Ramadaan BOOK The information provided in this booklet will form the basis of the quiz questions to be asked after Taraweeg salaah at Masjid Boorhaanol Islam in Longmarket Street, Bo-Kaap COMPILED BY Sh Muhammad West 6 June 2016 1 1. Islam means submission to Allah 15. None of the creation has seen Allah. 2. Imaan means belief or faith 16. The believers will see Allah in the life 3. Islam is built on 5 pillars after death. a. The declaration of faith 17. Everything that has been created is for b. To establish the five daily prayers purpose of worshipping Allah alone c. To pay Zakah 18. The Angels of Allah are created from d. To fast in the month of Ramadan light e. To perform the Hajj once in your 19. They obey Allah perfectly without any life if your able to do so will to commit sin 4. The declaration of faith is to testify 20. They have wings that none has the right to be worshipped other than Allah and that 21. They do not eat or sleep Muhammad is Allah’s messenger 22. Jibrael is the arc angle 5. Imaan is based on 6 articles 23. Jibrael is the angel who brings a. to believe in Allah revelation from Allah to the prophets. b. His angles 24. Jibrael has over 600 wings c. His books d. His messengers 25. Jibrael is also called the Ruh Al Qudos, e. the Last Day and the holy spirit. f. to believe in the divine decree, 26. Michael is an angel mentioned by [both] the good and the evil name in the Quran thereof. 27. Michael is the angel of mercy and rain 6. The most fundamental principle of Islam is called Tawhid. Tawhid relates 28. Malik is mentioned by name in the to affirming that Allah is one and He Quran alone should be worshipped 29. Malik is the warden of the Jahanum 7. Allah created the seven heavens and 30. Malik leads the 19 angels who watch the earth in 6 days and then rose over Jahanum above the Arsh or Throne. 31. Israfeel is the angel who shall blow the 8. The Kursi refers to the footstool of the trumpet that will begin the end of the Arsh. world 9. Allah has many names. We only know 32. The 19 angels of Jahanum are called 99 of them. the Zabaniya 10. Nothing in the creation resembles 33. Rayaan is the angel in charge of Janna Allah 34. Munkar and Nakir are the angels of the 11. Allah has no beginning and no end. grave 12. The Christians say Jesus is the son of 35. Munkar and Nakir ask the following Allah and the Jews say Uzair is the son questions: of Allah. However Allah does not take a. Who is your Lord? any partners or sons. b. What is your religion? 13. If Allah wills a matter He only says “be” c. What did you do with regards to and it is. the prophet that was sent to you? 14. Allah’s mercy encompasses every 36. Jinn are created from a smokeless fire creation. MASJID BOORHAANOL ISLAM : RAMADAAN 2016 QUIZ BOOK 2 37. They were created after the angels but 56. Iblees tempted Prophet Adam and before man Howa to eat from the tree by 38. They are like humans as they have free promising them immortality. will 57. Both Prophet Adam and Howa ate 39. They live on earth with us from the tree and were expelled from paradise along with Iblees 40. They see humans but humans cannot see them 58. Prophet Adam and Howa were sent to the earth were they repented to Allah 41. They have the ability to fly and have and were forgiven. great strength 59. Christians belief that due to the sins of 42. Some of the Jinn are good and some Prophet Adam and Eve all of mankind are bad carries a curse. This is known as 43. Iblees was from amongst the Jinn and original sin. he disobeyed Allah 60. Muslims reject this concept and belief 44. Jinn can influence the thoughts and no one carries the sin of anyone else. dreams of humans 61. On Earth Prophet Adam and Howa had 45. Prophet Adam AS was the first human a family and were commanded by created Allah to worship him Alone 46. Prophet Adam was created from clay 62. The very first place established for mankind to worship Allah was at 47. Allah shaped Prophet Adam with Bakkah (Makkah). Allah’s own hands 63. Prophet Adam became the first 48. The only things created by Allah by prophet of Allah from mankind. hand was Prophet Adam, The Throne, The Pen and Garden of Adan 64. Prophet Adam is mentioned 25 times in the Quran 49. Allah taught Prophet Adam the names of all things. 