What are the five pillars of Islam?
Shahādah, ṣalāh, zakāt, ṣawm, ḥajj — the five foundations of the religion. The classical scholars wrote about each one not as a duty to complete, but as a door.
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The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Imam al-Ghazali — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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"which has been previously mentioned in the section on zakat. A hadith reports that he would never keep a dinar or dirham overnight."
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