-Follow the qu'ran and the Sunna

-Akikah - informal birth ceremony

-Shadada - young Muslims entry into Islam

- Ramadan - powers of evil are diminished they fast the entire month. Eat at certain times of the day

- practice polygamy- allowed to have more than one wife

-practice male circumcision

Salat- they bow and pray facing towards Mecca throughout different times of the day

Islamic Rituals

a code that they follow their whole lives

1. Testimony of faith

2. Prayer

3. Alms giving

4. Fasting in Ramadan

5. Pilgrimage to Mecca