Islamic Studies · Topic 4
The Hijri months, the dates of worship and when key rulings came.
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Try each question, then open the answer. MCQs 51–100 of 328.
51.How many fard rakats are there in the Maghrib prayer?
Answer: A. Three
Maghrib has three fard rakats.
52.How many fard rakats are there in the Friday (Jumuah) prayer?
Answer: C. Two
Jumuah has two fard rakats after the sermon.
53.Which prayer is offered during Ramadan nights after Isha?
Answer: D. Taraweeh
Taraweeh is prayed in Ramadan after the Isha prayer.
54.The prayer offered for rain is called what?
Answer: A. Salat-ul-Istisqa
Salat-ul-Istisqa is the prayer for rain.
55.The prayer offered to seek guidance in a decision is called what?
Answer: B. Salat-ul-Istikharah
Istikharah means seeking what is best from Allah.
56.The prayer offered during a solar eclipse is called what?
Answer: C. Salat-ul-Kusuf
Kusuf is the solar eclipse prayer; Khusuf is for a lunar eclipse.
57.The prayer offered in a state of war or danger is called what?
Answer: C. Salat-ul-Khauf
Salat-ul-Khauf is the prayer of fear, described in Surah An-Nisa.
58.The funeral prayer has how many takbirs?
Answer: D. Four
Salat-ul-Janazah is offered with four takbirs and no ruku or sujud.
59.Shortening the prayer while travelling is called what?
Answer: B. Qasr
Qasr is shortening four-rakat prayers to two on a journey.
60.What is the rate of Zakat on savings?
Answer: A. 2.5 per cent
Zakat on cash and trade goods is 2.5 per cent.
61.The minimum amount of wealth on which Zakat is due is called what?
Answer: C. Nisab
Zakat is due once savings reach the nisab and are held for a lunar year.
62.The nisab of gold for Zakat is how much?
Answer: C. 7.5 tolas
The nisab is 7.5 tolas of gold or 52.5 tolas of silver.
63.The nisab of silver for Zakat is how much?
Answer: D. 52.5 tolas
The silver nisab is 52.5 tolas.
64.Zakat on agricultural produce is called what?
Answer: B. Ushr
Ushr is a tenth (or a twentieth for irrigated land) of the harvest.
65.What is the Ushr rate on crops watered by rain?
Answer: D. 10 per cent
Rain-fed land pays a tenth; land watered by effort pays a twentieth (5 per cent).
66.Sadaqat-ul-Fitr must be paid before which prayer?
Answer: B. The Eid-ul-Fitr prayer
Sadaqat-ul-Fitr (fitrana) is paid before the Eid-ul-Fitr prayer.
67.How many categories of people can receive Zakat according to Surah At-Tawbah?
Answer: A. Eight
Surah At-Tawbah (verse 60) names eight categories of recipients.
68.In Pakistan, Zakat was deducted from bank accounts under an ordinance of which year?
Answer: D. 1980
The Zakat and Ushr Ordinance 1980 introduced deduction of Zakat at source.
69.The meal eaten before dawn during Ramadan is called what?
Answer: A. Sehri (Suhoor)
Sehri is eaten before Fajr; the fast is broken at Iftar.
70.The compensation for deliberately breaking a Ramadan fast without excuse is called what?
Answer: C. Kaffarah
Kaffarah is 60 days of continuous fasting (or feeding 60 poor people if unable), plus making up the fast.
71.The payment made by someone who cannot fast at all, such as the very old, is called what?
Answer: D. Fidyah
Fidyah is feeding a poor person for each missed fast.
72.The six voluntary fasts after Ramadan are kept in which month?
Answer: C. Shawwal
Sahih Muslim reports the virtue of six fasts in Shawwal.
73.Fasting is forbidden on which days?
Answer: C. The two Eids and the days of Tashriq
Fasting on Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha and the days of Tashriq is not allowed.
74.The garments worn by male pilgrims during Hajj are called what?
Answer: A. Ihram
Ihram is the state and dress of the pilgrim.
75.The points at which pilgrims must enter the state of Ihram are called what?
Answer: D. Miqat
The Miqat are the boundary stations for entering Ihram.
76.Walking seven times around the Kaaba is called what?
Answer: C. Tawaf
Tawaf is circling the Kaaba seven times.
