Islamic Studies
Islamic Studies MCQs with Answers and Explanations
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What Quranic teaching explicitly condemned the pre-Islamic Arabian practice of female infanticide?
AVerses condemning the burying alive of infant daughters (e.g., Surah At-Takwir 81:8-9)
BThere is no such teaching
CIt was only discouraged, not condemned
DIt refers only to male infants
What is the Islamic term for unlawful killing/spreading mischief, explicitly condemned by mainstream Islamic scholarship as contrary to Quranic teaching?
AJihad
BFasad fil-Ard (spreading corruption/mischief on Earth)
CIjtihad
DDa'wah
What is the waiting period a woman observes after divorce or her husband’s death before remarrying called?
AIddah
BNikah
CKhula
DMahr
Which companion completes the traditional list of the Asharah Mubashareen (Ten Promised Paradise) alongside Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (RA)?
ASa'id ibn Zaid (RA)
BAnas ibn Malik (RA)
CHudhaifah ibn al-Yaman (RA)
DZaid ibn Thabit (RA)
What is the process of independent legal reasoning by a qualified scholar to derive a ruling on a new issue called?
ATaqleed
BIjtihad
CIjma
DFatwa
What right did Islamic law grant women regarding education, encouraged from the Prophet’s (PBUH) time onward?
AThe right and encouragement to seek knowledge, considered obligatory for both men and women
BWomen were prohibited from learning
COnly religious education, not general knowledge
DOnly for the wives of the Prophet (PBUH)
What is the Arabic term for the peaceful, non-coercive invitation to Islam?
AJihad
BDa'wah
CFatwa
DIjtihad
What Islamic teaching addresses the rights and care owed to parents, especially in old age?
ABirr-ul-Walidayn (kindness/dutifulness to parents)
BRiba
CIjma
DQiyas
Which companion was specifically entrusted by the Prophet (PBUH) with the secret names of the hypocrites (Munafiqun) in Madinah?
AHudhaifah ibn al-Yaman (RA)
BZaid ibn Thabit (RA)
CAnas ibn Malik (RA)
DSalman al-Farsi (RA)
What is the opposite of Ijtihad — the practice of following an established scholarly opinion without independently re-deriving it — called?
AIjma
BQiyas
CTaqleed
DIstihsan