Key Beliefs In Islam Flashcards
How many articles of faith do Sunni Muslims have?
Six
How many articles of faith do Shi’a Muslims have?
Five
What are the six articles of faith in Sunni Islam?
Tawhid Malaikah The Holy Books Nubuwwah Day of Judgement Predestination- Al Qadr
What are the five articles of faith in Shi’a Islam?
Tawhid Adalat Nubuwwah Imamah Ma’ad
What is tawhid?
The belief that allah is the one and only god
What is malaikah?
The belief in angels
What is nubuwwah?
The belief in Allah’s prophets
What is predestination?
The belief that Allah knows and decides everything that’s going to happen
What is adalat?
The belief in divine justice
What is imamah?
The belief in the authority of imams
What is ma’ad?
The belief in the day of resurrection
How are Sunni Muslims guided?
They are guided by the consensus of the community (majority view)
“Say, ‘He …
is Allah, [who is] one’.”
What is Shirk?
believing in other Gods as well as Allah, or that anyone or thing could share in Allah’s oneness
“Allah does not forgive…
association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that”
“Let the first thing to which…
you will invite them, be the Tawhid of Allah”
What is the worst sin in Islam?
Shirk
Define Merciful
Allah has mercy and compassion
Define Omnipotent
all powerful
Define Omnibeneveltent
all loving and good
Define Omniscient
all knowing
Define Omnipresent
always present
Define Just
Allah will judge peoples behavior in a fair way
Define Immanent
Allah is present and involved in the world, he is close to every human and knows them
Define Transcendent
Allah is beyond the world and above everything
Give a quote to show that Allah is immanent
“We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein”
What is risalah?
The concept of messengership- they way Allah communicates with humans
What does Allah use angels for?
Allah’s compassion means he cant leave people to sin without helping them, so he send messages about how to live a good life via angels to his prophets (rasuls)
What does Rasuls mean?
Prophets
How many prophets are mentioned in the Qur’an?
25
There is believed to have been how many prophets at one point?
124,000
A quote to show the equality of all prophets
“We make no distinction between any of them”
How did prophets prove that they were prophets?
They performed miracles
Adam was the first…
prophet and man
Give 5 propehts
Ibrahim Isma'il Musa Dawud Isa Muhammad
Adam was sent to earth after doing what?
Eating forbidden fruit
Who was thought to have built the Ka’aba
Firstly Adam, then Ibrahim rebuilt it
why was Musa important?
He is the only prophet Allah spoke to directly and he kept trying to guide people to believing in one god even when they worshiped other
Define Surah
chapters
How many surahs is the Qur’an organised into?
114
How are the surahs organised?
in order of length
How do Muslims treat the Qur’an?
They keep it wrapped up to keep it clean
They wash their hands before touching it
They keep it on a higher shelf than all other books
They place it on a special stand when they read it
What are the four holy books, other than the Qur’an?
Suhuf Ibrahim
Tawrat (Torah)
Zabur (Psalms)
Injil
Out of all five holy books, which one has not been edited and is still in its original form?
the qur’an
Give a quote describing the torah…
“We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light”
What is Sunnah?
The sunnah sets out Muhammad’s way of life, as recorded in the hadith and gives Muslims guidance for their own lives
What is The Hadith?
The hadith are reports of Muhammad’s words and actions recorded by his followers and gives Muslims guidence for their own lives
Define hadith
sayings
Shi’a Muslims also follow the hadith of what?
The imams, especially those of Ali
What does the Torah contain?
The “judgement of Allah”
The ten commandments
