Beliefs and Practices: Islam

Question 1

What are the basic beliefs and practices of Islam outlined in?

Answer 1

The doctrine of the Five Pillars

Question 2

What does the Five Pillars summarize?

Answer 2

The general principles the constitute Muslim creed and practices.

Question 3

With the exception of the first, the five pillars are all rites of___.

Answer 3

worship

Question 4

What summarizes the whole concept of Islamic theology?

Answer 4

the give pillars

Question 5

True or false: regardless of Islamic sect, Muslims all share the five pillars.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

What are the Five Pillars?

Answer 6

1. Shahada
2. Salat
3. Fasting
4. Zakat
5. Hajj

Question 7

What is Pillar 1, Shahada?

Answer 7

The declaration of God’s oneness and the prophetic mission of Muhammad.

Question 8

What is Pillar 2, Salat?

Answer 8

The five daily prayers

Question 9

What is Pillar 3, Fasting?

Answer 9

In the month of Ramadan on the Islamic lunar calendar.

Question 10

What is Pilar 4, Zakat?

Answer 10

Sharing one’s wealth with the less fortunate.

Question 11

What is Pillar 5, Hajj?

Answer 11

The performance of pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime.

Question 12

What does Shahada mean?

Answer 12

“testimony,” “witness”

Question 13

What is the following from: “I bear witness there is no god but God, and I also bear witness Muhammad is His messenger.”

Answer 13

Shahada

Question 14

What are some of the roles of Shahada?

Answer 14

Parents whisper it in the ear of they knew born children, on their deathbed, Muslims re expected to utter shahada for the last time.

Question 15

How does one become a Mslim?

Answer 15

Uttering the statement in the presence of three Muslim witnesses renders one a Muslim and entitles to rights and Islamic duties

Question 16

What is a call to pray?

Answer 16

Shahada

Question 17

What is the entrance into Islam?

Answer 17

shahada

Question 18

When are the 5 daily prayers obligatory for a Muslim?

Answer 18

once they reach puberty

Question 19

What do the five daily prayers symbolize?

Answer 19

the believer’s humility before God

Question 20

True of false: The Qur’an does not explicitly specify the details of prayer, but Muslims have al practical information from the hadith.

Answer 20

true

Question 21

Where can the five daily prayers be performed?

Answer 21

In any clean place, but Muslims are recommended to perform them in congregation (mosque, prayer hall)

Question 22

What determines when the five daily prayers are performed?

Answer 22

all determined by the movement of the sun

Question 23

What do Muslims read during prayer?

Answer 23

passages from the Qur’an

Question 24

What must Muslims do in order to perform prayer?

Answer 24

Muslims have to make ritual ablution using clean water. If there is no water available, one may use dust or sand.

Question 25

What is the prayer announced by?

Answer 25

the call to prayer (adman)

Question 26

What is adman?

Answer 26

In islam is similar to church bell in christianity

Question 27

True or False: Islamic law is not the law of the state.

Answer 27

true

Question 28

What is the purpose of the month of Ramadan?

Answer 28

to remind Muslims of they spiritual discipline

Question 29

What is the exact number of days of fasting in Ramadan determined by?

Answer 29

sighting the new moon which marks the beginning and the end of month (29-30 days)

Question 30

What is one prohibited from doing during fasting?

Answer 30

One is prohibited from eating, drinking, and having sexual intercourse during the daytime

Question 31

What are actions that may invalidate fasting?

Answer 31

Breaking an oath, smoking, deliberate seminal emission, etc.

Question 32

What happens if you are exempt from fasting for various reasons (ex. sick, traveling, nursing, menstruating or pregnant)

Answer 32

They have to make up the days they are not fasting at different times

Question 33

What marks the end of Ramadan?

Answer 33

Eid Festival

Question 34

What is the Eid?

Answer 34

A social celebration during which Muslims pray in a congregation, dress in their finest clothes, visit each other, exchange gifts, and have meals together.

Question 35

What is Zakat?

Answer 35

An obligatory payment imposed on certain category of property and income

Question 36

What is the purpose of Zakat?

Answer 36

To remind Muslims that their wealth is not an end in and of itself

Question 37

Where was Zakat practice institutionalized?

Answer 37

After the prophet's migration to Medina

Question 38

What is the function of zakat in premodern society?

Answer 38

similar to that of modern states, that is, to provide social security for community

Question 39

___may collect zakat, but they have no authority;power to determine the amount of due zakat.

Answer 39

rulers/caliph

Question 40

What is the amount of obligatory zakat?

Answer 40

2.5% of the annual income exceeding th minimum threshold (nisab)

Question 41

What is the nisab in grams of gold or its cash equivalent.

Answer 41

87.48

Question 42

Who are the recipients of Zakat?

Answer 42

The poor and indigent, orphans, widows, ta collectors, slaves who seek to purchase freedom but do no shave sufficient funds, debaters, volunteers, and travellers.

Question 43

What are Muslims expected to practices in addition to the obligatory zakat?

Answer 43

Voluntary alms giving (sadaqah). The recipient may be anyone in need.

Question 44

What is Hajj

Answer 44

The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam.

Question 45

How many times must Muslims do Hajj?

Answer 45

It is prescribed in the Qur'an and is required for all free adult Muslims once in their lifetime.

Question 46

What is the purpose of Hajj?

Answer 46

The purpose is to remind people of the larger and extremely diverse community to which they belong, and at the same time to the element of its unity.

Question 47

What does Hajj symbolize?

Answer 47

Unity and solidarity of all Muslims across the globe that they are in one community of believers.

Question 48

Who is exempt from the performance of Hajj?

Answer 48

Muslims who are financially incapable, facing hardship to travel, r no tin good health.

Question 49

Wha ti sShari'a?

Answer 49

The rituals that are summarized in the doctrine of the Five Pillars are understood to be God's law (Shari'a)

Question 50

True of False: God's law isn't codified.

Answer 50

true

Question 51

What was Shari'a defined by in pre-modern Islam?

Answer 51

by Muslim jurists

Question 52

Why is the verdict issues by the Muslim jurists (fuqaha) referred to?

Answer 52

fatwa

Question 53

Is the Qur'an a legal code or book of law?

Answer 53

no

Question 54

Is Fatwa binding?

Answer 54

no

Question 55

God's law is___than "law proper" (commercial, criminal, contract).

Answer 55

broader

Question 56

True or False: Qur'an is not the book of law, but Muslims define law from the Qur'an and the hadith.

Answer 56

true

Question 57

What is the concept of Shari'a law similar to?

Answer 57

common law

Question 58

What does the hadith mean?

Answer 58

news, reports

Question 59

What does Hadith of the Prophet mean?

Answer 59

reports about the Prophet Muhammad's actions, saying, and practices throughout twenty two years of his misison

Question 60

How was Hadith preserved before being canonized as hadith collection?

Answer 60

preserved in memory as an oral tradition

Question 61

What is hadith seen as parallel to?

Answer 61

The Gospels, which documented the life, words, and acts of Jesus

Question 62

In what way is the Qur'an parallel to Jesus?

Answer 62

Both represent God's word