65. Amongst the sons of Prophet Adam was Habil and Cabil 50. Prophet Adam was able to comprehend that which the angels 66. Due to a dispute Cabil killed his were not able to. brother Habil and committed the first act of murder in humanity. 51. Allah commanded the angels and the jinn to bow to Prophet Adam. 67. The murder saw how a crow dug a hole and did the same and buried his 52. All the angels bowed but Iblees from brothers body the Jinn refused. 68. Prophet Adam was given a 1000 years 53. Iblees was proud and envious of of life but gave 40 of those years to Prophet Adam and promised to Prophet Dawood mislead Adam from Allah’s worship 69. When Prophet Adam died his other 54. Prophet Adam lived in paradise and son Seth took over prophet hood from Allah created for him his wife Howa his father. from the rib of Prophet Adam 70. Allah sent down one hundred and four 55. Allah permitted Prophet Adam and psalms, of which fifty were sent down Howa to do as they pleased in paradise to Prophet Seth. but to not eat from a specific tree. 71. Prophet Idris lived between the time of Prophet Adam and Prophet Nuh MASJID BOORHAANOL ISLAM : RAMADAAN 2016 QUIZ BOOK 3 72. He is mentioned twice in the Quran 91. The people of Aad were even larger 73. Prophet Muhammad (s) met Prophet and stronger than the generations Idris in the 4th heaven on the night of before them.They were the most the Miraj powerful nation of their time and no nation after them had strength like 74. Prophet Nuh AS is mentioned 43 times them in the Quran 92. The people of Aad built a powerful city 75. An entire Surah (71) named after him made of pillars and towers called the 76. Prophet Nuh AS is the first messenger city Iram Allah sent to mankind 93. The people of Aad committed shirk 77. Prophet Nuh AS is one of the 5 and were tyrants in the land selected messengers known as the 94. They refused the message of Hud AS ulool-azim so Allah destroyed them with a cold 78. The period between Adam and Noah shrieking wind. was ten centuries 95. The wind persisted for 7 nights and 8 79. Prophet Nuh’s people were the first to days until nothing was left of the commit shirk by worshipping idols people of Aad. 80. Idol worship began a few generations 96. After the destruction of the Ad, the prior to Nuh As through venerating the tribe of Thamud succeeded them in graves of the pious power and glory 81. Nuh AS called his people to tawhid for 97. Like the people of Ad, they erected 950 years huge buildings on the plains and hewed beautiful homes out of the 82. His people rejected his message and hills, in a land called Al-Hijr threatened to kill all the believers 98. They also fell to idol-worshipping, 83. Nuh AS made duah against his people building huge tombs for those holy and Allah sent a flood against them men who died 84. Nuh AS, the believers and animals 99. Salih was a well loved man from his boarded a ship built by Nuh AS and people and Allah blessed him with were saved. Prophet hood 85. The flood destroyed all the people 100. He called his people to worship Allah who committed shirk alone 86. The ship settled on Mount Judi. 101. His people demanded a miracle be 87. Prophet Hud AS mentioned 7 times in sent t to them the Quran. 102. Allah granted Salih this miracle and a 88. 11th chapter (Hud) of the Quran is huge, unique, she camel appeared to named after him and the 46th (Al- come out of a rock. Ahqaf) chapter named after the land 103. Still the people of Thamud rejected he came from. This land lies between Salih AS message. It was said to them Yemen and Oman not to harm the she camel 89. Hud (AS) was sent to a people called 104. The worst of them killed the camel Aad 105. Allah punished them with a loud shriek 90. He was an Arabian prophet and his that destroyed them story was not revealed in the Torah or Injeel, but only found in the Quran. MASJID BOORHAANOL ISLAM : RAMADAAN 2016 QUIZ BOOK 4 106. Prophet Shuaib AS is mentioned ten 123. Instead of following Ibrahim they times in the Quran sentenced him to death and cast him 107. He was sent to the people of Madyan into a huge fire.