Surah Fatiha and Allah (SWA) can see us

For our second week the children made a start of reciting the Quran. They have all begun with Surah Fatiha with the teachers Br. Suffiyan, Br. Sykander, Sr. Yasmin and Sr. Nagum listening to the children’s recitation, as well as grouping the children in accordance to what stage they are in.

 

Br. Kashif worked with the children to teach them about Allah (SWA) seeing them everywhere. He talked about Allah (SWA) being the Al-Basir (the all seeing). The children watched a cartoon which explained this concept.

They did a  drawing and wrote a sentence to say where Allah (SWA) can see them. Br. Kashif then set them a challenge of thinking about a special place where Allah (SWA) can see them. After some thought Abdulla got it right and said, ‘In your heart, Allah (SWA) can even see what is in your heart!’ 

The children listened to the story of the ‘thirsty man and a dog,’ and how he enters jannah for feeding the thirsty dog by going into the well. Br. Kashif explained that no one could see his actions, even the dog couldn’t praise the man’s hard efforts. But Allah (SWA) sees everything and has granted this man jannah, subhanallah

We cannot see Allah (SWA)

For the Islamic classes, we started the children off with understanding that although we cannot see Allah (SWA) he is still there. In order to illustrate this, a blank piece of paper was shown and the children were asked what is the on the paper? They said ‘nothing!’ Using black paint (to get a better effect) the children watched the word ‘Allah’ appear on the paper.  The name ‘Allah’ was traced out in white crayon before. We discussed that even though we cannot see Allah he is always there, just as we couldn’t see the crayon mark.

 The children then painted their own paper and watched the name ‘Allah’ appear.

 One wonderful moment was when Layth and Umar used a lot of black paint, and Layth exclaimed, ‘Allah is so strong look at how his name is still showing through!’

We finished off by looking at the signs of Allah (SWA) through his creation in the universe. We talked about their having to be something that has made the huge universe and the tiny insects- Allah (SWA).

Week 1 Getting Started

Mashallah we have had two weeks of The Deen Club so far- and it’s going really well, allhumdullilah!

We started off the first week with the children watching ‘Travel with the Quran,’ on YouTube. The video is very moving and teaches the many ways children do Hifdhs and Tajweed around the world. It also addresses children with special needs and how they have worked at memorising the Quran.

The children were truly moved by watching this, and felt inspired to work on their Quran recitations. Sr. Yasmin made beautiful Hifdh log books for the children to bring to lessons each week.