U8 L6 Islam

Question 1

What is the youngest major religion of the world?

Answer 1

Islam

Question 2

Where did Islam begin?

Answer 2

Middle East

Question 3

Who is the founder of Islam

Answer 3

Muhammad

Question 4

Where and when was Muhammad born?

Answer 4

Mecca

AD 570-580

Question 5

What does the word Kaaba mean?

Answer 5

Cube

Question 6

The tribe Muhammad was born in acted as a custodian to what?

Answer 6

Kaaba, shine in Mecca

Question 7

What was in the Kaaba?

Answer 7

• idols

- black meteorite (black stone fell from heaven)

Question 8

What was the business of Muhammad’s family in the Kaaba?

Answer 8

give water to worshippers

Question 9

Young Muhammad acquired respect for the () worship of Jews and Christians, while disliking the () by desert Arabs

Answer 9

monotheistic, idol worship

Question 10

Which angel is said to have appeared too Muhammad and gave him he earliest verses of the Koran?

Answer 10

Gabriel

Question 11

Muhammad preached what he felt had been revealed to him by who?

Answer 11

Allah, only true God according to Islam

Question 12

Which people plotted to kill Muhammad because of him speaking against idol worship?

Answer 12

priests of Kaaba and Merchants of mecca

Question 13

In AD 622, Muhammad fled from Mecca to where?

Answer 13

Yathrib

Question 14

What is Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Yathrib called?

Answer 14

Hegira

Question 15

What was Yathrib later renamed?

Answer 15

Madinat an-Nabi (city of the Prophet)

Question 16

What positions did Muhammad experience success in Yathrib?

Answer 16

prophet and governor

Question 17

In AD 630, Muhammad and his supporters destroyed what in the Kaaba?

Answer 17

Idols

Question 18

When did Muhammad pass away?

Answer 18

AD 632

Question 19

What does Islam mean in it’s infinitive verb form?

Answer 19

commit oneself, submit

Question 20

Who is a Muslim?

Answer 20

submits/commits himself to Muhammad’s teaching

Question 21

What is the creedal formula that is the most important element in Muslim Theology?

Answer 21

la ilaha illa Allah , no god but Allah

Question 22

Allah is the () and the () of the universe

Answer 22

one supreme being, creator

Question 23

Islam teaches that the angels are messengers of who?

Answer 23

Allah

Question 24

In Islam, what do the angels do?

Answer 24

• bear up Allah’s throne
• bring his decrees to earth
• record men’s deeds
• receive men’s souls at death
• testify for/against men at judgement
• guard gates of hell

Question 25

Muslims believe that what are in opposition to the angels?

Answer 25

evil spirits

Question 26

Muhammad claimed to be the () and () of Allah's prophets?

Answer 26

last and greatest

Question 27

Do Muslims believe in a coming day of judgement when man's good and evil deeds will be weighed?

Answer 27

yes

Question 28

According to the Koran, when a dead body is buried, which two angels will judge the person's faith and good words?

Answer 28

Munkar and Nakir

Question 29

What are the five religious observances in Islam known as?

Answer 29

Five Pillars of Islam

Question 30

Men are foreordained by an (), they may still exercise his ()

Answer 30

all knowing God, free will

Question 31

What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

Answer 31

- recitation of Shahadah - observance of salat - giving of zakat - observance of Ramadan - pilgrimage to Kaaba once in a lifetime

Question 32

Who gives the call to prayer from the minaret?

Answer 32

muezzin

Question 33

What is a minaret?

Answer 33

slender high tower

Question 34

How many times do Muslims speak the salat (daily prayer) each day?

Answer 34

five

Question 35

Where do Muslims face when they pray/speak the salat?

Answer 35

Mecca

Question 36

What is hadj?

Answer 36

pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 37

What do people wear during their hadj?

Answer 37

white garments and prevent cutting hair

Question 38

How many times and at what pace do Muslims circle the Kaaba?

Answer 38

run 3 | 4 slow

Question 39

What does the Lesser pilgrimage commemorate and include?

Answer 39

- Hagar's search for water for her son, Ishmael | - trot 7 time between Safa and Marva hills

Question 40

What does the Greater Pilgrimage include?

Answer 40

to Mount of Mercy, in Plain of Arafat

Question 41

How many days is the Muslim's feast before returning to the Kaaba to complete the pilgrimage?

Answer 41

3 days

Question 42

SIX MAJOR TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD | The is no god but ()

Answer 42

Allah

Question 43

SIX MAJOR TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD | The ()

Answer 43

angels

Question 44

SIX MAJOR TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD | () is the uncorrupted and inspired book of Allah

Answer 44

Koran

Question 45

Does Islam deny the doctrines of Incarnation and the Trinity?

Answer 45

yes

Question 46

The Word of God affirms that Almighty God dwells () in Jesus

Answer 46

fully

Question 47

Does Christianity teach that no person can perfectly obey God's laws?

Answer 47

yes

Question 48

Do Muslims honor Jesus as a prophet of God?

Answer 48

yes