Major themes of the Qur’an: past paper questions

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• Question 1May/June 2026, paper 11Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qurʾan. (i) Sura 112 1. Say: He is Allah, the one and only; 2.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2025, paper 11Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an, and (i) Sura 6.101–103 101. To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: how can He have a son when He has no consort?

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2024, paper 11Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ لَا تَسْجُدُوا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُنَّ إِن كُنتُمْ إِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُونَ Sura 41.37 37.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 11Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 2.255 Allah. There is no god but He, the living, the self-subsisting, eternal.

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• Question 1May/June 2026, paper 12Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qurʾan. (i) Sura 96.1–5 1. Read!

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2025, paper 12Structured8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 6.75–79 75. So also did We show Abraham the power and the laws of the heavens and the earth, so that he might have certainty.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2024, paper 12Structured8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 42.4–5 4. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: and He is most high, most great.

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2023, paper 11Essay14 marks

  Using the set passages you have studied, write about God’s relationship with the created world.

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2025, paper 12Structured14 marks

  Write about how God describes Himself.

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• Question 1May/June 2024, paper 11Structured8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 96.1–5 1. Read!

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 6.101–103 101. To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: how can He have a son when He has no consort?

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• Question 2May/June 2024, paper 11Structured14 marks

  Write about how God describes Himself using: (i) Sura 6.101–103 (al-Anʾam) (ii) Sura 41.37 (Fussilat) (iii) Sura 42.4–5 (ash-Shura).

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured14 marks

  Using the set passages you have studied, outline the relationship between God and his Messengers: Adam and Abraham.

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• Question 2May/June 2025, paper 11Essay14 marks

  Using passages you have studied, describe God’s relationship with His Messengers Jesus ( ͑ Isa) and Muhammad (pbuh).

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 11Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ، مَلِكِ النَّاسِ، إِلَهِ النَّاسِ، مِن شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ Sura 114 1.

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• Question 1May/June 2025, paper 12Structured8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an, and: (i) Sura 112 1. Say: He is Allah, the one and only; 2. Allah, the eternal, absolute; 3.

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 12Essay8 marksHas a diagram

  Choose any two of the following passages from the Qur’an. (i) Sura 41.37 37. Among His signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon.

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• Question 2May/June 2025, paper 12Structured14 marks

  Using the following set passages, write about God’s blessings and control of the created world: 2.21–22, 96.1–5, 99 and 114.

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