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sehri partaking of food at dawn before the start of the fast. Shaikh Bayazid Bustami also Bayazid Bastami (804-874 AD); Persian Sufi saint. shirk association of partners with God. Sufi a practitioner of Sufism. Sufism a branch of Islam, defined by adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. sulh Arabic for reconciliation. Sunnah practice and teachings of Prophet Muhammad. tawheed Monotheism or the oneness of God. Thamud People of ancient Arabia that lived during the first millenium BC. The prophet Salih was sent by God to guide them. Zakat the obligatory alms tax, one of the five basic tenets of Islam. Zakat-al-Fitr Zakat tax specifically related to the month of Ramazan to be given before the Eid prayer. Final Destination Man considers himself free in the present world. He thinks of everything he has as his own property. But when death comes it will dawn on him, all of a sudden, that he had just been fooling himself: he had been given freedom as a test whereas he had thought it was his right; he had taken what was God’s to be his own; he was responsible to God for his actions, but he lived under the misapprehension that, whatever he did, he would never be taken to task for it.