Rituals

Lifetime Rituals

• Birth
• Naming ceremony
• Giving a person a name before God to recognize their place before Him
• Saying of shahadah to newborn
• Pronouncing that the newborn has been born into the Islamic faith
• Starting the person down the road of Islam
• Circumcision
• Doing what is stated in the Quran 
• Following the rules that have been set forth by Allah
• Marriage
• Dowry
• Signifying what will be given to the husband and what will be given back to the bride should a divorce take place
• Zawaj
• Contract and ceremony
• A list of promises that must be kept during a marriage
• If it is broken, a woman has the right to divorce her husband
• Ceremony signifies the bonding of two people like the bonding between God and his people
• Death
• Cleansing of body/ Ritual dress
• Showing respect for the deceased
• Preparing them for the afterlife 
• Prayers
• Asking Allah to watch over them during the afterlife
• Stating what is said in the Quran
• Burial
• Signifying the act of giving the deceased over to God

Worship

• Following the Five Pillars of Islam
• Salat
• Zakat
• Sawm
• Shahadah
• Hajj
• Living the life that has been stated by Muhammad in the hadiths
• Other acts of individual worship
• Visits to shrines and mosques in different countries
• Saying individual prayers that are not part of Salat