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Islam
What do you know?
20 Questions
• Muhammad the prophet of Islam was an
orphan living in a tribal society of Bedouins.
• True
• The Bible is a holy text of Islam
• True
• Islam is the only major world religion not born
in an aged or established civilization.
• True
• Prior to the establishment of Islam, Arabs
seemed to be gravitating towards Christianity
and Judaism.
• True
• Jews hold a poor position in the history of the
Islamic world, fueling the current conflict
between the Jewish and Islamic worlds.
• False
• Jesus, Muhammad, and Abraham are the
primary prophets mentioned in the Quran
(Koran).
• True
• By modern Islamic law terrorism in its current
form is technically illegal and renders those
who practice terrorism in opposition to the
teachings of Islam.
• True
• Islam was born out of peace and warfare
holds no jurisdiction within the faith.
• False
• Muhammad Ibn Abdullah was the last of the
prophets of Allah (God) sent to complete the
message of other prophets such as Jesus,
Abraham and John the Baptist.
• True
• Muslims are those who practice Islam.
• True
• The Koran (Quran) is infallible and its contents
cannot be disputed and must be followed to
the letter.
• True
• Muslims view Muhammad as divine in the
same way that Christians view Jesus Christ as
divine.
• False
• The Quran states “You are the best community
evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right
and forbidding what is wrong…the believers,
men, and women, are protectors of one
another”.
• True
• Islam holds Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism,
and Buddhism in the highest regard as they
believe in God.
• False
• Islam spread remarkably fast largely through
war as a vehicle of conversion.
• False
• A leader in the Islamic world is known as a
“sultan”.
• False
• Unlike Christianity, Islam never split into
factions and Islam is the same throughout the
world.
• False
• Muslims have to practice the “five pillars”
– Fasting during Ramadan
– Giving of Alms to the poor
– Repetition of Islamic Creed
– Prayer five times daily
– Annual pilgrimage to Mecca
• False
• Muslims make a pilgrimage to the Kaaba a
black tapestry covered building in Mecca that
was believed to have been built by Abraham
himself.
• False
• Conflicts seen in the world today between the
West and Islam are religious in nature.
• False