Class 9: Overview of Islam Flashcards
What are the scriptures in Islam?
The Quran, which contains Suras
What is the context that Islam came from?
- Before Islam is known as the “time of ignorance”
- Contrasting context between: Jewish/Christian monotheism and Greco-Roman & pagan polytheism
- Modern day Saudi Arabia
What is the cosmology of Islam?
Monotheistic
What are the notions of the self in Islam?
Personal, eternal
Who are the central figures of Islam?
- Muhammad: the prophet/founder
- God is known as Allah
- Lineage back to figures from Jewish and Christian context
- Khadija, Muhammad’s wife
What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
- Shahada: Faith (Profession of Faith)
- Salah: Prayer (5 times a day)
- Sawm: Fasting (Ramadan)
- Zakat: Almsgiving (Charity)
- Hajj: Pilgrimage (Visiting the temple)
What are the views of the afterlife in Islam?
Heaven is paradise, and Hell is eternal suffering and torture.
- 7 levels of Heaven, highest level is where Allah rests. You want to reach the top level
What is the Angel of Death in Islam?
- Brings your soul to see Allah
- Allah makes his judgement on your life
- Your soul returns to your body
- You get a preview of your afterlife which you have to sit with until the Final Day
What is the Final Judgement in Islam?
When you are judged, you are not judged in isolation but rather in front of everyone, where every thought and action you had/did in life is revealed
What is Hadith?
The teachings of the prophet and writings about his life, used in alignment with the Quran
What are Hanifs?
Pre-Islamic monotheistics - Muhammad was considered one before Islamic faith
What is Jinn?
- Live a parallel life to us
- Made of smoke and fire
- Made by God
- Come from pre-Islamic folklore, however they are mentioned in the Quran a lot
- Able to interact with humans
What does omnipotent mean?
God is all powerful
What does omnipresent mean?
God is everywhere, God is present in the world all of the time
What does omniscient mean?
God is all knowing
