Islam

Question 1

Name the six articles of faith - Sunni

Answer 1

1) tawhid - oneness of god risalah - prophethood
2) belief in angels
3) belief in books
4) belief in messengers
5) akhirah - afterlife
6) al’qadr - predestination

Question 2

Name the five roots of usual ad din

Answer 2

1) al-tawhid - oneness of God
2) al-adl - belief in divine justice
3) al-nubuwwah - belief in prophethood
4) al-imamah - belief in imams
5) al-ma’am - belief in day of resurrection

Question 3

Who did Sunni Muslims appoint as the successor of Muhammad after he died

Answer 3

Abu bakr - ali was the 4th caliph

Question 4

What do imams in Shia tradition do?

Answer 4

They preserve the religion
Interpret the shariah law by Allah and explain issues arising from it
Protected from committing sin

Question 5

What is the Sunna and Hadith of the prophet?

Answer 5

Sunna - what Muhammad did

Hadith - what he said

Question 6

Muslim school of thought ‘Jabariyyah’ on predestination

Answer 6

There is no free will

All human actions are determined by Allah

Question 7

Shia Muslims on predestination

Answer 7

Allah has knowledge of all things
Partial free will
Allah can change anything he wants
He changed the number of nights musa worshipped from 30 nights to 40 nights before he received the tawrat

Question 8

Muslim school of thought ‘mu’tazilah’

Answer 8

Humans have free will
Fate determined by Allah on DOJ
Allahs divine justice is absolute - no mercy

Question 9

Sunni on predestination

Answer 9

From 120 days in the womb , wage/gender/heaven is recorded
Decisions from free will
Allah already knows

Question 10

What are the 5 pillars?

Answer 10

Shahadah 
Salah 
Zakah 
Sawm
Hajj

Question 11

Furu’al din

Answer 11

Khums
Jihad - struggle to live in the way god wants
Amr-bil-mahoof - promoting good actions
Nani anil Munkar - forbidding what is wrong
Tawalla - expressing love towards god
Tabarra - expressing disassociation towards evil

Question 12

What is ihram

Answer 12

A state of holiness Muslims have to be in before hajj

• washed
• wearing white

Question 13

What is tawaf

Answer 13

Circling the Kaaba 7 times

Question 14

What is sa’y

Answer 14

The two hills Hagar ran between searching for water

Question 15

Order of hajj

Answer 15

Kaaba 
Mina - pray
Arafat - forgiveness of sins 
Muzdalifah 
Mina - stoning 
Kaaba

Question 16

What is eid ul adha

Answer 16

Festival of sacrifice 
Remembers Ibrahim's sacrifice 
- get change 
- prayers 
- celebrate 
- slaughtered 1/3 kept, 1/3 family, 1/3 poor

Question 17

What is eid ul fitr

Answer 17

End of Ramadan festival

• pay zakah ul fitr - atone mistakes made during fast
• spot the moon
• morning prayers
• celebrate
• remember the dead
• thankful

Question 18

Eid ul ghadeer

Answer 18

• the day Muhammad delivered his last sermon
• appointed Ali
• the verse of announcement was revealed to him whilst travelling to medinah
• set up a tent for Ali to sit in whilst Muslims came and pledged their alliance to him

Question 19

How is eid ul ghadeer celebrated

Answer 19

• take a bath
• pray
• reaffirm their commitment to Ali
• celebrations

Question 20

What is ashura

Answer 20

Sunni
- the day nuh left the arc
- the day musa was saved
Shia
- remember the martyrdom of Hussayn
- they whip themselves - helps them on the DOJ
- hussayn- a symbol of struggle against injustice and oppression

Question 21

Greater jihad

Answer 21

The personal spiritual struggle to follow allahs teachings

• overcome greed and jealousy
• reward = paradise

Question 22

Lesser jihad

Answer 22

The struggle to build up a good Muslim society and defend against oppression