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Shia Islamic beliefs and practices

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Shia Islamic beliefs and practices

The beliefs and practices of Twelver Shia Islam are categorised into:

Contents

  • Theology or Roots of the Religion - five beliefs
  • Ancillaries of the Faith or Branches of the Religion - ten practices

    • one of the practices are they always like to be worshipping to god.

    Theological principles

  • Tawhid - the Oneness of God
  • Adl "divine justice"
  • Nubuwwah "prophethood"
  • Imamate "leadership of Mankind"
  • Mi'ad "Resurrection" of the dead

    • The Ancillaries of the Faith

  • Salat "ritual prayer"
  • Sawm "Fasting" during the month of Ramadan
  • Hajj "pilgrimage" to Mecca
  • Zakāt - charitable giving
  • Khums - a "Fifth" of specific kinds of income given to charity
  • Jihad "struggle"
  • Commanding right and forbidding wrong
  • Forbidding what is evil
  • Tawalla - love of faith and the chosen of God
  • Tabarra - disassociation from enemies of the faith and God's chosen.

    • References

    Shia Islamic beliefs and practices Wikipedia
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