Wiktionary
n. The five basic ritual or devotional duties of Sunni Islam, namely: a declaration of faith in God (shahada); five daily prayers (salat); fasting (saum); almsgiving (zakat); and pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj).
Wikipedia
Five Pillars or five pillars may refer to:
- Five Pillars of Islam, often regarded as basic religious acts of Muslim life
- Five pillars puzzle, a mechanical puzzle also known as Baguenaudier and five pillars problem
- Five Pillars of cyber security, the framework for the United States military cyberwarfare
- Five Pillars of Reform in the Modernising Government Programme in India
- Five Pillars of Statesmanship and 5 Pillar Certification in the Thomas Jefferson Education methodology
- Five Pillars of success at the St. Richard's Episcopal School
- The five pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution, a theory by Jeremy Rifkin
- Five pillars of the Delta Xi Phi Sorority at the University of Illinois
- Five pillars of the Armenian Youth Federation
Usage examples of "five pillars".
And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
In minutes, the battle had been taken fully inside the five pillars.
It was time for daily prayers, the Salat, the second of Islam's Five Pillars.
Look here, your Wang Daiyu, a most inventive thinker, takes great trouble to equate the Five Pillars of the Islamic Faith with the Five Virtues of Confucianism.
The family home grew from a simple three-pillar house to a compound with wings stretching five pillars each.
Those were three of Islam's Five Pillars, to which he could add a fourth --the Christian Lent wasn't so terribly different from the Islamic Ramadan.
Those were three of Islam's Five Pillars, to which he could add a fourth—.