Islam: God and Ultimate Reality | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)
Islam: God and Ultimate Reality
- 106 questions
- 8 subtopics
- Component 2: Islam, one religion of five
- Component 2
Islam: how ultimate reality is understood and described.
Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Islam as their chosen religion.
Sample questions from Islam: God and Ultimate Reality
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Tawhid and Shirk
Explain what is meant by calling God transcendent.
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He is wholly beyond and unlike His creation, and is not limited by time, space or matter. -
The Throne Verse
What does the Throne verse teach about intercession?
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No one can intercede with God except by His permission, so no being has independent power to influence Him. -
The Ninety-Nine Names of God
From what root do both those names come, and what does it suggest?
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Both come from a root also connected with the womb, suggesting a protective and nurturing mercy. -
Anthropomorphic Language and Ta'wil
What further Mutazili doctrine followed from their view of God’s attributes?
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They held the Qur’an to be created rather than eternal, since an eternal attribute existing alongside God would compromise His unity. -
Sufism: Tasawwuf, Tariqa and Dhikr
Which much-loved saying explains why God created, in Sufi teaching?
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The saying that God was a hidden treasure who wished to be known, and so brought creation into being. -
The Verse of Light
Why is light chosen as an image for God?
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Light makes everything else visible while being hard to look at directly, which mirrors God as the source of all being and yet beyond sight. -
Al-Qadr and the Preserved Tablet
How does the Qur’an itself hold both sides together?
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It insists that God creates and controls all things while also commanding people to choose and holding them accountable for choosing. -
Bada and Living with Al-Qadr
Give two religious purposes Bada is said to serve.
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It shows that God remains actively sovereign rather than bound by His own past decree, and it makes prayer, charity and repentance genuinely able to alter a person’s destiny.
The 8 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Tawhid and Shirk | Recall questions on the meaning of Tawhid, what shirk is and why it is the gravest sin, and the surah taken as its clearest statement. | 15 |
| The Throne Verse | Recall questions on how Tawhid shapes daily life, the name given to 2:255, the two divine names opening it and what it denies of God. | 9 |
| The Ninety-Nine Names of God | Recall questions on what the divine names are called, the purpose they serve, and the two that open almost every surah and their shared root. | 11 |
| Anthropomorphic Language and Ta'wil | Recall questions on anthropomorphic language about God, the problem it creates, the two errors theologians avoid and the meaning of ta'wil. | 17 |
| Sufism: Tasawwuf, Tariqa and Dhikr | Recall questions on tasawwuf, tariqa and dhikr, creation as emanation, wahdat al-wujud, fana and baqa, the early mystics and al-Ghazali, and the criticisms other Muslims make of Sufism. | 20 |
| The Verse of Light | Recall questions on the name given to 24:35, the image it uses, why light stands for God and how Sufis read the niche, glass and lamp. | 8 |
| Al-Qadr and the Preserved Tablet | Recall questions on what Al-Qadr means, its place in Sunni belief, the Preserved Tablet and the everyday phrases expressing it. | 17 |
| Bada and Living with Al-Qadr | Recall questions on the Shi'a concept of Bada, its Qur'anic support and the Sunni objection to it, and on how belief in Al-Qadr bears on bereavement, action and sin. | 9 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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