Key Beliefs In Islam

Question 1

How many articles of faith do Sunni Muslims have?

Answer 1

Six

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Five

Question 3

What are the six articles of faith in Sunni Islam?

Answer 3

Tawhid 
Malaikah
The Holy Books
Nubuwwah
Day of Judgement
Predestination- Al Qadr

Question 4

What are the five articles of faith in Shi’a Islam?

Answer 4

Tawhid
Adalat
Nubuwwah
Imamah 
Ma’ad

Question 5

What is tawhid?

Answer 5

The belief that allah is the one and only god

Question 6

What is malaikah?

Answer 6

The belief in angels

Question 7

What is nubuwwah?

Answer 7

The belief in Allah’s prophets

Question 8

What is predestination?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is adalat?

Answer 9

The belief in divine justice

Question 10

What is imamah?

Answer 10

The belief in the authority of imams

Question 11

What is ma’ad?

Answer 11

The belief in the day of resurrection

Question 12

How are Sunni Muslims guided?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

“Say, ‘He …

Answer 13

is Allah, [who is] one’.”

Question 14

What is Shirk?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

“Allah does not forgive…

Answer 15

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

Question 16

“Let the first thing to which…

Answer 16

you will invite them, be the Tawhid of Allah”

Question 17

What is the worst sin in Islam?

Answer 17

Shirk

Question 18

Define Merciful

Answer 18

Allah has mercy and compassion

Question 19

Define Omnipotent

Answer 19

all powerful

Question 20

Define Omnibeneveltent

Answer 20

all loving and good

Question 21

Define Omniscient

Answer 21

all knowing

Question 22

Define Omnipresent

Answer 22

always present

Question 23

Define Just

Answer 23

Allah will judge peoples behavior in a fair way

Question 24

Define Immanent

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Define Transcendent

Answer 25

Allah is beyond the world and above everything

Question 26

Give a quote to show that Allah is immanent

Answer 26

"We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein"

Question 27

What is risalah?

Answer 27

The concept of messengership- they way Allah communicates with humans

Question 28

What does Allah use angels for?

Answer 28

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)

Question 29

What does Rasuls mean?

Answer 29

Prophets

Question 30

How many prophets are mentioned in the Qur'an?

Answer 30

25

Question 31

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

Answer 31

124,000

Question 32

A quote to show the equality of all prophets

Answer 32

"We make no distinction between any of them"

Question 33

How did prophets prove that they were prophets?

Answer 33

They performed miracles

Question 34

Adam was the first...

Answer 34

prophet and man

Question 35

Give 5 propehts

Answer 35

``` Ibrahim Isma'il Musa Dawud Isa Muhammad ```

Question 36

Adam was sent to earth after doing what?

Answer 36

Eating forbidden fruit

Question 37

Who was thought to have built the Ka'aba

Answer 37

Firstly Adam, then Ibrahim rebuilt it

Question 38

why was Musa important?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Define Surah

Answer 39

chapters

Question 40

How many surahs is the Qur'an organised into?

Answer 40

114

Question 41

How are the surahs organised?

Answer 41

in order of length

Question 42

How do Muslims treat the Qur'an?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Suhuf Ibrahim Tawrat (Torah) Zabur (Psalms) Injil

Question 44

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

Answer 44

the qur'an

Question 45

Give a quote describing the torah...

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What is Sunnah?

Answer 46

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

Question 47

What is The Hadith?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

Define hadith

Answer 48

sayings

Question 49

Shi'a Muslims also follow the hadith of what?

Answer 49

The imams, especially those of Ali

Question 50

What does the Torah contain?

Answer 50

The "judgement of Allah" | The ten commandments