judicial system, and a way of life. It was the mosque, the five pillars of Islamic faith and behavior, and the Sufi brotherhoods that really made common people feel they were Muslim.

The faith's five pillars are (1) the belief