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11.4 Let’s Practice…

1. What is the purpose of fasting?

2. Fasting is obligatory for Muslims during what holy month?

3. What is a Muslim not allowed to do from sunrise to sunset during this fasting month?
4. What is the pilgrimage called where all Muslims are commanded to come to Mecca?

5. What is the reason for this pilgrimage?
6. What happens on the first of the five days of the pilgrimage?

7. What happens on the second day of the pilgrimage?

8. What happens on the third day of the pilgrimage?

9. What happens on the four and fifth day of the pilgrimage?

11.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson…

Activity: The Hajj is a very significant event in the life of a Muslim. Once during their lifetime, if
possible, they carefully plan and prepare for this special trip. You can imagine their excitement
when they arrive in Mecca and begin their five days of contemplation and worship of Allah. Two
million people yearly come to Mecca to perform the Hajj and most stay in tent cities about three
miles outside of Mecca. There are all kinds of rules and regulations that each person must carefully
follow and assigned duties each day. They even cast stones at the Devil on several of the days of the Hajj.

The Muslim believes that Abraham offered up Ishmael (father of the Arab nations) to God as a sacrifice rather than
Isaac. It is the only event in Islam that a sacrifice is discussed. Yet they not only get the details of the Biblical story
wrong, but they miss the entire significance of the story. It was on this same hill, Mt. Moriah, that God sent His
only Son to become the sacrifice for all men’s sins.

Pray for Muslims, that they can learn the true story of Abraham’s sacrifice and come to know the ONE who gave His
life for them!

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