Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BATANGAS
LAIYA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
LAIYA IBABAO, SAN JUAN, BATANGAS

INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGION AND BELIEF SYSTEM

Content Standards):
Examine the brief history, core teachings, fundamental beliefs, practices and related issues of Islam.

STAGE 1: BEGINNING WITH THE END IN MIND

Hey there faithful ones! Welcome to our second quarter, your Expected Outputs (EOs) is a written essay about the
daily life of a Muslim believer.

Essential Question:
At the end of this chapter, you should be able to answer these questions:
1. What is the definition of Islam? (Consider revising.)
2. What are the five pillars of Islam?

Objectives:
You should be able to acquire the following at the end of this chapter:
1. Knowledge on Islam.
2. Relate Islam with present human experiences and practices.

STAGE 2: ACCEPTABLE EVIDENCE OF LEARNING

Your Expected Outputs (Eos) will be graded based on the following criteria:
a. Content (50%) – The student provided imagined life experiences related to the five Pillars of Islam). They may opt to
interview a Muslim or imagine the daily life experience to come up with the required essay.
Guide questions:
1. If you are a new convert to the Islam religion, relate to us the new daily life experience? What are your daily
activities, or
2. Being born in Islam, relate your daily life experiences. How do you spend your day-to-day life? What are the
activities you usually do? Directly relate your daily life based on the five Pillars of Islam.
b. Length (30%) – The students personally wrote the essay within 3 to 6 paragraphs only.
c. Materials (10%) – The students wrote the essay on a colored paper or other recycled/reused materials to show
creativity.
d. Grammar (10%) – Consideration on the use of proper use of the basic sentence constructions like subject-verb
agreement and the use of punctuations.

Be reminded that in this chapter, you will be asked to answer every succeeding activity as part of your formative
assessment.

STAGE 3: THINGS TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND TO GET TO THE END

STAGE 3A: EXPLOREBefore we start with our topic, let us first test your prior knowledge about Islam.

Identify ten (10) idea or words that pertain or being used in Islam religion. Draw a big a crescent shape on a separate sheet of
paper. Write your answers inside the crescent shape. There are rows that contain only 2 words, some 3, another with only 1.

a. Imam b. Jihad c. Shalom d. Orthodox

e. Cathedral f. temple g. Chapel h. Mosque

i. Genocide j. Torah k. Haji l. Ramadan

m. YHWH n. Jehovah o. al Adha p. Allah

q. Sunnie r. Shiited s. Islam t. Kosher

Activity:
Using your prior knowledge, answer the following question. It is not necessary to give correct answers; this is only to
assess what you already know about this particular religion. Limit your answer to 2 or 3 sentences only.

1. What do you think makes Islam unique from any other religion.?
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STAGE 3B: FIRM UP

ISLAM

Islam is one of the fastest growing world religions today. It is the oldest recorded monotheistic religion in
the country. Revealed to humanity by the Prophet Muhammad, those who follow Islam are called Muslims.
They believe that there is only one God--Allah.

Islam is the second most widespread religion, next to Christianity. Like Judaism and Christianity, there are
variations within Islam. The two major divisions of Islam are the Sunnites and the Shiites (Gordon, 1991,
6,8). The study of Islam is important because it is about the message from God revealed from within the
Abrahamic tradition from which Judaism and Christianity came from. Islam seems to be the third and the final
revelation of the Abrahamic monotheistic tradition and it constitutes the third and major branch of
monotheism. It is, therefore, a religion that somehow necessitates the study of the whole religious family to
which Jews and Christian belongs.

Islam considers itself as the final and definitive revelation in the history of humanity. It believes that
there will not be any other revelation until the end of human history as it is described in the final chapters of
the Qur’an, which is the verbatim word of God in the Islamic tradition. Muhammad is the Prophet of Islam.
And he is often referred to as the ‘Seal of Prophets’; he is the last prophet. Islam considers itself as the final
revelation in the chain of prophecy that begins with Adam, who they consider as the father of humankind and
also as the first prophet. “There is in fact but a single religion, that of Divine Unity, which has constituted the
heart of all messages from heaven and which Islam has come to assert in its final form. The Islamic message
is none other than the acceptance of God as the One and submission to Him, which results in peace; hence
the name of Islam means surrender to the Will of The One God, and He is called Allah in Arabic” (Nasr 1993,
428).

