Sawm = fasting from dawn until dusk during Ramadan, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Salat = the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Hajj = the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which every adult Muslim must make at least once in his or her lifetime.
Zakat = is a form of obligatory charity that has the potential to ease the suffering of millions
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D. The body of government officials (except elected officials and judges) selected to help run the government.
Civil servants are those persons who are employed by the government to run the programs of the city, state or country. The United States Department of State describes what work as a civil service professional for the State Department is like: "Working in Washington, D.C., or other cities throughout the United States, you’ll work on everything from improving trade opportunities for U.S. businesses, to helping American couples adopt children from overseas, to monitoring human rights issues." On a more local level, civil service workers might be those employed by your local branch of the US Postal Service, or the workers at your local Department of Motor Vehicles office, etc.
<span>One reason that native-born americans felt more threatened by the "new" immigrants than they had by the "old" immigrants was that the "new" immigrants brought different cultures and languages. These Nativists believed they were the true “Native” Americans, despite being descended from immigrants.</span>
The main reason why the United States involved itself in a civil dispute on the Korean peninsula in the 1950s was "<span>to exercise the policy of containment," since they were attempting to stop the spread of communism. </span>
