According to legend, Muhammad was commanded by the archangel Gabriel to create Islam. Moses was the main founder of Islam, and Muslims follow the teachings of the Torah.

The statements that DO NOT correctly describe some aspect of the five pillars of Islam are the following: “Muslims give up meat and sweet during lent each year” and “anyone who claims to be a Muslim but does not make a pilgrimage to mecca cannot achieve salvation.

The five pillars – the declaration of faith (shahada), prayer (salah), alms-giving (zakat), fasting (sawm) and pilgrimage (hajj) – constitute the basic norms of Islamic practice. They are accepted by Muslims globally irrespective of ethnic, regional or sectarian differences.

Pillars of Islam, Arabic Arkān al-Islām, the five duties incumbent on every Muslim: shahādah, the Muslim profession of faith; ṣalāt, or prayer, performed in a prescribed manner five times each day; zakāt, the alms tax levied to benefit the poor and the needy; ṣawm, fasting during the month of Ramadan; and hajj, the …

Imam Shamsi Ali, from the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, recites it for us in his beautiful voice….The Five Pillars are the core beliefs and practices of Islam:

• Profession of Faith (shahada).
• Prayer (salat).
• Alms (zakat).
• Fasting (sawm).
• Pilgrimage (hajj).

It’s impossible to cheat on the 5 pillars because God knows and sees all. Much like the five pillars, Christians pray at certain times in the day.

The Bangladesh 2011 census states, that approximately 12.73 million people responded that they were Hindus, constituting 8.54% of the total 149.77 million….Hindu population by administrative divisions.