W. Robert Godfrey

God is great.

It's interesting when you look at the Old Testament, there are plenty of statements that God is great.

But if you had to find a dominant Old Testament statement, it would be, God is good.

And I think there's a real contrast between the religions there in terms of their emphasis.

Now, I'm sure a Muslim would say that their God is good, but the emphasis is really on the greatness, the transcendence, the holiness, the almost abstractness of God who must be served and to whom one can look for little…

goodness or encouragement or love, support.

The moral requirements of Islam are relatively simple.

No alcohol, no pork.

There is to be a month of fasting annually.

There is to be daily prayers.

There is to be Friday worship.

The daily prayers are to be recited five times a day facing Mecca.

There is to be a month of fasting.

fasting during the daylight hours, Ramadan, and there is ideally to be a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime.

That's requirement.

That is the goal.

So it is fairly simple in a sense.

The foundations are fairly simple, and they talk about the five pillars of Islam.

The first is the confession that Allah is God and Muhammad is His prophet.

The second pillar is the prayer five times a day, and that's what you see from those minarets that are raised in Muslim cities.