Omar Suleiman

That's what you have to believe to be a Muslim.

You have to believe in those six things, right?

And then you go to the pillars of faith, the five pillars of faith.

or they make up the structure of those articles of faith, the practice of the Muslim.

So to be a Muslim, you testify that there's only one God worthy of worship and unconditional obedience, and then you testify that Muhammad is the final messenger of God.

That's the first pillar.

It's the actual testimony entering into Islam.

Then it's the five daily prayers.

Practicing the five daily prayers, at least as a bare minimum obligation.

The mandatory charity, which is called the Zakat, that Muslims have to give at least 2.5% of their retained earnings to specific categories of charity.

Then it is the fasting of the month of Ramadan.

the mandatory fasting of the month of Ramadan.

And then it's the Hajj, if you can do so, the pilgrimage, if you can do so once in your lifetime.

So those are the five pillars of Islam.

So Ramadan is,

is a month in which Muslims engage in this incredible spiritual bootcamp.

Now, fasting can mean different things to different people.

When we fast, we fast from before sunrise to sunset for an entire month, and there's no food or water, period.

And no intimacy as well.

So you would abstain from intimacy with your spouse as well in that time.