Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)
This city is called the prophet's city because Muhammad (SAW) moved here from Makkah.
What is Madinah?
These are the five daily prayers.
What are Fajr, Zuhar, Asr, Maghrib and Isha?
This angel revealed the Quran to prophet Muhammad (SAW).
Who is Jibraeel (Gabriel)?
This area consisting of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is still not considered a legal state (horrifyingly) by the International community.
What is Palestine?
This famous civil rights activist became Muslim after he travelled to Makkah and saw that all people were equal in Islam, despite the colour of their skin.
He said, “America needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”
Who is Malcolm X?
These were the names of the prophet Muhammad's (SAW) parents?
Who are Amina and Abdullah?
These are three body parts that must be washed during the act of wudu.
Answers will vary-What are three of the following...?
hands, mouth, nose, face, arms, masah, feet
The Quran is separated into this many chapters (parts).
What are 30 parts?
Genocide of Muslims has occurred in two of these places.
Answers may vary.
What are two of the following...?
Bosnia, China, Kashmir, Palestine, Myanmar etc.
This famous female activist said, “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
These 3 women are integral to the life of prophet Muhammad (SAW).
His first wife
His youngest daughter
and the wife in whose presence he passed away
Who are Khadija (RA), Fatima (RA), and Ayesha (RA)?
This was the place from where prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) ascended to the heavens and was given the details of prayer and how many times Muslims pray each day.
What is Al-Aqsa Masjid in Jerusalem?
This prophet is mentioned the most times in the Quran, 136 times.
Who is Musa (Moses) (AS)?
This country has the largest Muslim population, approximately 87% of the people who live there.
What is Indonesia?
This famous comedian recently expressed his connection to Islam when he said, "I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.” He also said, "I wanted to have a meaningful life, a spiritual life, not just what my hands can hold, … I felt like I’ve always had this notion that life should mean something. The thing that comforts me about it is the idea that all of this is from a singular source and the source is ultimately kind. And even though we may not understand the intentions of this source, we are all connected and bound by it".
Who is Dave Chappelle?
These 4 years are all important in the prophet's life.
The age he was when he first married, the year he became a prophet, and the amount of years that he was younger than his first wife
What are 25 years old, 40 years old, and 15 years difference?
These rakats are not compulsory in Islamic prayer.
(List three examples and explain which prayer they are from and if they are before or after the fard rakat)
What are sunnah and nafil rakats?
Examples will vary...
Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, “There is a heart in everything; the heart of the Qur’an is this Surah."
What is Surah Yaseen?
This empire controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th Centuries.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This British actor is leading the way to ensure Muslim actors are given more opportunities in film. He questions by saying,
"I ask myself if I'm the exception to the rule, what must the rule be about people like me? What must the unwritten rule be about Muslims, a quarter of the world's population and their place in our stories, our culture and their place in our society, if any?"
He advocates for more Muslim characters with nuance.
Who is Riz Ahmed?
Fill in the following 5 blanks from prophet Muhammad's (SAW) famous quotations.
1. “No Christian shall be brought by ____ to confess Islam, and no disputes except over the better things shall be envisaged in with them. Muslims shall extend over the Christians everywhere the arm of ____ and kindness, protecting them from the exactions of oppressors.”
2. “I leave behind me two things, The ____ and My ______ and if you follow these you will never go astray.”
3. “Feed the hungry, Visit the ____ , Set free captives.”
What are the following...?
1. force and mercy
2. Quran and Sunnah
3. sick
This many rakats make up the full Isha prayer (including all types of rakats).
What is 17 rakats?
-4 sunnah, 4 fard, 2 sunnah, 2 nafil, 3 witr, 2 nafil
Name these surahs...
This is the longest surah in the Quran
This is the shortest surah in the Quran
This surah tells the story of the birth of Isa (AS)-Jesus and his mother
What are surah Baqrah, surah Kawthar and surah Maryam?
Name these three famous Islamic buildings.
1. Located in Spain, it was a huge complex created by the Moors and later converted for the Catholic leaders who took over this area.
2. This large mosque officially called the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is often referred to as this...because of the tiles in its interior.
3. Known as The Great Mosque in Makkah. This is where the Kaaba is found.
What are the following...?
-Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
-The Blue Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey)
-Masjid-al-Haram
These three men are all famous Muslim athletes.
Answers may vary.
Who are three of the following...?
Mo Salah, Kyrie Irving, Mesut Özil, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Hakeem Olajuwon, Rasheed Wallace, Belal Muhammad etc.