Welcome to the Islamic Trivia post! This is a collection of 141 enlightening questions and answers that offer an introduction to various aspects of Islam. Whether you’re new to the topic, want to test your knowledge, or simply enjoy learning something new, these trivia questions are sure to be informative and engaging. The questions span a variety of subjects, including the Quran, historical figures, rituals, beliefs, Islamic law, and more. Let’s dive in and explore the rich tapestry of Islamic culture and religion through this trivia collection. Enjoy!
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1. What is the religious text of Islam? Reveal Answer The Quran 2. How many times a day are Muslims traditionally expected to pray? Reveal Answer Five times 3. What is the holiest city in Islam? Reveal Answer Mecca 4. Which month of the Islamic calendar is Ramadan? Reveal Answer The ninth month 5. What is the name of the Islamic new year? Reveal Answer Hijri 6. What is the pillar of Islam that involves giving to the poor and needy? Reveal Answer Zakat 7. What is the Islamic profession of faith called? Reveal Answer Shahada 8. What does ‘Islam’ literally mean? Reveal Answer Submission (to the will of God) 9. What is the cube-shaped structure that Muslims circle during the Hajj? Reveal Answer Kaaba 10. What is the second holiest city in Islam? Reveal Answer Medina 11. What do Muslims believe about the Prophet Muhammad? Reveal Answer He is the last and final messenger of God 12. What is the Islamic law called? Reveal Answer Sharia 13. Who was the first caliph after Prophet Muhammad’s death? Reveal Answer Abu Bakr 14. Which Angel delivered the revelation of the Quran to Muhammad? Reveal Answer Angel Gabriel 15. Which day of the week is considered the day of congregational worship in Islam? Reveal Answer Friday 16. What is the word for ‘peace’ in Arabic, commonly used as a greeting among Muslims? Reveal Answer Salam 17. Who was the prophet’s first wife? Reveal Answer Khadijah 18. What are the dietary laws of Islam called? Reveal Answer Halal 19. What is the Islamic term for the concept of God’s divine will and predestination? Reveal Answer Qadr 20. How is Jesus viewed in Islam? Reveal Answer As a prophet and messiah, but not divine 21. What is the Islamic spiritual practice of chanting God’s names or phrases from the Quran called? Reveal Answer Dhikr 22. What is the ritual washing performed before prayer called? Reveal Answer Wudu 23. What is the Islamic term for ‘charity’? Reveal Answer Sadaqah 24. What are the five pillars of Islam? Reveal Answer Shahada (Faith), Salat (Prayer), Zakat (Charity), Sawm (Fasting during Ramadan), Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca) 25. Which caliph is known as the ‘rightly guided’ one in Sunni Islam? Reveal Answer The first four caliphs: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali 26. What is the Islamic term for modest dressing? Reveal Answer Hijab 27. Who are referred to as Ahl al-Kitab in the Quran? Reveal Answer People of the Book, primarily Jews and Christians 28. Who was the longest-reigning caliph in the history of Islam? Reveal Answer Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz 29. What is the major difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims? Reveal Answer The dispute over who should have succeeded Prophet Muhammad as the leader of the Muslim community 30. Which country has the largest Muslim population? Reveal Answer Indonesia 31. What are the spiritual leaders of a mosque called? Reveal Answer Imams 32. What is the journey that Muhammad took from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended to heaven called? Reveal Answer Isra and Mi’raj Reveal Answer Ummah 34. Who was the archangel who first appeared to Muhammad? Reveal Answer Gabriel 35. What is the largest branch of Islam globally? Reveal Answer Sunni Islam 36. What is the doctrine of monotheism in Islam called? Reveal Answer Tawhid 37. What is the largest sect within Shia Islam? Reveal Answer Twelvers or Ithna’ashariyyah 38. Who is the founder of the Sufi Order? Reveal Answer There is no single founder, as Sufism developed organically within Islam over centuries 39. What do Muslims call their place of worship? Reveal Answer A Mosque or Masjid 40. What does ‘Jihad’ literally mean? Reveal Answer Struggle or striving 41. What does ‘Allahu Akbar’ mean? Reveal Answer God is greatest 42. What is the largest minority sect of Islam? Reveal Answer Shia Islam 43. What is the term for Islamic mysticism? Reveal Answer Sufism Reveal Answer Abu Bakr, as the first Caliph 45. Which Islamic empire ruled Spain for over 700 years? Reveal Answer The Umayyad Caliphate 46. Which Muslim philosopher is known as ‘the Second Teacher’ after Aristotle? Reveal Answer Al-Farabi 47. What is the name of the Muslim declaration of belief in the oneness of God and the acceptance of Muhammad as God’s prophet? Reveal Answer Shahada 48. Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire? Reveal Answer Osman I 49. What was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate? Reveal Answer Baghdad 50. What is the term for the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that every adult Muslim must undertake at least once in their life if they can afford it? Reveal Answer Hajj 51. What is the Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan? Reveal Answer Eid al-Fitr 52. Who was the mother of Jesus according to Islamic tradition? Reveal Answer Mary, or Maryam in Arabic 53. What is the most widely followed madhab (school of Islamic jurisprudence) in the world? Reveal Answer The Hanafi school 54. What is the name of the Islamic equivalent of hell? Reveal Answer Jahannam 55. What is the Islamic term for angels? Reveal Answer Malaikah 56. What is the Islamic term for the ‘Day of Judgment’? Reveal Answer Yawm al-Qiyamah 57. Who is the angel of death in Islamic belief? Reveal Answer Angel Azrael 58. What is the term for the Islamic legal opinion given by a qualified jurist? Reveal Answer Fatwa 59. What is the term for a sermon given by an Imam in Islam? Reveal Answer Khutbah 60. What is the traditional Islamic form of wrestling called? Reveal Answer Kushti 61. What is the night during Ramadan when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad called? Reveal Answer Laylat al-Qadr, or the Night of Power 62. What is the term for the migration of Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE? Reveal Answer Hijrah 63. What is the Islamic term for ‘sin’? Reveal Answer Ithm or Dhanb 64. Who was the famous Muslim traveler who wrote extensively about his journeys across Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 14th century? Reveal Answer Ibn Battuta 65. Which Islamic scholar wrote the famous medical encyclopedia ‘The Canon of Medicine’? Reveal Answer Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 66. What is the term for the Islamic concept of ‘doing good’? Reveal Answer Ihsan 67. What is the name of the annual Islamic feast of sacrifice? Reveal Answer Eid al-Adha 68. What is the Islamic view of Adam? Reveal Answer He is considered the first human and the first prophet 69. What was the first mosque in the history of Islam? Reveal Answer Quba Mosque 70. What is the name of the black stone embedded in the eastern corner of the Kaaba? Reveal Answer Hajr al-Aswad 71. What is the Islamic term for ‘paradise’? Reveal Answer Jannah 72. Who was the Persian poet who wrote the Mathnawi, often referred to as the ‘Quran in Persian’? Reveal Answer Rumi 73. What is the concept of ‘greater jihad’ in Islam? Reveal Answer The spiritual struggle within oneself against sin 74. What is the literal meaning of the Arabic word ‘Iman’? Reveal Answer Faith or belief 75. Which Islamic dynasty built the Alhambra palace in Spain? Reveal Answer The Nasrid Dynasty 76. What are Muslims expected to say upon hearing the name of the Prophet Muhammad? Reveal Answer ‘Peace be upon him’ or ‘Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam’ in Arabic 77. What are the three main categories of Tawhid in Islamic theology? Reveal Answer Tawhid ar-Rububiyyah (Oneness of God’s Lordship), Tawhid al-Asma wa’s-Sifat (Oneness of God’s Names and Attributes), and Tawhid al-‘Ibadah (Oneness of Worship) 78. What is the Islamic term for voluntary fasting beyond Ramadan? Reveal Answer Sawm al-Tatawwu 79. Who are the Ash’ari and Maturidi in the context of Islamic theology? Reveal Answer They are two main schools of Sunni theological thought 80. Which chapter (surah) of the Quran is recited in every unit of the Muslim prayer? Reveal Answer Surah Al-Fatiha 81. What is the sacred night on which the first verses of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad, according to Islamic belief? Reveal Answer Laylat al-Qadr 82. What is the Islamic term for the divine decree and predestination? Reveal Answer Al-Qadr 83. What is the Islamic term for the miraculous journey of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and then to heaven? Reveal Answer Isra and Mi’raj 84. What is the Islamic term for a ‘scholar’? Reveal Answer Alim 85. What is the name of the ‘Throne Verse’ in the Quran, considered one of the most powerful verses? Reveal Answer Ayat al-Kursi 86. Who was the first martyr in Islam? Reveal Answer Sumayyah bint Khabbab, a female companion of Prophet Muhammad 87. Which companion of Prophet Muhammad is known as the ‘scribe of the Prophet’? Reveal Answer Zaid ibn Thabit 88. Which surah (chapter) of the Quran is named after a prophet’s mother? Reveal Answer Surah Maryam, named after Mary, the mother of Jesus 89. What is the name of the Muslim calendar? Reveal Answer Hijri Calendar 90. What does ‘Rabi’ul-Awwal’, the third month of the Islamic calendar, signify for Muslims? Reveal Answer It is believed to be the month of the birth of Prophet Muhammad 91. What is the Islamic term for ‘charity’? Reveal Answer