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Islam 101: Sawm

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This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Five Pillars of Islam.  The first diary was about shahadah, the second about salat, and the third about zakat.

Sawm is the required fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan.  During this lunar month, nothing may be eaten nor drunk from the break of dawn until sunset.  Other prohibitions include no sexual activity nor any smoking.  Sawm is the opposite of all the other pillars:  with shahadah, salat, zakat and hajj, there is an activity to be performed; with sawm, no activity is done.  Instead, while fasting during Ramadan, Muslims focus their day around spiritual matters, using the empty feeling in their stomachs to concentrate their minds.


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