Shia'a Islam Facts

Question 1

How many obligatory acts are there?

Answer 1

10

Question 2

What is one?

Answer 2

Prayer (salah)

Question 3

What is the second?

Answer 3

Fasting (sawm)

Question 4

What is the third?

Answer 4

Almsgiving (zakah)

Question 5

What is the fourth?

Answer 5

Pilgrimage (hajj)

Question 6

What is the fifth?

Answer 6

Struggle (jhad)

Question 7

What is the sixth?

Answer 7

Khums- 20 per cent tax on yearly earnings after decution of household expenses

Question 8

What is the seventh?

Answer 8

Directing others towards good/ commanding what is just (Amr-bik-Maroof)

Question 9

Eight?

Answer 9

Forbidding evil (nahi Anil Munkar)

Question 10

Ninth?

Answer 10

Expressing love towards good- those in allah’s path (Tawalla)

Question 11

Tenth?

Answer 11

Expressing hatred/dissociation with those who oppose Allah (Tabarra)

Question 12

Does jihad apply to all Muslims?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

How many of the ten obligatory acts don’t apply to Sunni Islam?

Answer 13

5-10 (last ones)

Question 14

Shia Muslims also believe what should be added on extra to Zakah?

Answer 14

Khums

Question 15

When in the day do Shia muslims pray?

Answer 15

Dawn
Afternoon  (together afternoon and late)
Late afternoon 
Dusk       (Together dusk and night)
Night

Question 16

How often do they pray in a day?

Answer 16

Three times

Question 17

What is a Wuzu?

Answer 17

A room where you clean yourself before going to a mosque

Question 18

Why do you have to use the wuzu? (Quote - eight Inman)

Answer 18

Imam al Ridha (the eight imam) says “so the servant is pure…. purified of filths and impurities and also because it does away with laziness and repels drowsiness and purifies the heart before standing in front of Allah.”

Question 19

What did the first Inman (Inman Ali) day about sawm? (Quote and explanation)

Answer 19

“ bring to mind by your hunger and thirst in Ramadan, the hunger and thirst of judgment day.” This means the purpose of Ramadan is to experience the pain and hunger of the poor, in order to become more generous to the poor

Question 20

What is the purpose of zakah? (Imam Ali)

Answer 20

To test the rich and provide for the poor, and that if all people paid their zakah, no one would be poor anymore

Question 21

What is khums?

Answer 21

20 per cent tax

Question 22

What does the fourth Inman (Inman abedin) say about why you should do hajj?

Answer 22

“Perform