Islamic-Religious-Knowledge Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Islamic Religious Studies, otherwise known as Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK), is the subject concerned with the study of the Islamic religion.

• Question 721: In order to make Tawāf, you are required to keep the ka’abah to your Options:
  A) left and go round it in an anticlockwise direction
  B) right and go round it in a clockwise direction
  C) left and go round it in a clockwise direction
  D) right and move round it in an anticlockwise direction
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 722: ‘If ye do it not, take notice of war from ‘Allah and His Apostle: But if ye turn back,ye shall have your capital sums …’ (Q.2:279)The quotation above warns against Options:
  A) cheating
  B) fraud
  C) usury
  D) gambling
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 723: Compared with the situation in Makkah before Hijrad, the da’wah in al-Madina was more Options:
  A) persecution oriented
  B) of an internal affair of believers
  C) far-reaching
  D) intensive but less successful
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 724: By the first pact of al-‘Aqabah. The delegates promised Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) to become Options:
  A) defenders of Islam
  B) helpers of Muslims
  C) servants of the Prophet
  D) believers in ‘Allāh.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 725: A worshiper who remembers that he missed an obligatory step of ablution after he had finished praying will have to repeat Options:
  A) only the ablution
  B) only the obligatory step
  C) nothing after all D. the ablution and the
  D) the ablution and the prayer.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 726: Which of the following Prophets was an ancestor of both Arabs and Jews? Options:
  A) īsā
  B) Dāwd
  C) Ayyūb
  D) Ibrāhīm
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 727:

  Seeking assistance from the fortune tellers is forbidden because

  Options:
  A) it gives one an insight of what tomorrow holds
  B) it creates animosity amongst people
  C) it leads to ascribing absolute power to a fellow being
  D) it's proceed is unlawful
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 728: One of the conditions of Sunni talāq is that it must be pronounced Options:
  A) three times consecutively
  B) by the mother-in-law
  C) when the wife is free from menstruation
  D) with the free consent of the wife.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 729:

  The capital of an ancient Ghana empire was

  Options:
  A) Awkar
  B) Awdaghast
  C) Jenne
  D) Sijilmasa
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 730: The text of talbiyah in hājj emphasizes the pilgrim’s Options:
  A) readiness to observe the rites of ℎājj to the end
  B) realization of the uniqueness of the rites of ℎājj
  C) recognition of Allah’s absolute authority
  D) aspiration for a reward
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  The correct answer is C .