What is Islam
Islam is a religion, but it is also a complete this, from birth until death.
What is a way of life?
All good things that happen to us come from this source.
Who is Allāh?
This is the Arabic word for repentance.
What is tawbah?
We say this at the start of prayer. It means “Allah is the Greatest.”
What is Allāhu Akbar (the takbīr)?
Giving a part of your wealth to help the poor is called this.
What is zakah?
The word “Muslim” means one who does this.
What is submits to Allāh?
This Arabic word means the Oneness of Allāh
What is tawhīd?
When you say “astaghfirullāh,” you mean this.
What is “I seek Allāh’s forgiveness”?
These are reports that tell us what the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, did, or approved of.
What are hadith?
This is the first pillar of Islam: the declaration of faith that there is no god but Allāh and Muhammad is His Messenger.
What is the Shahādah?
Allāh says in the Qur’ān (51:56) that He created mankind and the jinn for this purpose.
What is to worship Him (and only Him)?
This word means “having unlimited power” or “able to do anything.
What is omnipotent?
One of the most beautiful names of Allāh, at-Tawwib, means this
What is the Guide to Repentance (the One who guides to repentance)?
“Guide us to the Straight Path” is part of this surah that we recite in every salah
What is Al-Fātiḥah?
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) received the first revelation in this cave near Makkah, brought by this angel.
What are the Cave of Ḥirā' and Jibrīl (Gabriel)?
The Qur’ān uses this Arabic word to roughly mean “religion” or “creed.”
What is dīn?
A scientist might produce all the genetic codes for a human being, but this life-giving spirit, which only Allāh gives, is also needed. ★
What is rūh?
This is the main reason we should always seek istighfār.
What is to seek protection so that we do not commit sin in the future?
This word means the teachings, practices, and example of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
What is the Sunnah?
The Qur'ān was first revealed during this special night in Ramadan, better than a thousand months.
Laylat al-Qadr
Besides internal reliability and external reliability, name the three other validity tests of the Qur’ān
What are genuineness, comprehensiveness, and universality?
A person who denies tawhīd is doing, or is capable of doing, this with Allāh
What is associating partners with Allāh?
Name the three requirements that must be met when we make tawbah.
What are: immediately stop committing the sin; express regret for committing it; make a firm determination not to commit the same sin again?
The Qur’ān commands us to pray, but it does not give every detail of the prayer. This is how we learn the details.
What is from the example of the Prophet (peace be upon him), who showed us how to pray, preserved in hadith?
He was the first person to give the adhān.
Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