Lesson 4: Why should we learn about these events?

1.    Ghayb means

• Pious

• Resurrection

• Unseen

• Destiny

2.    Doomsday, will be witnessed by only the best of people.

• True

• False

3.    Allah encourages us in the Quran to observe the creation and thus each Muslim can be a scientist.

• True

• False

4.    Which of these statements are true. Select all correct options.

• Muslims must spend their lives engrossed in their daily activities and routines, there is no need to spend time thinking about all the creations or the Creator

• Muslims think and ponder on Allah’s amazing creation

• Muslims should have unimaginative minds

• The focus of our lives should food, drink and pleasure.

• Muslims think and appreciate everything around them.

The End of the World means that only the earth will be destroyed but the solar system and the rest of the universe will remain as it is.

• True

• False

  Why should we bother to understand events of the future that we will not see, like the Last Day and the Day of Judgment?  Select all correct options.

• Learning about these events will reduce our fear about the Day of Judgment.

• Keeps us focused on Akhirah

• Makes us appreciate Allah’s infinite Power and Might

• Allah gave us a chance to build shelters which can withstand the tremors and terrors of the Last Day

• To satisfy our curiosity

The Qur’an is full of scientific miracles which science discovers later. 

• True

• False

Belief in the ‘ghayb’ is :

• Not recommended in Islam

•  

  A quality of the superstitious people

•  

  A quality of the disbelievers

•  

  A quality of the pious

Denying the Day of Judgment will atleast prevent it from happening to us.

• True

• False

  What is the evidence that the Day of Judgement will take place?

• It was predicted by many fortune-tellers

•   Many movies have been made about it so it must be true.

•  

  Allah says in the Qur’an that it will take place.

•   Scientific and geological evidence shows that it will happen.

• Its knowledge is present in our fitrah.