Key term
AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife
- 4 subtopics
- 14 things to know
- Component 2
- Islam, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife covers
Islam: the self, the purpose of life, and what is held to follow death. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Islam as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Islam, one faith of five — the study of religion.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 4 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Ibadah and NiyyahRecall questions on why God created jinn and human beings, what ibadah covers, how ordinary work becomes worship and why intention matters.Open →
- Dunya and AkhirahRecall questions on the distinction between this world and the next, how the Qur'an compares them and the arguments over the value of this life.Open →
- The Soul, Barzakh and ResurrectionRecall questions on ruh and nafs and the three states of the nafs, death and burial, Barzakh and the grave, and bodily resurrection including al-Ghazali's reply to the philosophers.Open →
- Judgement, Paradise and HellRecall questions on judgement and shafa'ah, the sin God does not forgive, the Qur'anic descriptions of paradise and hell, literal and symbolic readings and the debate over the eternity of hell.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Give two very different forms the test of life can take.
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How does the Islamic view of the newborn differ from the doctrine of original sin?
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Distinguish between dunya and Akhirah.
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Why is withdrawal from the world discouraged in Islam?
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Which well-known Qur’anic prayer holds the two lives together?
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Distinguish between ruh and nafs.
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Why is cremation forbidden?
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What brings Barzakh to an end?
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Name the Arabic terms for paradise and for hell.
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Give two features of the Qur’anic descriptions of hell.
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Give the case for reading the descriptions of heaven and hell literally.
Process
Why does God require worship, why must choice be real, and what is the human role?
Process
How does the Qur'an regard this world, and what does the Prophet's life show?
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Commonly confused
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Ruh vs Nafs
Ruh: the spirit breathed into a person by God. Nafs: the self or soul that inclines a person towards good or evil.
Barzakh vs Akhirah
Barzakh: the intermediate state between death and resurrection. Akhirah: the life to come after resurrection and judgement.
Yawm al-Qiyamah vs Barzakh
Yawm al-Qiyamah: the Day of Resurrection when the dead are raised. Barzakh: the intermediate state between death and resurrection.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
According to the Qur’an, why did God create jinn and human beings?
Model answer
So that they would worship and serve Him.
- 2
Define ibadah.
Model answer
It is worship or service of God, covering both formal ritual and the whole of an obedient life.
- 3
Explain how an ordinary action such as work can count as worship.
Model answer
If the action is lawful and is done with the intention of pleasing God, the action itself becomes an act of worship.
- 4
Explain what niyyah is and why it matters.
Model answer
It is the intention formed before an act, and it determines whether the act counts as worship at all.
- 5
Why is worship not something God needs?
Model answer
God is entirely self-sufficient, so worship benefits the worshipper by ordering their whole life towards Him.
- 6
How does the Qur’an link life and death to testing?
Model answer
It teaches that God created death and life in order to test which people act best.
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Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife revision questions
- What does Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 4 subtopics: ibadah and niyyah, dunya and akhirah, the soul, barzakh and resurrection and judgement, paradise and hell. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Islam: Self, Death and the Afterlife organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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