Companions of the Prophet presentation

We haven’t had Deen Club for a couple of weeks because the teachers and children are off school for half term. But to keep the children (and parents) on their toes, we organised a presentation for them to prepare. The children needed to research one sahabah or sahabiat and talk about him or her for ten minutes.

The venue was the beach so the children did not have Power points or videos to help them, which made their presenting skills a little more challenging. Consequently (though not that surprising) they did very well in presenting their special companion to the listeners.

Hafsa started off with Abu-Talha al-Ansari (RA), she presented two short stories to the group. Her first story was Abu-Talha (RA) and the beautiful bird; she acted out the part of the bird. She then read out the story of Abu-Talha (RA) and his guest.

Umar complete with a red bandana presented Abu Dujana Simak bin Kharasha (RA) using a large poster.  Abu- Dujana frequently distinguishing himself in battle by wearing a red band on his head, and would often strut in front of his enemies showing them he wasn’t scared. Abu Dujana (RA), during the Battle of Uhud, received several wounds in his back after placing himself around Prophet Muhammad (RA) so as to act as a protection from arrows.

Layth started his presentation with the adhan (call to prayer,) who is he going to talk about we all wondered?... Bilal (RA) of course! Layth went through different parts of Bilal’s life beginning with him being a slave to his conversion. From his persecution at the hands of the Quraish, and his life as a free Muslim. Layth worked his way through a number of posters which illustrated these important points in Bilal’s life.

Hmm I wonder who Khadija will present to the group... how about Khadija bint Khuwaylid (RA)? Our Khadija was the only person who presented a female companion which made listening to her presentation all the more interesting. She talked about her life before marrying Prophet Muhammed (SAW) and her conversion to Islam. Khadija handed out word searches and a maze for the children to complete when they get home- jazzakullah khair Khadija!

Huda finished off with Umar ibn al Khattab (RA), she had questions to ask after each part of the presentation just to make sure nobody was falling asleep. Huda chose Umar (RA) because she admired his fearlessness. She also talked about his late conversion to Islam and his role as caliph after the death of Abu-Bakr.

Everyone wriggled in their chairs when they heard about Huda asking questions, gulp!!!

We ended the presentation by going around and asking the audience who their favourite companion is, some people explained their reasons as well. We hope that these great companions become our children’s role models, their lives are studied and their way of living put into practice, in sha’Allah

The Quran and Surah Nazi'aat

The children have now moved onto Surah Nazi'aat, mashallah due to the Star award and Brother Suffian's teaching, the children are working hard to memorise the surahs and are careful to not make mistakes!

Khadija took the Star award this week.

Sister Nadia taught the children about our special holy book, the Quran. She discussed the features of the Quran and explained how it was revealed.

The children got up from their seats, and wrote on the wipe-board some of important facts about the Quran.

Prophet Muhammed (SAW) Surah Nabah is complete

Brother Suffian has now completed Surah Nabah with the children. He has encouraged all of the children to memorise the surah too.

Brother Ephrahim’s lesson was on Prophet Muhammed (SAW), he briefly went through a time-line of his life, talked about members of his and discussed important milestones in our dear prophets life. The children went onto colour Masjid al-Nabwi, which is the prophet’s mosque and answer questions.

Shahdah and Surah Nabah

Sorry for the lack of posts, we’ve had holidays and illnesses due to the bad weather here in Dukhan!

Hafsa having her Qidah lesson with Sister Yasmin. Brother Suffian is now finishing off Surah Nabah and giving tafsir to the children

Brother Kashif taught the stars about ‘shaddah,’ he gave them a good memory task of looking at the Arabic writing of the shadah (declaration on faith) covering the words and writing it down by remembering the letters- the children were hooked!!!

They understood the declaration of faith and answered questions from the Weekend Learning book.

 

Videos from the play

Abdulla and Zahara's news report

Ma'moon and Hafsa's news report

The 'real' Jesus play and the end of term

Allhumdulliah the ‘Deen Club families’ have completed the first term of teaching as well as learning. We had planned to do a little presentation at the end of each term- as is done at school, but with an Islamic twist for the children.

The children performed a play which had taken up many Islamic studies lesson in order to rehearse for. The play was called ‘The real story about Jesus.’ We thought at this time of the year the children are exposed to lots of Christmas festivities. Therefore it’s important for them to know what we as Muslims believe in with regard to Christmas and Prophet Isa (AS).

The children performed the play as a news report with Huda and Layth as the main newsreaders. Abdullah, Ma’moon and Umar played news reporters as well as Islamic experts. Khadija also played the role of two different experts in Islamic knowledge. Fatima played the role of a child in school explaining what Christmas is like, and Hafsa played a mum in a shopping centre, they both were part of the panel of experts too.

In order to make sure the ‘rainbows’ didn’t feel excluded they were part of the advertisement in the middle of the news report. The play was finished off with a nasheed 'Isa is a prophet of Islam.'

 Behind the scenes before the presentation, mashallah the children look chilled before their performance!