Word to word Pictorials of Surahs – Surah Maun & Quraysh

Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

The blessed days of Dhul Hijjah are upon us, May Allah(SWT) give us the tawfeeq to do as many good deeds as possible and utilize these days to earn maximum rewards.

Alhamdulillah, I am glad the Tafseer pictorials have been such a big help to many of you, May Allah reward the Sister who designed these. Proceeding forth with the next two Surahs, here are the files for Al Maaun & Al Quraish. As I have mentioned earlier these pictorials are not designed by me and in S.Maun, the sister has used facial features in the pictures. I am not for using facial features and if any of you follow the same principle, I would suggest that you white-off the facial features with a correction pen after printing them. I do not have access to correct these files in any way, so kindly bear with me.

Hope these are beneficial for you. Jazakumullahu Khairan for your kind comments and Aameen to your duas.

Take Care

Wassalaams

Prophets in Islam, a new addition!

Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,

For the new batch this time round, we were planning to repeat the Prophets in Islam Series, and Alhamdulillah new ideas have been popping up – as me and my colleagues have been brainstorming the sessions. Alhamdulillah, a recent great addition that we are planning is to add in a dua book having the duas of all the Prophets and guess what, my very dear Sisters at the Graphics Forum(Easel and Ink) were more than ready to pitch in. You can get all the duas from this link . Do not forget to thank them !

Alhamdulillah, we are also coming up with some real cool ideas to teach the Prophets in Islam lessons with a touch of reality – so the kids are getting activities that will help them relate the situations to their life. So keep watching this space. Insha Allah more to come !

Till next time, take care.

Word to word Pictorials of Surahs – Surah Kafiroon & Kawthar

Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

Hope you are all buzzing back, getting things in schedule. I am trying my best here, what with Masha Allah a new addition to the family coming in another four months Subhanallah, I am very close to panic mode – getting things in schedule. Do remember me in your duas.

Well to get on with it – continuing with our word to word pictorials with Al Kafirun and Al Kauthar. Hope these are beneficial for you, also remember the Sister from Iman Quran Center in your duas, she is the brain behind this project.

Jazakumullahu Khairan for your kind comments.

Take Care

Wassalaams

Eid Mubarak to all my dear sisters…

A cute Ramadan reminder for our young ones..

Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh

I came across this cute video on a blog for young crafty Muslimahs aptly titled – ‘craftylilmuslimahs.blogspot.com‘ and I found it a delight for the kids. This is a nasheed about Ramadan (without MUSIC) so enjoy.

Alhamdulillah, MashaAllah Tabarakallah another video for the slightly older ones.

Take Care , Wassalaams

Word to word Pictorials of Surahs – Surah Fatihah

Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

As promised previously, Alhamdulillah I have received the S.Fatihah Pictorial updated from the Sister. I thought I’ll put it up immediately so that those of you who are benefiting from this can do so, esp in this blessed month.

Al Fatihah

Jazakumullahu Khairan for your kind comments and Aameen to your duas. Do not forget the sister behind this great work and me in your special duas during this blessed month.

Take Care

Wassalaams

Ramadan Mubarak

Assalamualikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,

Wishing you all a blessed and fruitful Ramadan, do remember all of us and the whole Muslim Ummah in your duas. May Allah give us the tawfeeq to make the best use of this month in deeds and duas. A’ameen

 

30 days of Ramadan – 30 Activities..

Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,

Hope this post finds you all in the best of health, eeman and ramadan spirits. I am sure, all of us are looking forward to Ramadan – with anticipation, joy and anxiety. The heart beats are racing, it’s just as though we are very close to that finish line, yet we all know it is just the beginning, Insha Allah of a fruitful and blessed time.

To help you out a bit, with the kids and their activities during Ramadan, I would like to share with you a small time table and activity book that I put together for the Children in our Institute. We were having a Quran Review Program that we have started a couple of weeks before Ramadan, so that we can complete the Quran Review prior to the last ten days of Ramadan. While the moms are busy studying we have an activity room for the younger kids wherein we are following this timetable and activity book. It is planned for 30 days, so possibly you can incorporate the same for 30 days of Ramadan. All the activities are taken from the web, except a few, it is just a compilation to help you all out. Hope it is of benefit to you all, remember me in your duas, and do leave a comment if you like it.

Ramadan activity planner for kids(This is the day to day layout)

CRAFT ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AGE 5 AND ABOVE (Better quality – thanks to the Ukhti from Talibiddeen Jr.)

*Update*

Just to update you about the hadith stories that I have mentioned in my day to day layout, they are as below. It was actually a set of books, I had purchased long back and my kids enjoy them immensely, its by Dar al Fadila Publishers (see the image below). I don’t know if you can find them online, but most of the stories are well known, so you can always adapt according to your child. The stories are listed below,

The Boy and the magician of S.Burooj
Friends of the cave – where the 3 men are closed down by a boulder and they make dua using their good deeds
The three men tested by Allah, the Leper, the bald and the blind
The honest man and the river
The cloud and the Farmer
The monkey and the milk seller
The guilty and the good man – the two brothers, who took different ways but died contrary to what they were doing because of their final deed.
The Jar of Gold
The old Woman and the cat
The Dog and the Well

Some of them are authentic ahadeeth, and some I think are daeef, substitute the lesser known or da’eef one’s with the well known ahadith.

Take care,

Wassalaams

Word to word Pictorials of Surahs – Surah Masad & Surah Nasr

Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

As promised in my previous post, Insha Allah, we will continue our word to word pictorials with Al Masad & An Nasr , The An Nasr-3rdAyah is in a separate file. Hope these are beneficial for you.

Jazakumullahu Khairan for your kind comments and Aameen to your duas. Please do remember the designer of these pictorials in your duas and attribute the work to Iman Quran Centre.

Take Care

Wassalaams

Women Inspired by the Beloved – an inspiring series.

Assalamualikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,

How are you all? Can you believe it, it’s just 20 odd days left for Ramadan, Subhanallah. I am sure many of you are busy getting your homes and lives ready for Ramadan, its the same here. Ya Rabb! Make us of those who utilize this month effectively to gain your magfirah, rahmah and safeguard ourselves and our families from the fire. A’ameen

Well, as for the topic of the post, its a beautiful series by the speaker – Hesham al Awadi, he has also done various other topics like the Four Great Imams, Children around the Prophet(SAW) etc. This series, ‘The Women inspired by the Beloved’ highlights various great women personalities through out history from the time of our Prophet(SAW) to a few years back. Each group of women are placed under different categories, each category a siffat the Muslimah of today must have. It was a great inspiration for me and my teenage students, especially since many of the girls today have non-muslims as their role models.

You can hear the lecture here, and I made some handouts to be given to the students they are not exactly a transcription of the lecture, since in some places I had to change a few details according to the age of my audience. Though, I do differ on a few points made by the speaker which I left out from my notes, otherwise more or less they are all there with some references that I was able to make on Wikipedia, Muslimheritage.com etc. You can find below the layout of the whole course spanning over 15 weeks, at the end of which Alhamdulillah, the girls were so inspired that they arranged a bazaar to generate funds for a Children’s Islamic Library. Please find below the handouts, theme page and a few inspiring snaps.

“course details (6)Burooj”     WIB 1 – Intro,  WIB 2 – energy,  WIB 3 – u turn ,  WIB 4 – connect,   WIB 5 connect pt 2

WIB 6 – Made Men,   WIB 7 – success ,  WIB 8 – Impact,  WIB 9 – excel, WIB 10 – himmah,  WIB theme page

Hope the above course is beneficial for you all.

Take Care