How to Use Islam in a Sentence

Islam

noun

• Hezbollah is a group from the Shia branch of Islam, while Hamas is Sunni.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• The holiday marks the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month of fasting.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Fasting during the month is one of Islam's five pillars.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In Islam, salvation is earned through one’s own hard work.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
• The task is just to see us as regular and not being defined by Islam or the Middle East or some sort of war.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 25 May 2023
• The holiday marks the end of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month.
  — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
• Toward the end of the compilation the men are asked if killing women and children is allowed in Islam.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Sweden attempted to ban the public burning of Islam’s holy book, but a court overturned the ban.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 5 July 2023
• Al Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam, located in an area also sacred to Jews.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• In Islam, Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed as a guide for humanity.
  — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Ghannam worked as an eighth grade English teacher at a school in the area, Islam added, declining to give his own last name for fear of reprisals.
  — Isabel Debre The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam, and Muslims are expected to make the pilgrimage at least once in their lives.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• Making the pilgrimage at least once is one of the Five Pillars of Islam — the mandatory acts of faith required of all Muslims.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 21 June 2024
• The body is wrapped in a biodegradable shroud and placed directly into the earth in compliance with Islam practice.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The group traces its history to a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam in the late 1990s.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Nihad Awad: Islam has been part of this country even before its founding.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
• The recitation of Islam’s dawn prayers droned softly from a nearby mosque, and somewhere nearby, a rooster began to crow.
  — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Why the birthplace of Islam is hosting one of the world's biggest raves Normalization continues to be a taboo among Arab publics.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 19 June 2023
• In court, Halim confessed to the crime but maintained that neither Aziz nor Islam were involved.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• In previous years, demonstrators against Islam were met with protests and the hurling of objects in a couple of cases, but there were none this time.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2024
• The restaurant has since expanded to include other Asian cuisines, with plans to open more locations in the Charlotte area, although Islam is still on the hunt for the right spots.
  — Mari Pressley, Charlotte Observer, 20 June 2024
• For decades, nearly all of the tourists who entered Saudi Arabia were pilgrims going to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam.
  — Vivian Nereim Iman Al-Dabbagh, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• In Pakistan, meat biryani is more common — but never pork, which is forbidden in Islam.
  — Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, NPR, 8 June 2024
• The members of the mosque are a mix of converts to Islam and immigrants and refugees from Middle Eastern countries who have woven themselves into the fabric of the city.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• What will happen when people are no longer humiliated and threatened in the name of Islam?
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• For decades, nearly all the tourists who entered Saudi Arabia were pilgrims going to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam.
  — Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The boy strained to decipher a babel of tongues as foreign recruits crowded into the camp, named Medina for one of Islam’s most holy cities.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• This is far from Denmark’s first brush with controversy surrounding the boundaries of free speech and Islam.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• According to the Taliban’s own strict interpretation of Islam, a woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading out loud.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
• Some of those spice-trade merchants also brought with them Islam and, as some settled on the islands of Java and Sumatra, the religion gradually blended with local animist beliefs.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024