77.Walking seven times between Safa and Marwah is called what?
Answer: C. Sa'i
Sa'i commemorates Hazrat Hajra's (AS) search for water.
78.Throwing pebbles at the pillars in Mina is called what?
Answer: D. Ramy (Rami-ul-Jimar)
Pilgrims stone the Jamarat at Mina.
79.Where do pilgrims spend the night after the Day of Arafah?
Answer: A. Muzdalifah
Pilgrims spend the night of 9–10 Zil-Hajjah at Muzdalifah.
80.The covering of the Kaaba is called what?
Answer: B. Kiswah
The black silk cloth covering the Kaaba is the Kiswah.
81.The semicircular wall beside the Kaaba is called what?
Answer: A. Hatim (Hijr Ismail)
The Hatim marks an area that was originally part of the Kaaba.
82.The well near the Kaaba from which pilgrims drink is called what?
Answer: A. Zamzam
The Zamzam well sprang up for Hazrat Hajra (AS) and Hazrat Ismail (AS).
83.The minor pilgrimage that can be performed at any time of year is called what?
Answer: C. Umrah
Umrah can be performed at any time; Hajj only on fixed days.
84.The farewell circling of the Kaaba before leaving Makkah is called what?
Answer: C. Tawaf-ul-Wida
Tawaf-ul-Wida is the last tawaf before departure.
85.Which tawaf is a pillar (rukn) of Hajj?
Answer: B. Tawaf-ul-Ifadah (Ziyarah)
Tawaf-ul-Ifadah, after Arafah, is an essential pillar of Hajj.
86.In which year was the Holy Kaaba rebuilt by the Quraish with the Holy Prophet (PBUH) placing the Black Stone?
Answer: D. About 605 CE
The Quraish rebuilt the Kaaba about five years before prophethood.
87.The idols in the Kaaba were removed in which year?
Answer: B. 8 AH
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) cleared the Kaaba of idols at the conquest of Makkah.
88.On which day of the week is the congregational Jumuah prayer offered?
Answer: D. Friday (Jumuah)
Friday is the day of the congregational Jumuah prayer.
89.On which day of the week was the Holy Prophet (PBUH) born?
Answer: A. Monday
Sahih Muslim reports that he was born on a Monday.
90.The Islamic New Year begins with which month?
Answer: A. Muharram
The Hijri New Year starts on 1 Muharram.
91.The 13th, 14th and 15th of each lunar month, on which fasting is recommended, are called what?
Answer: A. Ayyam-ul-Bid
The "white days" are the 13th to 15th, when the moon is full.
92.Which of these is the correct sequence of three months?
Answer: A. Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan
Rajab (7th), Shaban (8th) and Ramadan (9th) come in that order.
93.In which Hijri month did the Battle of Khandaq (the Trench) take place, according to the common view?
Answer: B. Shawwal
Most historians place it in Shawwal (some say Zil-Qadah), 5 AH.
94.The Treaty of Hudaibiyah was made in which month of 6 AH?
Answer: B. Zil-Qadah
The Muslims had set out for Umrah in Zil-Qadah.
95.The Holy Prophet (PBUH) arrived at Quba during the Hijrah in which month?
Answer: D. Rabi-ul-Awwal
He reached Quba in Rabi-ul-Awwal of the year of the Hijrah.
96.Why does the Hijri year start with Muharram even though the Hijrah took place in Rabi-ul-Awwal?
Answer: D. Muharram was already the first month of the Arab year
The companions kept the existing Arab order of months when they adopted the Hijri era.
97.The Battle of Tabuk expedition set out in which month of 9 AH?
Answer: C. Rajab
The army left for Tabuk in Rajab, during the summer heat.
98.The Holy Prophet (PBUH) performed the Farewell Hajj in which month of 10 AH?
Answer: C. Zil-Hajjah
He set out at the end of Zil-Qadah and performed Hajj in Zil-Hajjah.
99.Hazrat Umar (RA) was martyred in which month of 23 AH?
Answer: B. Zil-Hajjah
He was stabbed at the end of Zil-Hajjah and buried at the start of Muharram 24 AH.
100.Hazrat Usman (RA) was martyred in which month of 35 AH?
Answer: D. Zil-Hajjah
He was martyred on 18 Zil-Hajjah, 35 AH.
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