1. What is Islam?
2. What does Islam mean?
3. How do we know Islam is the truth?
4. Why does Islam often seem strange?
5. Do Islam and Christianity have different origins?
6. Who are Muslims?
7. What do Muslims believe?
8. Who is Allah?
9. Does Allah look like us?
10. What does it mean to believe in Allah?
11. Can we see Allah?
12. Does Allah see us?
13. Does Allah answer my prayers?
14. When does Allah not answer our prayers?
15. What can I ask of Allah?
16. Who is Muhammad (peace be upon him)?
17. How did Muhammad (peace be upon him) become a prophet and a messenger of
God?
18. What is the Quran?
19. What is the Quran about?
20. Are there any other sacred sources?
21. Who is Jesus to us?
22. Who were the parents of Jesus (peace be upon him)?
23. Can Jesus (peace be upon him), or Muhammad (peace be upon him) be
worshipped?
24. Is Allah the same as what Christians call "the father"?
25. Is there a trinity in Islam?
26. Can anyone become a Muslim?
27. What about someone who has never heard of Islam?
28. When is the Day of Judgment?
29. Are there signs for the day of Judgment?
30. What is it that keeps us from entering Heaven?
31. What about non-Muslims do; they go to heaven?
32. Do we believe that Allah created the heavens and earth in 6 days?
33. Do we have free will?
34. Did Allah create evil?
35. Who are my best friends?
36. Who is my worst enemy?
37. Do bad things happen to the believers (good people)?
38. Why is the family so important to Muslims?
39. What about food?
40. What is the Kabah?
41. Who are amongst the people that must fast in the blessed month of Ramadan and
those that are not obliged to fast in this month?
42. What facts about the month of Ramadan have been related by Hadith in regards to
what takes place related to heaven and hell?
43. What is one of the Sunnahs when a Muslim, for a valid reason cannot keep fast?
44. What connection does the Holy Quran and the blessed month of Ramadan have
that makes the month very important and sacred?
45. It is said that the odor of a fasting Muslim is more fragrant to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta`ala than what?
46. Is it a requirement to enter Masjid Haram from the Baab as-Salaam entrance?
47. Can I smoke when I'm in Ihram?
48. When I stone the Jamaraat, is it necessary to hit the target?
49. Can I perform Hajj every year?
50. Is it a must for a wife to seek her husband's permission to perform the obligatory
Hajj?
51. What is the ruling on aborting a pregnancy in the early months (1-3) before the
soul is breathed into the fetus?
1. What is Islam?
Ans: Islam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His
prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is both a religion
and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness,
and the majority has nothing to do with the extremely grave events, which have come to
be associated with their faith.
Source: www.alim.org
8. Who is Allah?
Ans: It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in
reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is
the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no
plural or gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word god which can
be made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice that Allah is the
personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and a sister language of Arabic.
The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To
a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to
nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. The Prophet Muhammad was asked by his
contemporaries about Allah; the answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a
short chapter of the Quran, which is considered the essence of the unity or the motto of
monotheism. This is chapter 112 which reads:
Source: www.usc.edu
17. How did Muhammad (peace be upon him) become a prophet and a messenger of
God?
Ans: At the age of 40, while engaged in a meditative retreat, Muhammad (peace be upon
him) received his first revelation from God through the Angel Gabriel. This revelation,
which continued for twenty-three years, is known as the Quran.
As soon as he began to recite the words he heard from Gabriel, and to preach the truth
that God had revealed to him, he and his small group of followers suffered bitter
persecution, which grew so fierce that in the year 622 God gave them the command to
emigrate. This event, the Hijrah, 'migration', in which they left Makkah for the city of
Madinah some 260 miles to the north, marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.
After several years, the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his followers were able to return
to Makkah, where they forgave their enemies and established Islam definitively. Before
the Prophet (peace be upon him) died at the age of 63, the greater part of Arabia was
Muslim, and within a century of his death Islam had spread to Spain in the West and as
Far East as China.
Source: www.alim.org
23. Can Jesus (peace be upon him), or Muhammad (peace be upon him) be
worshipped?
Ans: No, Allah does not accept that a prophet, a person, an angel, a cow, a stone, or
anything be worshipped in place of Him or even along with Him. Worship must be to
Allah, the Creator of them.
Source: www.sultan.org
32. Do we believe that Allah created the heavens and earth in 6 days?
Ans: Yes, we do.
Source: www.sultan.org
42. What facts about the month of Ramadan have been related by Hadith in regards
to what takes place related to heaven and hell?
Ans: The gates of heaven are opened and the gates of hell are shut.
Source: www.islamicvoice.com
43. What is one of the Sunnahs when a Muslim, for a valid reason cannot keep fast?
Ans: Not to eat in the presence of a fasting person. Repay it by fasting the number of
days missed after Ramadan or give kafaarah equal to the amount of one Sadaqa tul Fitr in
charity to the poor for each day missed.
Source: www.islamicvoice.com
44. What connection does the Holy Quran and the blessed month of Ramadan have
that makes the month very important and sacred?
Ans: The Holy Quran was revealed in Ramadan.
Source: www.islamicvoice.com
45. It is said that the odor of a fasting Muslim is more fragrant to Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta`ala than what?
Ans: Musk.
Source: www.islamicvoice.com
46. Is it a requirement to enter Masjid Haram from the Baab as-Salaam entrance?
Ans: There is no such requirement. You can enter from any of the many gates.
Source: www.hajtips.com
A: There are numerous things you can do to walk in the way of Allah. Consider
contributing your Hajj trip funds to uplift downtrodden Muslims.
B: With nearly 3 million people converging in The Holy Land to perform the Hajj, the
Saudi authorities have understandably imposed Hajj quotas. Have a heart for those
waiting in line to perform the Hajj for the first time. Allow a reasonable time gap before
going to perform the Hajj again.
Source: www.hajtips.com
50. Is it a must for a wife to seek her husband's permission to perform the obligatory
Hajj?
Ans: Yes. A husband is strongly advised not to object as his wife is seeking permission to
perform a duty commanded by The Almighty. Obedience to the command of The
Almighty supercedes everything else, including a husband's objection.
Source: www.hajtips.com
51. What is the ruling on aborting a pregnancy in the early months (1-3) before the
soul is breathed into the fetus?
Ans: 1- It is not permissible to abort a pregnancy at any stage unless there is a legitimate
reason, and within very precise limits.
2- If the pregnancy is in the first stage, which is a period of forty days, and aborting it
serves a legitimate purpose or will ward off harm, then it is permissible to abort it. But
aborting it at this stage for fear of the difficulty of raising children or of being unable to
bear the costs of maintaining and educating them, or for fear for their future or because
the couple feel that they have enough children – this is not permissible.
3- It is not permissible to abort a pregnancy when it is an ‘alaqah (clot) or mudghah
(chewed lump of flesh) (which are the second and third periods of forty days each) until a
trustworthy medical committee has decided that continuing the pregnancy poses a threat
to the mother’s wellbeing, in that there is the fear that she will die if the pregnancy
continues. It is permissible to abort it once all means of warding off that danger have
been exhausted.
4- After the third stage, and after four months have passed, it is not permissible to abort
the pregnancy unless a group of trustworthy medical specialists decide that keeping the
fetus in his mother’s womb will cause her death, and that should only be done after all
means of keeping the fetus alive have been exhausted. A concession is made allowing
abortion in this case so as to ward off the greater of two evils and to serve the greater of
two interests.
Source: www.thepureislam.com