Miscellaneous
The name of the Muslim God.
Who is Allah?
He was the founder of the Islamic Religion.
Who wad The Prophet Muhammad?
This is the city in which Islam began. Islam's most holy city.
What was Mecca?
This act consists of sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith. "There is only one God, Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet."
What is Shahadah?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
The house of worship, which is a cube made of black stone. It is the most holy place in Mecca. Abraham and Ismael built it.
What is the Kabba?
The year that Islam was founded by The Prophet Muhammad.
What was 610 A.D.?
The city that Muhammad and his followers fled to escape persecution and death when he first began to preach Islam.
What is Medina?
This act consists of properly performing ritual prayers five times each day towards the east (Mecca).
What is salat?
What is Arabic?
The Festival of Breaking the Fast is a joyous holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan. Traditionally, it lasts for 3 days.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
The year in which the Prophet Muhammad died.
What was the year 632 A.D.?
The third most holy city in Islam. It is where the Dome of The Rock Mosque is built. It is said that Muhammad asended into Heaven at this place.
What is Jerusalem?
This is paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy.
What is zakat?
The word "Islam," means this.
What is to submit to God?
A Muslim place of worship.
What is a mosque?
This angel gave the beginning of Islam's most holy scripture to The Prophet Muhammad. He was told to "recite!"
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
The name of the peninsula in which Islam was founded.
What is The Arabian Peninsula?
This is the term for fasting during Ramadan.
What is sawm?
The calendar of Islam is based on what?
The moon cycle.
A head covering worn in public by some Muslim women.
What is a hijab?
Considered a patriarch of the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and is seen as a model of obedience to God and the father of all three monotheistic religions.
Who is Father Abraham?
What is Baghdad?
The Five Pillars of Islam are the five obligations that every Muslim must fulfill to live a good, responsible life according to Islam.
The Five Pillars are:
Shahadah: sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith
Salat: performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day
Zakat: paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy
Sawm: fasting during the month of Ramadan
Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca
This is the symbol of Islam. It symbolises how Islam has a lunar calendar, and the five pillars of Islam.
What is the crescent moon and star?
Son of Abraham and Hagar, father of the Arabic people. He helped to build the Kabba.
Who is Ismael?
This means a message, usually one believed to come from God.
What is a revelation?
This is a pilgrimage to Mecca, which is a duty for Muslims at least once in their lives.
What is a hajj?
This refers to the way Muhammad lived, which provides a model for the duties and the way of life expected of Muslims.
What is The Sunnah?
A distinctive feature of mosque architecture is a tower from which the faithful are called to worship. A prayer tower.
What is a minaret?
This rare species of middle schooler combines the traits of a middle school female student and a dinosaur.
What is an Assatasaurus?
This means a holy war.
What is jihad?
This is the statement of faith that one must speak in order to convert to Islam.
What is Shahadah? "There is only one God, Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet."
The written record of The Sunnah. It is an account of the Prophet Muhammad's words and actions.
What is The Haddith?
This word means "successor" in Arabic. The rulers who took over the Muslim world after the death of Muhammad.
What is a caliph?
The event in 622 A.D., when Muhammad and his followers fled Mecca to Medina to escape persecution and death.
What was the Hijra?
A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad. They follow the teachings of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's main advisor.
What is Sunni Islam?
A branch in Islam whose members acknowledge that the successor of Islam was Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, Ali.
What is Shia Islam?
The body of Islamic law includes the interpretation of the Quran and applies Islamic principles to everyday life. It means, "The Way."
What is Sharia?