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Original language term required. Muslims are forbidden from swearing oaths on anything but Allah and his attributes because swearing on anything else would violate this belief. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this major tenet of Islam. Rejection of this belief comprises shirk, the only unforgivable sin.
ANSWER: tawḥīd
[10e] Whether Muslims can swear on this object has been contested among madhabs, with most scholars holding that it is permissible to swear upon this text as it contains the direct words of Allah.
ANSWER: the Qur’ān [or Koran]
[10h] One hadith records Muhammad saying that anyone who takes an oath by these pre-Islamic goddesses, as many of the Quraysh once did, should instead swear by Allah. Name any one of those three goddesses.
ANSWER: Al-Lāt [or Allat; or Alilat, or Allatu], OR Al-ʻUzzā, OR Manāt
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