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 61:

  A pilgrim circumnutates around the Ha'abah _____

  Options:
  A) Three times
  B) Six times
  C) Seven times
  D) Eight times
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 62: The jurist who made Tasawwuf compatible with the Shari'ah was Options:
  A) ibn Sina
  B) ibn Khaldūn
  C) Ar-Rāzi
  D) al-Ghazālī
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 63: The pre-Islamic practice of shigār which was abolished by Islam meant Options:
  A) trade by barter
  B) exchange of female slaves
  C) exchange of sisters in wedlock
  D) gambling.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 64: Those to benefit from the proceeds of Zakah include Options:
  A) old men and women
  B) officers employed to administer it
  C) under-aged children
  D) self-employed low-income earners
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 65:

  The prophet whose wife was impious and consequently suffered the same calamity with the unbelievers was

  Options:
  A) Mūsa
  B) Lūt
  C) Yūsuf
  D) Shu'aib
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 66:

  The attributes of Allah as contained in Q.59:23 are

  Options:
  A) 5
  B) 6
  C) 7
  D) 8
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 67:

  One of the following is not required in Umrah?

  Options:
  A) Arafat
  B) Miqat
  C) Sa'y
  D) Talbiyyah
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 68: The number of lashes prescribed for the consumption of alcohol is Options:
  A) forty
  B) sixty
  C) eighty
  D) hundred
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 69: 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 70:

  The first young person to accept Islam was?

  Options:
  A) Muawiyah
  B) Umar Bn Khattab
  C) Ali Bn Abi Talib
  D) Uthman
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  The correct answer is D .