Grade 5Islamic Religious Education

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 5 Islamic Religious Education curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Qur'anOne topic and the biggest on the page: the selected chapters, with seventy-two questions on them.1 topic·72 questions

  • Selected Chapters (Surah)

    5 skills

    The selected Surah: reading them, what they mean, and committing them to memory.

2HadithFour short topics on the sayings, each one about conduct a child can practise the same day.4 topics·53 questions

  • Hadith on Good Behaviour

    4 skills

    What the Hadith asks of a person's manners.

  • Hadith on Greetings

    3 skills

    The greeting, its reply, and why it is owed.

  • Hadith on Knowledge

    3 skills

    The standing of learning, and the duty to seek it.

  • Hadith on Gratitude

    3 skills

    Thankfulness, to Allah and to people.

3Pillars of ImanFour topics on what is believed: Allah, the angels, the prophets, and the miracles given to them.4 topics·75 questions

  • Belief in Allah

    4 skills

    The foundation of the faith, and the attributes named in it.

  • Belief in Angels

    4 skills

    Who they are and what they are charged with.

  • Belief in Prophets

    3 skills

    The prophets, and what they were sent to do.

  • Miracles of Prophets

    3 skills

    The miracles given to particular prophets, and what each one showed. One of the larger topics here.

4Devotional ActsSix topics on worship in practice: what spoils a prayer or a fast, the optional prayers, charity, and Saum.6 topics·67 questions

  • Nullifiers of Swalah

    4 skills

    What invalidates a prayer, and how to avoid it.

  • Sunnah (Optional) Prayers

    3 skills

    The optional prayers, and when they are offered.

  • Taraweeh and Witr

    4 skills

    The night prayers of Ramadan, and Witr.

  • Swadaqah (Charity)

    4 skills

    Giving, what counts as giving, and the manner of it.

  • Saum

    3 skills

    Fasting: who fasts, when, and what it is for.

  • Nullifiers of Saum (Fasting)

    3 skills

    What breaks a fast, deliberately and otherwise.

5Akhlaq (Moral Teachings)Four topics on character, including two about the world a child is in now.4 topics·40 questions

  • Virtues: Generosity

    3 skills

    Generosity as a habit rather than an occasion.

  • Effects of Social Media

    3 skills

    What it does well, what it does badly, and where the line is.

  • Prohibitions in Islam: Evils of Gambling

    3 skills

    Why gambling is forbidden, and what it does to a household.

  • Dua (Supplication): Dua on Increase in Knowledge

    4 skills

    The supplication for knowledge, and when to make it.

6Muamalat (Social Relations)Three topics on dealing with other people: at a wedding, next door, and in the market.3 topics·40 questions

  • Etiquette of Islamic Wedding Celebrations

    3 skills

    What is proper at a wedding, and what is not.

  • Rights of Neighbours

    3 skills

    What a neighbour is owed, whoever they are.

  • Islamic Rules on Buying and Selling

    3 skills

    Honest trade: weight, price and what must be disclosed.

7History of IslamFour topics covering the journey, the pledges, the migration and the agreement that followed it.4 topics·53 questions

  • Al-Isra wal Miraj

    3 skills

    The night journey and the ascension.

  • Pledges of Aqabah

    3 skills

    The pledges made at Aqabah, and what they committed people to.

  • Hijra to Madina

    3 skills

    The migration, why it happened and what it changed.

  • Constitution of Madina

    4 skills

    The agreement drawn up in Madina, and how it held different communities together.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 5 Islamic Religious Education curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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400 Grade 5 Islamic Religious Education questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.