Islamic Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers - Muslim Trivia
Interesting Islamic trivia quiz questions with the answers about the religion Islam.
Islamic Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers - Muslim Trivia
What is Islam?
A: Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religious group teaching that there is only one God and that
Muhammad is the messenger of God.
It is the world's second-largest religion with how many followers?
A: Over 1.8 billion.
What are followers of Islam known as?
A: Muslims.
Muslims make up a majority of the population in how many countries?
A: 50.
Islam teaches that God is what?
A: Merciful, all-powerful, and unique.
The primary scriptures of Islam are what?
A: The Quran, viewed by Muslims as the verbatim word of God, and the teachings and normative example of Muhammad.
In a religious context, what does Islam mean?
A: It means "voluntary submission to God".
In Anglophone societies, Islam was historically called what?
A: Muhammadanism.
Of the major religions, Islam is often seen as having the what?
A: Simplest doctrines.
What is its most fundamental concept?
A: A rigorous monotheism, called tawḥīd.
In Islam, God is beyond all comprehension and thus
Muslims are not expected to what?
A: Visualize or anthropomorphize him.
God is described and referred to by certain names or attributes, the most common being what?
A: Al-Rahmān, meaning "The Compassionate" and Al-Rahīm, meaning "The Merciful".
Muslims believe that the creation of everything in the universe was brought into being by God's what?
A: Sheer command, "Be, and it is”.
They also believe that the purpose of existence is to what?
A: To worship or to know God.
He is viewed as a personal god who responds whenever what?
A: A person in need or distress calls him.
There are no intermediaries, such as “what” to contact God.
A: Clergy.
God consciousness is referred to as what?
A: Taqwa.
Allah is the term with no plural or gender used by whom to reference God?
A: Muslims and Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews.
Fundamental to the faith of Islam is the belief in what?
A: Angels.
Angels do not possess any bodily desire and are not subject to what?
A: Temptations such as eating, drinking or procreation.
Muslims believe that angels are made of what?
A: Light.
They are described as "messengers with what?
A: Wings.
The Islamic holy books are the records which most Muslims believe were what?
A: Dictated by God to various prophets.
Muslims believe that parts of the previously revealed scriptures, the Torah and the Gospel, had become what?
A: Distorted—either in interpretation, in text, or both.
The Quran (literally, "Recitation") is viewed by Muslims as the what?
A: The final revelation and literal
word of God.
The Quran is widely regarded as the finest literary work in the what?
A: Classical Arabic language.
Muslims believe that the verses of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad by God through whom?
A: The archangel Gabriel on many occasions between 610 CE until his death on June 8, 632.
While Muhammad was alive, who wrote all of these revelations down?
A: By his companions.
What was the prime method of transmission?
A: Orally through memorization.
The Quran is divided into how many chapters (suras)?
A: 114.
The chronologically earlier suras, revealed at Mecca, are primarily concerned with what?
A: Ethical and spiritual topics.
The later Medinan suras mostly discuss what?
A: Social and legal issues relevant to the Muslim community.
The Quran is more concerned with moral guidance than what?
A: Legislation, and is considered the "sourcebook of Islamic principles and values".
Muslims identify the 'prophets' of Islam as whom?
A: Those
humans chosen by God to be his messengers.
According to the Quran, the prophets were instructed by God to bring what to the peoples of the nations?
A: The "will of God".
Muslims believe that prophets are human and not divine, though some are able to do what?
A: Perform miracles to prove their claim.
Islamic theology says that all of God's messengers preached what?
A: The message of Islam—submission to the will of God.