RS YR 8 EXAM

• Hajj is a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca
• Hijab is a term meaning veil but is more commonly referred to as a headscarf
• A niqab is a veil that goes over your face buts not your eyes
• Sawm is fasting during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan
• Muslims have to pray towards the Ka'aba in Mecca
• When a butcher does halal slaughter he has to say God is great 3 times
• Shahadah is the declaration of faith that there is one God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God
• The five pillars are Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj
• Shi'a muslims fast longer than Sunni Muslims
• The rules for halal slaughter are:

  Clean a sharp knife

  Throat of animal cut in a continuous motion

  Leave animal to bleed
• Foods and drinks that are haram:

  Dead meat

  Blood

  Intoxicating drinks

  Pork

  Meat of an animal that has been sacrificed to idols

  Animal that died from strangulation or blunt force

  Meat that animals have already eaten from
• Zakah is giving away 2.5% of your wealth to charity
• Salah is saying 5 daily prayers
• Shi'as pray on a brick called the turbah, with their hands by their sides, and 5 prayers grouped into 3 sessions, while Sunnis do not do that.
• The book of Job deals with a man that loses everything to test his faith in God
• The four noble truths of Buddhism are: 1. The truth of suffering 2. The truth of the cause of suffering 3. The truth of the end of suffering 4. The truth of the path leading to the end of suffering
• Moral evil is evil caused by humans
• Buddhist Eightfold Path:

  Right Understanding

  Right Motive

  Right Speech

  Right Effort

  Right Livelihood

  Right Action

  Right Mindfulness

  Right Meditation
• The soul making theodicy is that God made humans imperfectly, so that they can follow God with their own free will
• Theodicy is a religious way of solving the problem of evil
• Irenaeus is associated with the soul making theodicy
• a parable is a story told by Jesus to his followers
• An example of a parable is the good samaritan
• The soul deciding theodicy is that humans were made perfect and given free will, but used it to do evil and trun away from God
• Hick is associated with the vale of soul making
• Job learnt that God has a plan we cannot understand and we should be grateful him
• Natural evil is suffering caused by natural events
• The vale of soul making is similar to the soul making theodicy, but he developed it so the humans develop virtues, making them more valuable than if they are god given
• Augustine is associated with the soul deciding theodicy