dcf.cymru stimulus sheet · RE · Year 9
All three claim to explain the same thing. One is reliable, one is careless and one is selling something. You are evaluating the sources, not judging the faith.
Website B contains deliberate factual errors so that pupils have something to catch. The corrections are in the worked example. Do not leave the lesson without reading the corrections out, so nobody goes home with the wrong information about somebody’s religion.
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Islam rests on five duties, often called the Five Pillars.
Shahadah is the declaration of faith: that there is no god but God, and that Muhammad is the messenger of God.
Salah is prayer. Muslims are required to pray five times each day, at set times that shift through the year because they follow dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset and night. On Fridays, men in particular attend the congregational Jumu’ah prayer at the mosque.
Zakat is obligatory almsgiving. It is normally calculated once a year at 2.5% of a person’s qualifying savings and wealth above a minimum threshold, and it is given to those in need. It is understood as a duty, not a favour.
Sawm is fasting during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. The month lasts 29 or 30 days. Adults who are fasting take no food or drink from dawn until sunset. Children before puberty, people who are ill, travellers, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding are not required to fast.
Hajj is the pilgrimage to Makkah, which every Muslim who is physically and financially able is expected to make once in their lifetime.
Because the Islamic calendar is lunar, Ramadan moves about eleven days earlier each year against the Gregorian calendar, so it can fall in any season.
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Islam has five pillars. The first is believing in God. The second is praying, which Muslims do three times a day facing east.
The third is Zakat, which means giving ten per cent of your income to the mosque.
The fourth is Ramadan. Muslims fast for forty days, and Ramadan is always in March. They cannot eat at all for the whole period.
The fifth is Hajj. Every Muslim has to travel to Makkah every single year, and if they miss a year they have to start again.
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