Spiritual progress is measured by the believer's faithfulness in obedience to the "Five Pillars," or religious duties, including prayer, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Dr. Khelif, who has grown a long, shaggy white beard and assumed the duties of prayer speaker at another mosque since the revolution, denied that any Salafi preachers occupied mosques by force.
"So I say, hard work is a duty like prayer.
Muslims do not differ on essentials such as the oneness of God, the literalness of his word as voiced by Muhammad, or the duty to perform prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage and jihad, which means something like "struggle".
As befits so awesome a phenomenon, the science of studying law -- jurisprudence, or fiqh -- came to be considered a duty akin to prayer.
But for the most part, the monks have been given wide latitude to carry out their religious duties, which include saying prayers for the dead, a central element of Tibetan Buddhism that aims to calm the soul and help it attain a good rebirth.
They believe that fundamentalist voters were more likely than others to have responded to the calls to vote from supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has compared casting a ballot to a religious duty like daily prayers.
Show them how to perform prayer and Islamic duties.
The ministry told all the imams across the West Bank that it was their religious duty to dedicate their Friday prayer to campaign for Palestinian political prisoners.The plan backfired.
By Hendrik Hertzberg February 11 , 2010Are you one of those who have heard of Reinhold Niebuhr and know a few things about him (prominent Protestant theologian; strong voice for tough-minded postwar liberalism; originator of the Serenity Prayer; "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world"; favorite thinker of Barack Obama) but haven't actually read anything he wrote?
