history review (shortened)

Jewish Holidays:

Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year, Begins the 10 days of repentance

Yom Kippur - Day of atonement, Day of fasting and prayer, God’s judgement day, holiest day in the Jewish New Year (where you are written in the book of life or death or neither)

Sukkot - festival of booths, eat outdoors in temporary housing to remind of our temporary housing here.

Pesach - passover

Shavuot - feast of weeks, day of delivering the torah to man

Islamic Holidays:

Ramadan - fasting from sunup to sun down

Night of power remembrance - night the Qur’an was given to Muhammed

Eid - al - Fitr - end of Ramadan

Hajj - pilgrimage during the twelfth month

Day of Arafah - holiest day in islam, gather at the plain of arafat to seek Allah’s mercy

Eid - al - Adha - festival of sacrifice

Five Pillars of Islam:

1: Faith -, say and believe “there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet.” you will be a Muslim.

2: pray 5 times a day

3: fasting, mostly done during Ramadan

4: Zakat, giving 2.5% of your income to the poor

5: pilgrimage to Mecca during Hijj (if you can afford it)

7 major sins:

• Witchcraft - associating with the Jinn

• Killing

• Consuming orphans’ wealth

• Consuming riba (charging interest)

• Shirk - associating others with Allah

• Fleeing from the battlefield

• Slandering chaste

Minor sins:

• Gossiping

• Telling small lies

• Not doing non-mandatory prayers

• Looking at inappropriate content without intent

• Persisting in any minor sin makes it major