Sixth Pillar of Islam Muslims believe there are precisely five pillars of Islam, since in a hadith, Muhammad listed only five major pillars of the faith. Traditionalists say that no sixth pillar should be added, because changing the pillars would be altering the religion and its beliefs, therefore one who believes that there is a sixth pillar is committing a sin. Thus, Sunnis believe that a "six pillar of faith" is outside the folds of mainstream Islam. The sixth pillar of Islam is not included in the Sunni way of life. Also, a minority among Sunni scholars sometimes refers to the duty of jihad
Muslim Association of Sweden Muslim Association of Sweden The Muslim Association of Sweden (, SMF) is Sweden's largest Muslim organisation, which represents around 70,000 Muslims in Sweden, which receives state aid from Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities. In the mid 1980s Mahmoud Aldebe, the chairman of SMF, in conjunction with "Statens invandrarverk" (the former name of the Swedish Migration Agency) he authored the leaflet "Islam in Sweden" (Swedish: "Islam i Sverige") wherein he expresses the view that Islam is an all-encompassing belief system which gives firm instructions which are to be followed in all aspects of daily life: moral, spiritual, political and