title: Shia Islamic beliefs and practices
text: # Shia Islamic beliefs and practices
  
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  The beliefs and practices of Twelver Shia Islam are categorised into:
  
  * Theology or Roots of the Religion - five beliefs
  * Ancillaries of the Faith or Branches of the Religion - ten practices
  
  ## Theological principles
  
  * Tawhid - the Oneness of God
  * Adl "divine justice"
  * Nubuwwah "prophethood"
  * Imamate "leadership of Mankind"
  * Mi'ad "Resurrection" of the dead
  
  ## The Ancillaries of the Faith
  
  * Salat "ritual prayer"
  * Sawm "Fasting" during the month of Ramadan
  * Hajj "pilgrimage" to Mecca
  * Zakāt - charitable giving
  * Khums - a "Fifth" of specific kinds of income given to charity
  * Jihad "struggle"
  * Commanding right and forbidding wrong
  * Forbidding what is evil
  * Tawalla - love of faith and the chosen of God
  * Tabarra - disassociation from enemies of the faith and God's chosen.
  