religious obligation
Faith-mandated requirement
A religious obligation is a duty imposed by one's faith—something believers must do or avoid to remain in good standing with their religion or deity.
Examples include attending services, observing dietary laws, fasting during holy periods, or performing pilgrimage.
She felt a religious obligation to care for her aging parents.
The phrase sometimes appears in legal contexts when someone seeks exemption from secular requirements: He cited religious obligation to avoid military service.
- scripture studyExamining religious texts
- daily prayerRecurring religious observance
- almsgivingGiving to the needy
- prayerAddress to deity
- Sunday massWeekly Christian worship gathering
repentance · fasting · dietary laws · Sabbath observance · honesty · charity · good works · hospitality · moral duty · communion · baptism · confession of sins · sacrifice · hajj · chastity · asceticism · pilgrimage · ritual purity
- RamadanRamadan, iftar, fasting, holy month, breaking fast
- circumcisioncircumcision, brit milah, bris, foreskin, mohel
- Islamic funeralsburial, shroud, funeral prayer, ritual washing, shrouding
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
religious obligationcivic duty
Obligation owed to community
legal requirement · social obligation · professional duty · contractual obligation · state mandate
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Violation of divine law
taboo · forbidden act · haram · proscription · interdiction
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