mid term exam 2024-2025 Flashcards by Aminah Amine

Name (of wali iA) taking exam:

Aminah

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What is the pneumonic for the 10 diseases of the heart?

(G)o: (G)luttony
(S)it: (S)ins of tongue
(A)nd: (A)nger
(E)at: (E)nvy
(G.): (G)reed
(P’)s: love of (P)opularity
(D)elicious:love of (D)unya
(A)pple: (A)rrogance
(V)anille: (V)anity
(O)atmeal: (O)stentation

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What is the pneumonic for the 10 vitals of the heart?

(R)un: (R)epentance
(F)rom: (F)ear of god
(D.): (D)unya (D)etachment
(P’s): (P)atience
(G)ourmet: (G)ratitude
(S)paghetti: (S)incerity
(R)esteraunt: (R)eliance
(L)ike: (L)ove of alllah
(C)razy: (C)ontentment
(R)aindeer: (R)emembering death

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What is the hadith in Arabic/English for gluttony?

ما ملأ إبن آدم وعاء شراٌ من بطنه
No child of adam has ever filled a vessal worse than his stomach

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What is the hadith in Arabic/English for the tongue?

من صمت نجى
Who ever is silent is saved

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What are the 7 secret benefits of hunger?

1.Window to basirah
2.feel sweetness of god
3. hunger brakes the nafs
4.diffaculty is the door to heaven
5.breaking body of sin
6.lightening the body for tahajud
7.they can be content with little

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What is an objective way to know one is hungry or not hungry?

If you can eat bread without wanting sause

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What is the best sauce? Why?

hunger because it makes everything good

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What are the 5 sins of the tongue?

1.Arguing
2.backbiting
3.mockery
4.flattery
5.lying

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What are the exceptions to lying?

1.to bring 2 people to gether
2.war

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What is the definition of backbiting in Arabic & English?

ذكرك أخاك بما يكره
remembering your brother in a wa y he doesnt like

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Ghibah can be more subtle than a black ant on a black rock in a black night. What does this mean?

it could be so subtle that you yourself dont notice

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Share 3 subtle ways we can backbite.

1.eyes
2.thikr
2. jestures

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What are the exceptions to backbiting?

seeking advice
2.

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Is the person that hears backbiting a backbiter?

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Is the person that hears backbiting a backbiter?

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What should a person do if they backbit someone else?

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Write a hadith in Arabic & English about arguing?

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Who wins an argument? Why?

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Joking should be like dessert. What does this mean?

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How can flattery be harmful to the one saying it and hearing it?

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According to the hadith, what should we do to the one who flatter us? In Arabic & English

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What did Imam Ali (R) say as a dua when hearing praise?

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Write a hadith about anger (Arabic & English).

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What are some ways to extinguish anger according to our Islamic tradition?

What is the dua we say to someone getting married?

What is the meaning of “forbearance” in Arabic and English?

What are the 3 levels of envy and explain? What’s the Arabic word for level 1?

What are the causes of envy?

Why is envy so disrespectful to Allah?

What is the cure to envy?

How do we protect ourselves from envy? List at least 3 ways.

What is the hadith about the 3 Destroyers in Arabic and English?

What is the hadith about the miserable one?!

What are the cures for greed?

What are the 4 awakenings?

What is the definition of “Love of Popularity”?

What is the cure for love of popularity?

What is the hadith about the disheveled dusty man?!

Describe the difference between the two types of people: Hasbi & Hisabi. How do you become each one?

What did Mawlana Rumi say about becoming sad?

What is the hadith about this dunya being a home for the homeless?

What is the hadith describing the relationship between dunya and akhira?

What does “make it transferable” mean?

What is an analogy about this dunya distracting us?

What portion of the Qur’an demeans dunya and its people?

What is ostentation in Arabic? What is the definition?

What is the verse in the Qur’an that talks about feeding people for the sake of Allah and not seeking their thanks?!

What are 6 different categories of ostentation?

When do we need to get rid of ostentation?

What is the cure to ostentation?

What does tawba mean linguistically and technically

What is a hadith about tawba and repentance in Arabic and English?

What is another hadith in Arabic and English about all the children of Adam?

How many times did our Prophet Muhammad (S) repent each day?

We have 4 internal components – what are they?

What is the epitome of stupidity?

What are the 5 levels of tawba and what are they repenting from?

What are 3 causes for not doing tawba?

What is an analogy about tawba?

How are minor sins amplified?

What is a hadith about the fear of Allah?

What are the three stages of life in relation to balancing fear and hope?

What are two ways to develop fear of Allah?

What is the definition of zuhd?

What is a hadith in Arabic and English about zuhd?

What are the 4 levels of zuhd?

What is an analogy related to zuhd?

What are 3 levels of motivation?

What is the definition of “patience”?

What are the 5 categories of patience?

What are the 3 levels of patience?

What is that magnificent hadith about patience and how everything is good for the believer?!

Fill this in: If I find good (correct response): If i find good (incorrect response): if i find bad (correct response): If i find bad (incorrect response):

If you complain: ____________________________________________________________. If you thank: _______________________________________________________________.

What are the 3 ways we show gratitude?

What is Allah’s name that relates to gifts?

What are 2 definitions of shukr in Arabic and English?

What is the phrase that talks about small actions and big actions?

What is the hadith in Arabic and English about tying the camel?

What are 2 ways we can check our intentions are for Allah?

What is the definition of tawakkul?

What is the hadith in English about the bird getting food?

How is one able to get tawakkul?

Why is one unable to get tawakkul?

Why did our Prophet Muhammad (S) make dua the night before Badr even though he was promised victory?

What are the 3 analogies related to the levels of tawakkul?

How does tawakkul relate to surah Kahf?

Hadith: Whoever loves to meet Allah: __________________________________________. Whoever disliked to meet Allah: _______________________________________________

What are 5 signs of loving Allah?!

What’s higher, patience or contentment? Why?

What are 3 proofs that it’s possible to be content through hardships? Please provide an example of each.

What is a hadith in Arabic and English about contentment?

If someone remembers the nearness of death, what does that do to love of dunya?

What is a hadith in Arabic and English about remembering death?

What are two benefits for remembering the nearness of death?

Is death an ending or beginning? Explain

What is the cause of not remembering the nearness of death?

What are 3 pains of the afterlife?