Most Hausa are devoted to the Islamic faith. They worship Allah and believe in the prophets Mohammed. They can pray up to five times a day and read the Holy Scriptures, fast during the month of Ramadan, and give a lot of money to the poor. There are some Hausa people that do not follow Islam, they are called Maguzawa and they worship nature spirits called bori or iskoki. Their religious behavior affects their everyday life like how they dress, art, house types, laws, and rite of passages.  

The Hausa rite of passage is different than other cultures. A week after a child is born they are appointed personhood and aren't given a name until the Islamic naming ceremony. The boys and girls must learn the Qu'ranic scripture by the age of 13. In their teens, they can get married and the ceremony lasts for about a week with the  bride and groom's parents contracting the marriage according to the Islamic law and then the couple can officially be married with a small celebration. When a Hausa dies, they take them, wash them, wrap them in shroud and bury them facing eastward toward the Islamic holy land of Mecca. (shroud: a cloth that usually wraps and item to protect it)