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Key Beliefs In Islam Flashcards

1
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How many articles of faith do Sunni Muslims have?

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Six

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How many articles of faith do Shi’a Muslims have?

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Five

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What are the six articles of faith in Sunni Islam?

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Tawhid 
Malaikah
The Holy Books
Nubuwwah
Day of Judgement
Predestination- Al Qadr
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What are the five articles of faith in Shi’a Islam?

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Tawhid
Adalat
Nubuwwah
Imamah 
Ma’ad
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What is tawhid?

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The belief that allah is the one and only god

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6
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What is malaikah?

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The belief in angels

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7
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What is nubuwwah?

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The belief in Allah’s prophets

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What is predestination?

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The belief that Allah knows and decides everything that’s going to happen

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What is adalat?

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The belief in divine justice

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What is imamah?

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The belief in the authority of imams

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What is ma’ad?

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The belief in the day of resurrection

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12
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How are Sunni Muslims guided?

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They are guided by the consensus of the community (majority view)

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“Say, ‘He …

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is Allah, [who is] one’.”

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14
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What is Shirk?

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believing in other Gods as well as Allah, or that anyone or thing could share in Allah’s oneness

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15
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“Allah does not forgive…

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association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that”

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16
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“Let the first thing to which…

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you will invite them, be the Tawhid of Allah”

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17
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What is the worst sin in Islam?

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Shirk

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18
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Define Merciful

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Allah has mercy and compassion

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19
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Define Omnipotent

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all powerful

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20
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Define Omnibeneveltent

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all loving and good

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21
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Define Omniscient

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all knowing

22
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Define Omnipresent

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always present

23
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Define Just

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Allah will judge peoples behavior in a fair way

24
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Define Immanent

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Allah is present and involved in the world, he is close to every human and knows them

25
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Define Transcendent

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Allah is beyond the world and above everything

26
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Give a quote to show that Allah is immanent

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“We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein”

27
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What is risalah?

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The concept of messengership- they way Allah communicates with humans

28
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What does Allah use angels for?

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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)

29
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What does Rasuls mean?

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Prophets

30
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How many prophets are mentioned in the Qur’an?

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25

31
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There is believed to have been how many prophets at one point?

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124,000

32
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A quote to show the equality of all prophets

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“We make no distinction between any of them”

33
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How did prophets prove that they were prophets?

A

They performed miracles

34
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Adam was the first…

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prophet and man

35
Q

Give 5 propehts

A 
Ibrahim
Isma'il
Musa
Dawud
Isa
Muhammad
36
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Adam was sent to earth after doing what?

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Eating forbidden fruit

37
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Who was thought to have built the Ka’aba

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Firstly Adam, then Ibrahim rebuilt it

38
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why was Musa important?

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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

39
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Define Surah

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chapters

40
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How many surahs is the Qur’an organised into?

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114

41
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How are the surahs organised?

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in order of length

42
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How do Muslims treat the Qur’an?

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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

43
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What are the four holy books, other than the Qur’an?

A

Suhuf Ibrahim
Tawrat (Torah)
Zabur (Psalms)
Injil

44
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Out of all five holy books, which one has not been edited and is still in its original form?

A

the qur’an

45
Q

Give a quote describing the torah…

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“We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light”

46
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What is Sunnah?

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The sunnah sets out Muhammad’s way of life, as recorded in the hadith and gives Muslims guidance for their own lives

47
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What is The Hadith?

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The hadith are reports of Muhammad’s words and actions recorded by his followers and gives Muslims guidence for their own lives

48
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Define hadith

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sayings

49
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Shi’a Muslims also follow the hadith of what?

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The imams, especially those of Ali

50
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What does the Torah contain?

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The “judgement of Allah”

The ten commandments

R.S: Islam (8 decks)

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