Sadaqah 92. What is the name of the Islamic law system? Reveal Answer Sharia 93. What are the five pillars of Islam? Reveal Answer Shahada (Faith), Salat (Prayer), Zakat (Charity), Sawm (Fasting during Ramadan), and Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca) 94. Which is the longest Surah (chapter) in the Quran? Reveal Answer Surah Al-Baqarah 95. Who are the ‘People of the Book’ in Islam? Reveal Answer They are Jews, Christians, and Sabians 96. What is the name of the wall in which Muslims face when performing prayers? Reveal Answer The Qibla wall 97. What is the term used to refer to the sayings and actions of Prophet Muhammad? Reveal Answer Hadith 98. Who is the Angel Jibril in Islamic tradition? Reveal Answer He is the Angel Gabriel, the main angel who revealed the Quran to Prophet Muhammad 99. What is the title given to the caliphs who were Prophet Muhammad’s immediate successors? Reveal Answer The Rashidun, or ‘rightly guided’ caliphs 100. What is the second holiest city in Islam after Mecca? Reveal Answer Medina 101. What is the name of the cube-shaped building in Mecca that Muslims circle during the Hajj? Reveal Answer The Kaaba 102. What does the term ‘Shi’a’ mean in Arabic? Reveal Answer ‘Partisan’ or ‘follower’, referring to the followers of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law 103. What is the primary difference between Sunni and Shi’a Islam? Reveal Answer The main difference is over who should have succeeded Prophet Muhammad as the leader of the Muslim community after his death 104. What is the literal meaning of the Arabic word ‘Salat’? Reveal Answer Prayer 105. Who was the famous Muslim mathematician who is known as the ‘father of algebra’? Reveal Answer Al-Khwarizmi 106. Which companion of Prophet Muhammad was the first to publicly recite the Quran in Mecca? Reveal Answer Bilal ibn Rabah 107. What is the term for the collection of biographies of Prophet Muhammad and his companions? Reveal Answer Sira literature 108. What is the term for the belief in and worship of a single God in Islam? Reveal Answer Tawhid 109. What is the Islamic term for ‘supplication’ or ‘invocation’? Reveal Answer Dua 110. What is the Islamic term for the recitation of the Quran in the form of prayer? Reveal Answer Tilawah 111. What is the name of the first Surah (chapter) in the Quran? Reveal Answer Surah Al-Fatiha 112. What is the term for ‘God-consciousness’ in Islam? Reveal Answer Taqwa 113. What is the term for the ‘compulsory religious duty’ in Islam? Reveal Answer Fard Reveal Answer Ummah 115. What is the name of the Muslim prayer that is performed just after sunset? Reveal Answer Maghrib 116. Who was the third caliph of Islam? Reveal Answer Uthman ibn Affan 117. What is the term for the Islamic dietary laws? Reveal Answer Halal 118. What is the name of the Islamic month of fasting? Reveal Answer Ramadan 119. What is the term for ‘struggle in the path of God’ in Islam? Reveal Answer Jihad 120. What is the name of the morning prayer in Islam? Reveal Answer Fajr 121. What is the Arabic term for ‘the peace’? Reveal Answer As-Salam Reveal Answer Imam 123. What is the term for the Islamic call to prayer? Reveal Answer Adhan 124. What is the term for a mosque’s tower from which the call to prayer is announced? Reveal Answer Minaret 125. What is the name of the Islamic creed? Reveal Answer Shahada 126. Who was the first caliph of Islam? Reveal Answer Abu Bakr 127. What is the Islamic term for ‘giving thanks to God’? Reveal Answer Shukr 128. Who is considered the last prophet in Islam? Reveal Answer Muhammad 129. Who was the famous Muslim philosopher and physician known as the ‘Prince of Physicians’? Reveal Answer Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 130. What is the term for an Islamic theological school? Reveal Answer Madrasa 131. What is the term for the Islamic rule of conduct? Reveal Answer Sharia Law 132. What is the term for the obligatory alms-giving in Islam? Reveal Answer Zakat 133. What is the term for a pilgrimage to Mecca, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam? Reveal Answer Hajj 134. What is the term for the Muslim declaration of faith? Reveal Answer Shahada 135. What is the term for the Islamic scholar who interprets and expounds Islamic law (Sharia and Fiqh)? Reveal Answer Mufti 136. What is the term for the Islamic pilgrimage rites performed at any time of the year, in contrast to the Hajj? Reveal Answer Umrah 137. What is the term for the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin in Islam? Reveal Answer Jihad an-Nafs 138. What is the term for a chapter in the Quran? Reveal Answer Surah 139. What is the term for a verse in the Quran? Reveal Answer Ayah 140. What is the Islamic term for ‘monotheism’, or the belief in the oneness of God? Reveal Answer Tawhid 141. What is the term for a voluntary act of worship in Islam, which supplements the obligatory acts? Reveal Answer Sunnah Sharing is Caring:
