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Adalah

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Basic Muslim Beliefs

Five Pillars of Islam

Shahādah - Profession of faith
Salah - Prayer
Zakât - Paying of alms
Sawm - Fasting during Ramadan
Hajj - Pilgrimage to Mecca

Tawhīd - Oneness
Adalah - Justice
Nubuwwah - Prophethood
Imāmah - Leadership
Qiyâmah - Judgment day

Salah - Prayer
Sawm - Fasting during Ramadan
Hajj - Pilgrimage to Mecca
Zakât - Poor-rate
Khums - One-fifth tax
Jihad - Struggle
Amr-Bil-Ma'rūf - Commanding good
Nahi-Anil-Munkar - Forbidding evil
Tawalla - Loving the Ahl al-Bayt
Tabarra - Disassociating from Ahl al-Bayt's enemies

Walayah - Guardianship
Taharah - Purity & cleanliness
Salah - Prayers
Zakât - Purifying religious dues
Sawm - Fasting during Ramadan
Hajj - Pilgrimage to Mecca
Jihad - Struggle

Shahadah - Profession of faith
Salah - Prayer
Zakât - Paying of alms
Sawm - Fasting during Ramadan
Hajj - Pilgrimage to Mecca
Walayah - Guardianship
Jihad - Struggle

Adalah means justice and denotes The Justice of God. It is among the five Shia Roots of Religion.

The Shias believe that there is intrinsic good or evil in things, and that God commands them to do the good things and forbade the evil. They believe that God acts according to a purpose or design, and human reason cannot comprehend this design or purpose in its entirety (though man must always strive to understand as much as he can).

The Sunni School of thought does not consider Justice of God as part of Usool-e-Deen. It subscribes to the view that nothing is good or evil per se, and that what God commanded people to do became good by virtue of his command, and what he forbade became evil.

Category: Shi'a Islam

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