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What does the guide list under group and individual religious experience in Islam?
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Jum'a (Friday prayer), sawm (fasting), du'a (individual verbal prayers of supplication), and hajj as a communal and personal experience.
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What is dhikr?
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The Sufi recitation or remembrance of the name of Allah — listed by the guide alongside Sufi dance and meditation.
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What does the guide say about the Shia re-enactment at Kerbela?
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That it is the collective experience of the re-enactment of the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn — an event performed rather than remembered.
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Why does Sufism belong in almost every Islam answer on experience?
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Because an account built only from the Pillars and the schools of law makes Islam sound like a legal system, and Sufi dhikr, dance and meditation show the same tradition pursuing direct awareness of God.
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Which Sufi-associated practice does the guide note is contested?
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Visits to shrines and tombs, which it lists under popular religion and Shi'ism and notes are opposed by Wahhabis.
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What does the guide list under conversion to Islam?
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Studies on conversion using psychological, social, emotional and other approaches; percentages of converts; the issue of mixed marriages; and ethnic identity, naming the Nation of Islam and the Chinese Hui.
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How does someone become Muslim?
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By declaring the shahadah with niyya, intention. No institution approves it and no period of study is required.
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Compare conversion across the three monotheisms.
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Judaism discourages it and is not a missionary religion; Christianity lists evangelism among its practices; Islam requires only the declaration with intention, and the guide asks for percentages of converts.
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What does the guide ask for under gender and religious experience?
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Prayer and pilgrimage, and first-hand accounts by women — including female mystics in Islam.
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