AN ISLAM IQ TEST

[infidel]

1.The Qur'an refers to people, places, things and events which are nowhere
explained or defined within the Qur'an itself. True ____ False ____


2.These things were not explained because it was assumed that the people
hearing the Qur'an already knew of them. True ____ False ____


3.Some passages in the Qur'an would be unintelligible without recourse to pre-
Islamic history. True ____ False ____


4.All Islamic scholars use pre-Islamic history to explain parts of the Qur'an.
True ____ False ____


5.Thus it is both legitimate and proper to use pre-Islamic history to explain
the Qur'an. True ____ False ____


6.Yusuf Ali does this when it comes to such things as the she-camel, the
elephant army, the twelve springs, the youths in the face, the blind man, and
many other things found in the Qur'an. True ____ False ____


7.Mecca was a pre-Islamic pagan center of worship. True ____ False ____


8.The Kabah in Mecca was a pagan temple, filled with 360 idols. True ____ False
____


9.Archeologists have found three other ancient Kabahs in Arabia. True ____
False ____


10.The Pagans prayed by bowing down toward Mecca several times a day. True ____
False ____


11.They made a pirgrimage to Mecca. True ____ False ____


12.When they got to Mecca, they ran between two hills. True ____ False ____


13.They ran around the Kabah seven times. True ____ False ____


14.They kissed and caressed a large black stone on the wall of the Kabah. True
____ False ____


15.They sacrificed an animal. True ____ False ____


16.They threw a magical number of stones at a pillar of the Devil. True ____
False ____


17.They held their public meetings on Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday.
True ____ False ____


18.They fasted during the day and feasted at night for one month. True ____
False ____


19.The pagan fast began and ended with the moon in its crescent phase. True
____ False ____


20.They gave alms to the poor. True ____ False ____


21.They performed ritual washings before prayers. True ____ False ____


22.As one of their washings before prayer, they snorted water up and then out
of their noses. True ____ False ____.


23.They cut off the hands of thieves. True ____ False ____


24.They forbade marrying sisters. True ____ False ____


25.They forbade the eating of swine flesh. True ____ False ____


26.In pre-Islamic Arabian geneologies, Ishmael is nowhere mentioned as the
father of the Arabs. True ____ False ____


27.Abraham, the father of Ishmael, was not an Arab. True ____ False ____


28.Haga, the mother of Ishmael, was an Egyptian and not an Arab. True ____
False ____


29.Since his mother and father were not Arabs, Ishmael was not an Arab. True
____ False ____


30.Ishamel could not be the "father of the Arabs" because they already existed
before he was born. True ____ False ____


31.According to the historical and literary evidence, Abraham and Ishmael lived
in Palestine. True ____ False ____


32.They never lived in Mecca. True ____ False ____


33.They never built the Kabah. True ____ False ____


34.They never established the rituals connected with the Kabah such as the
pilgrimage. True ____ False ____


35.According to Arab history, the Kabah at Mecca was built by Kosia, the pagan
great grandfather of Muhammad. True ____ False ____


36.The title "Al-Ilah" was used by pagan Arabs in reference to one of the gods
worshipped at the Kabah. True ____ False ____


37.The word "Al-Ilah" was shortened into "Allah." True ____ False ____


38.The moon-god wascalled "Al-Ilah" and then "Allah" by some Arab pagans in
southern Arabia. True ____ False ____


39.Al-lat, Al-uzza, and Manat were worhipped by the pagan Arabs as "the
daughters of Allah." True ____ False ____


40.Muhammad's father lived and died as a pagan and yet the word "Allah" was
part of his name. True ____ False ____


41.Yusuf Ali points out in his translation of the Qur'an that the moon was
worshipped as a god by pagan Arabs. True ____ False ____


42.Many of the pagan rituals associated with the worship of Allah and his
daughters were incorporated into the Qur'an and are now part of Islam. True
____ False ____


43.The religion of Islam has adopted the name, the rituals, and the crescent
moon symbol of the pagan Arab moon-god. True ____ False ____


44.Some of the material found in the Qur'an can be traced back to pre-Islamic
pagan Arabic religions. True ____ False ____


45.The peopel of Muhammad's day are recorded in the Qur'an as saying that
Muhammad took old wive's tales and myths and put them into the Qur'an. True
____ False ____


46.The Qur'an warns against asking questions about Islam because if the answers
are revealed, you will lose your faith in Islam. True ____ False ____