Group (7) 1 Kelvin Munkuli, Micas Zandamela, and Kelvin Chinyadza World Religions APH 205 Mr. Zangairai 13 April 2024 Islam is perceived as a way of life. Evaluate how the principle practices can help to combat the HIV and AIDs pandemic today. The aim of this paper is to evaluate how principle and practices of Islamic way of life can help to combat the HIV AIDs pandemic today. The paper shall demonstrate how the tradition (the sunnah) of the Prophet Muhammad was regarded as one of the principal Quranic practices among the pre-Islam Arabs and how it became relevant in assisting all spheres of the human life. Further, the paper will emphasize on the 5 pillars principally the duty of zakat (purification or almsgiving) as the most important practice that draws the paper to conclude that it is the case that Muslim practices can help to combat the HIV and AIDs. (Parrinder, World Religions from Ancient History to the present, 1971) take on to account that with the death of Mohammed the Muslims lost the living source of guidance that had been so important in the prophet’s lifetime. The great conquests brought them into close contact with cultures more sophisticated than their own, and confronted them with all the bewildering responsibilities of governing a vast territory. Although the Koran contains a wide variety of rules to regulate specific areas of life, such as a small book could not possibly give definitive guidance for all the new situations which the community now faced (481). (Parrinder, World Religions from Ancient History to the present, 1971) Muslims quickly found it necessary to complement the Koran with other authorities in