To become a Muslim, it is enough to profess the faith before two Muslim witnesses that ”There is no god
but God” (la ilaha illa’Llah) and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. These constitute the core of the
Islamic message. The Qur’an emphasizes the doctrine of the Unity and Oneness of God. Allah is not a tribal
or ethnic god but the supreme Divine Principle in the Arabic language; Allah is translatable to God. As the
final religion of humanity, Islam is the last divinely orchestrated response of a yes to the pre-eternal divine
question, the response that constitutes the very definition of being human (Nasr 1993, 430).

Islam signifies also the return to primordial religion. It is not based on a particular historical event or an
ethnic group bit on a universal and primordial truth, which has therefore always been and will always be.
Islam is a return not only to the religion of a single people, as is seen in the case of Judaism, or a single event
of human history, as one observed in the prevalent purely historical view of the incarnation in Christian
theology (Nasr 1993).

The Qur’an, sacred text of Islam, is believed to be the literal Word of Allah. They begin learning it at an early
age; the Qur’an is read to Babies, and toddlers who can already speak to memorize and recite Qur’anic verses.
They learn to write by copying verses of the Qur’an by hand. People who manage to memorize the book are
held in high regard by the communities. Since the Qur’an is written in Arabic, the language is respected by
the Muslims. For them, the book is a unique event in the history of humankind, held as eternal and
unchangeable, just like Allah (Gordon 1991,44-45).
Five Pillars of Islam

The five pillars of Islam are the foundations of the Islamic faith. They follow and practice these pillars as
mentioned in the Qur’an.

1. Shahadah- (Creed). This creed summarizes the faith of a Muslim. It is the first sentence whispered into the

ears of an infant and they recite it in their daily prayer.

2. Salah- Muslims pray five times a day (before dawn, midday, midafternoon, sunset, and nighttime).

3. Sawm- Fasting on Ramadan.

4. Zakat- (Charity)

5. Hajj- (Pilgrimage to Mecca)

Checkpoint: Let us see if you remember what you have just read. Try to find the five pillars of Islam. Encircle
them.

Z S A L A H A B
K H X I M A N H
R A G T Q J A A
H H S Y W J 0 R
F A S T I N G I
G D D H U A M T
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R H M W A S N S

Quiz. Multiple Choice. Choose the best answer. Write the word of the correct answer on the space provided
before each number.

