Grade 8Islamic Religious Education

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 8 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'anThe text itself: how it was kept, how it is arranged, and a passage studied closely.3 topics·45 questions

  • Modes of Preservation of the Qur'an

    4 skills

    How the text was kept unchanged: memorisation first, then writing.

  • Divisions of the Qur'an

    4 skills

    How the book is organised, and the vocabulary for finding your way around it.

  • Selected Verses (Al-Luqman 12-19)

    5 skills

    A passage studied in detail: what it says, and what is drawn from it.

2HadithThe recorded sayings, and how scholars decide which are reliable.2 topics·33 questions

  • Ulum al-Hadith

    4 skills

    The sciences of hadith: how a report is traced back, graded, and judged sound or weak.

  • Selected Hadith

    4 skills

    Specific sayings studied closely, with their meaning and their application.

3Pillars of ImanTwo of the articles of belief, taken in depth.2 topics·30 questions

  • Belief in Revealed Scriptures

    7 skills

    The scriptures Islam recognises as revealed, and what is taught about each.

  • Ulul-Azm Prophets

    4 skills

    The prophets described as those of firm resolve, and why they are grouped together.

4Devotional ActsWorship beyond the daily obligation.2 topics·30 questions

  • Prayers on Special Occasions

    3 skills

    The prayers that fall outside the daily five, and when each is said.

  • Hajj and Umrah

    5 skills

    The pilgrimage: what is done, in what order, and what each part signifies.

5AkhlaqCharacter and conduct, which is the practical heart of the subject.3 topics·70 questions

  • Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil

    3 skills

    The obligation to act rather than only to disapprove.

  • Virtues in Islam

    5 skills

    The qualities a Muslim is expected to cultivate, with the texts behind each one.

  • Prohibitions in Islam

    4 skills

    What is forbidden, and the reasoning given for each prohibition.

6MuamalatDealings between people: family, money and rights.4 topics·52 questions

  • Divorce

    3 skills

    What the law provides for, and the process it sets out.

  • Types of Divorce

    4 skills

    The different forms it can take, and how they differ in effect.

  • Trade and Finance in Islam

    4 skills

    What makes a transaction lawful, including the rules on interest.

  • Human Rights

    4 skills

    The rights Islam sets out, and who is obliged to uphold them.

7Islamic Heritage and CivilisationThe generation after the Prophet, and why it is studied.1 topic·40 questions

  • The Rightly Guided Caliphs

    5 skills

    The four who led after the Prophet: what each did, and why the period is treated as a model.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 8 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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