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Progressive skills and content

• Explore the practice, meaning and significance of the Five Pillars of Islam as an expression of ibadah (worship and belief in action). Shahadah (belief in one God and his Prophet); salat (daily prayer); sawm (fasting); zakat (alms giving); hajj (pilgrimage). How do these affect the lives of Muslims, moment by moment, daily, annually, in a lifetime?

•  Think about and discuss the value and challenge for Muslims of following the Five Pillars, and how they might make a difference to individual Muslims and to the Muslim community (Ummah). Investigate how they are practised by Muslims in Britain today. Consider what beliefs, practices and values are significant in pupils’ lives.

•  Consider the importance of the Holy Qur’an for Muslims: how it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, how it is used, treated, learnt. Share examples of stories and teaching, e.g. Surah 1, Al-Fatihah (The Opening); Surah 17, the Prophet’s Night Journey. Find out about people who memorise the Qur’an and why (hafiz, hafiza).

•  Find out about the difference between the authority of the Qur’an and other forms of guidance for Muslims: Sunnah (practices, customs and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad); Hadith (sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad).

•  Reflect on what forms of guidance pupils turn to when they need guidance or advice, and examine ways in which these are different from the Qur’an for Muslims.

•  Investigate the design and purpose of a mosque/masjid and explain how and why the architecture and activities, such as preparing for prayer, reflect Muslim beliefs

Knowledge Building Blocks

• Consider questions such as how life is like a journey? What do people use to support them through the journey

• Describe the five pillars of Islam ( shahadah - a belief in one God, salah - prayer, five times a day, sawm- fasting in the month of Ramadan, hajj - pilgrimage and zakah- the giving of alms). 

• To  learn about the Shahadah and how it influences the lives of Muslims.  (The Shahadah: ‘I witness that there is no other god but Allah, and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah’.)

• To learn about how Muslims pray (salah), the importance of prayer and different praying positions (rak'ahs)

• To understand the importance of the Holy Qur’an for Muslims: how it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, how it is used, treated and learned. 

• To learn about different teaching from Holy Qur’an:  e.g. Surah 1, Al-Fatihah (The Opening); Surah 17, the Prophet’s Night Journey. 

• To learn about people who memorise the Qur’an and why (hafiz, hafiza). 

• To find out about the difference between the authority of the Qur’an and other forms of guidance for Muslims: Sunnah (practices, customs and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad); Hadith (sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad). 

• To learn more about the the pillar of Zakah and explain who money is given away to and why. 

• To learn about the period of fasting called Ramadan, why it is important to Muslims and to find out more about what happens at the festival of Eid ul Fitr.