_____________1. This refers to the Muslim church or place for worship.

A. chapel B. cathedral C. mosque D. temple

_____________2. The sacred text of Islam.

 A. Bible B. Torah C. talith D. Qur’an

_____________3. The Islamic practice of pilgrimage to Mecca

A. Ramadan B. Mihrab C. Hajj D. Hijra

_____________4. The literally means “submission.”

A. Islam B. Sunni C. Shiite D. Sufi

_____________5. The second most widespread religion in the world.

A. Christianity B. Judaism C. Islam D. Hinduism

_____________6. The Arabic for God.

A. Al Adha B. YHWH C. Jehovah D. Allah

_____________7. He is the seal of the Prophets.

A. Jesus B. Moses C. Muhammad D. Buddha

_____________8. The Muslim Creed.

A. Shahadah B. Salat C. Zakat D. Sawm

_____________9. The Muslim Prayer.

A. Shahadah B. Salat C. Zakat D. Sawm

_____________10. The head cover of Muslim women.

A. scarf B. veil C. harim D. hijab

STAGE 3C: DEEPEN
Women in Islam

The prophet Mohammed established for the rights of women in a culture that restricted many rights of
their rights. He forbade infanticide and saved many baby girls from death. He limited to four the number of
wives a man could have and demanded that they be treated equally. He considered women and men equal in
basic rights. Mohammed legislated that wives as well as husbands could initiate divorce, and demanded that a
wife should receive financial support. Lastly, he prescribed the basic religious duties of prayer, fasting and
pilgrimage to Mecca for both women and men. Despite major social distinctions between men and women. For
example, while men may have four wives, a woman can only have one. More, while the Qur’an demands
everybody to dress modestly in public, social custom demands that women alone must cover their hair, and
for some, the veiling of a woman’s face. While men must wear the robe Abraham had in the pilgrimage, there
is no such prescription for women. Neither are women allowed to pray in the mosque with men at the Friday
prayer, but if they do, they have a separate section. Women primarily play a domestic role. Public life is
reserved for men.

Quite recently, some women’s rights advocates find certain passages in the Qur’an distressing. Like in Sura
4 (Women”) we read the statement, “Men have authority over women because God has made the one
superior to the other.” Critics also point out that before Islam, women derive security from their tribe or clan,
and they already have independent property rights and the right to initiate divorce.

In this case, there are two visible directions. On the one hand, the practice of covering the hair with scarf
(hijab) is spreading in some countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. On the other hand,
contemporary thinking in Muslim countries now makes it possible for women to receive public education, and a
growing number have careers and roles in public life. What do you think about Islam’s understanding of
women?

Questions:
1. Is there (really) gender equality among Islamic men and women? Explain your answer in 2 to 3 sentences
only. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Complete the phrase “In my opinion, there is equality between Muslim men and women becasuse…” or
__________________”In my opinion, there is no equality between Muslim men and women
because…”________________________________________________________________________________

Ability to reason and Ability to reason and Ability to reason and Ability to reason and Answers which lack
or argue based on or argue based on or argue based on or argue based on the evidence of the
facts. Ability to facts. Ability to facts. Ability to facts. first four criteria.
express opinion with express opinion with express opinion with
correct grammar. correct grammar. correct grammar.
Answered directly Answered directly
and relevant to the and relevant to the
topic . written topic .
answers neatly

10 points 9 points 8 points 7 points 6 points

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Your answer will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Brain Break. Woah, that must be tiring and exhausting! Anyway, if you have not had your dinner yet, let me give you a special
task by you, becoming a helping hand. Go ahead and help in preparing your meal! Help in cooking or preparing the plates and
utensil on your table or prepare the rice and your ulam for the night. It’s super simple yet you will be satisfied after helping out!

STAGE 3D: TRANSFER

Welcome to the last part of this module, creative writer! As mentioned in Stage 1, your Expected Output (EO) is an
essay you will write on a

Your EO will be graded based on the following criteria: Your EOs will be graded based on the following criteria:
e. Content (50%) – The student provided imagined life experiences based on presented facts and information with a
particular religion in focus (referring particularly with the five Pillars of Islam). They may opt to interview a Muslim or
imagine the daily life experience to come up with the required essay.
Guide question:
1. If you are a new convert to the Islam religion, relate to us the new daily life experience? What are your daily
activities? Or…
2. Being born in an Islam religion, relate you daily life experiences. How do you spend with your day-to-day life? What
are the activities you usually do?

f. Length (25%) – The students personally wrote the essay with in 4 to 7 paragraph only.

g. Materials (15%) – The students wrote the essay on a colored paper and recycled materials which exhibited creativity.

h. Grammar (10%) – Consideration on the use of proper use of the basic sentence constructions which focus on
subject-verb agreement and the use of punctuations.

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And you are done! Congratulations for finishing our lesson for the period! Should you have questions or
clarifications, please do not hesitate to reach your teacher through the following:
 Gmail: gabriel.pena@deped.gov.ph
Celphone # 09995875114 / or through our class messenger .

References

Cornelio, J. S. et al. , Introduction to WorId Religion and BeIief System. 2016, Rex Printing, Company, Inc.

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Prepared by:

GABRIEL H. PEÑA
Teacher II

Checked for Content:

JULIET J. SILANG
Teacher III

Checked for Language:

MELVIN L. VIAÑA
Teacher III

Approved by:

JOSEPHINE D. ROSALES
Principal III