Christianity, Islam and Judaism are three of the most influential monotheistic religions in the world today. Amongst the three religions Christianity is the largest religion with the largest amount of 2.3 followers of about followed by Islam with 2billion followers and twelfth, Judaism with approximately 14 million followers (Religion facts). These religions have their similar and different believes and ways of practicising their beliefs but one thing they all have in common is the fact that they
consist of: Shahadah, sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith; Salat, performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day; Zakat, paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy; Sawm, fasting during the month of Ramadan; and Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Each of these pillars are obligations that every Muslim must satisfy in order to live a good and responsible life (Five Pillars of Islam). Muslims must carry out these five pillars to show that they are putting
It is generally accepted that Herman Melville, was influenced by the Calvinistic tradition of New England. Melville presented many pagan aspects in his sixth novel Moby Dick, and even made one of the characters confess that "it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan". Furthermore, in his letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, he wrote that he had written "a wicked book.”. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is a novel rich in symbolism, namely that from a religious stance, during the mid and late nineteenth