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Islam
Question | Answer |
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What is Islam? | A religion with uncompromising monotheism as taught by Muhammad. |
What does "Islam" mean? | It means "submission" (abraham & isaac story) & "peace." |
What is Muslim? | The people that follow Islam. |
What is Sunnah? | A "well trodden path" a "custom" or a "practice." It is the example set by the prophet. |
Who was Muhammad? | Muhammad was the greatest & last prophet. |
What did the angel Gabriel tell Muhammad to do? | to RECITE. |
What did Muhammad recite? | Things that constituted the Qur'an. |
How did Muhammad record what he recited? | On scraps of metal when it came to him. |
When did Muhammad get taken on his night journey? | 620 CE. |
Where did Muhammad get taken to? | the Mosque in Jerusalem, then toured Heaven and Hell. |
Who was Muhammads guide? | Angel Gabriel. |
What does Hijra mean? | The migration. |
Where did Muhammad migrate to? | Yahtrib (Medina) |
When does the start of the Islamic calendar start? | 622, when Muhammad migrated to Yathrib. |
Why did his teachings in Mecca threaten the community? | It was a traditional pilgrimage site of other religions, and his calls for social justice threatened the elite. |
What are the five articles of faith in Islam? | God, Angels, Scripture, Prophets, & The Day of Judgement. |
Who was Allah? | "The God" |
What is Tawhid? | Strict Monotheism, the unity/oneness of God. |
Who were Hanifs? | Meccan predecessor monotheists who worshiped Allah. |
Who was Gabriel? | The angel that was the messenger of revelation. |
Who was Michael? | The angel who was the guardian of the Jews. |
Who was Iblis? | Iblis is the Satan of Islam. A fallen angel, and the father of the evil Jinn. |
Who was Jinn? | A lower form of spirit than the angels. |
Who is Mahdi? | The prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for 7, 9 , or 19 years. |
What is the holy book of Islam? | The Quran. |
What kind of stuff is in the Quran? | Revelations of Allah through Gabriel through Muhammad. It contains references to Christian and Jewish references such as Adam, Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Mary, and Joseph. |
The book of Quran was recorded after how many years? | 23 years. |
What is the Hadith? | Collected traditions (actions and sayings) of Muhammad. It is an expansion and interpretation of the Quran. |
What is the Shari'a? | It is the codification of divine law & tells you what every Muslim should do. |
Who were the main messengers of Islam? | Abraham, Noah, Isaac, Ishmael, Moses, Zechariah, John (the baptist), and Jesus. |
Who was Abraham according to Islam? | He shows the meaning of submission when going to sacrifice his son, and the father of Ishmael. |
What did Abraham build? | He built the Ka'aba. |
What are the five pillars of Islam? | Creed, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, & Pilgrimage. |
What is Shahadah? | A saying for Islams claiming, "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his prophet." |
What is Ramadan? | A period of time where Muslims fast. |
What is Hajj? | It is the pilgrimage that Muslims take to Mecca. |
What is Ka'aba? | Ka'aba is the case in Mecca to walk around that has a meteroite in the corner of it, made by Abraham. |
What is Zamzam? | A well located within the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Known as the holiest place in Islam. |
What is the mount of mercury? | A part of the pilgrimage to Mecca. |
What is Jihad? | It is a holy war. All Muslims must participate if there is a legally valid deceleration of war against the infidels. It was added to the five pillars by the Kharaji. |
What is the caliphate? | An argument that Muhammad left no heir vs. Muhammads cousin/son-in-law should be the heir. |
What four rightly guarded caliphs were selected? | Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, & Ali. |
What was Ali blamed for? | Uthman's assassination and then he was assassinated. |
For there to be a legally documented war, what must happen? | There must be a legitamate caliph to declare it. |
How long did the Ottoman empire last? | Until 1924. |
What group made Islam centrally located in Damascus (Syria)? | The Umayyads. |
What group made Islam centrally located in Baghdad? | The Abbasids. |
What group made Islam centrally located in Turkey? | The Mongols. |
What are the subgroups of Islam? | Sunni, Shi'i, Wahhabi, Imami, and Sufi. |
What do the Sunni Muslims believe? | They accepted the legitamacy of the calipahte. |
What does "Sunni" mean? | "Traditionalists" or "orthodox" |
Which group has the largest amount of Islams? | Sunni. |
The Sunni Muslims are generally ____? | Arabs. |
Who are the Wahhabi? | A sub-group of Sunni Muslims located in Saudi Arabia. They believe in predestination and the literal intereptation of the Quran. |
Who are the Shi'i? | The group of Muslims who stay loyal to Ali. |
What does Shi'i mean? | "Partisans" or "legitimists" |
The Shi'i Muslims are generally _____? | Persians. |
Shi'i Muslims believe that the caliphate should have been passed to? | Ali's son. |
Shi'i muslims believe Ali's son is what? | in hiding, not dead, and will one day return to restore peace and justice to the world. |
Who are the Imami? | a sub-group of the Shi'i. Ali was an Imami. |
Who are the Sufi? | They are a mystical movement, modeled on Muhammads Night Journey. |
Who was Ali? | He is the first Imami, and blood related to Muhammad. |
Who was the 12th Imam? | Ali's son who is in seclusion to return someday. |
What is a Mahdi? | A spiritual and temporal leader who will rule before the end of the world. |
What is a Shaikh? | An elder that is respected in Islam. |
What is Muharram? | It is a a Muslim Observance/Practice. |
To the Shi'a, Muharram is _____? | A memorial to the martyrs. |
To the Sunni, Muharram is ______? | A memorial of creation. |