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13 Feb 2014

The Camel: Reflecting on creation



Lesson Title: The Camel; Reflecting on creation

Lesson Objectives:
- To learn the Arabic vocabulary for camel
- Appreciate the design of the camel for the desert
- Know that everything in creation is a sign of Allah
- Understand the importance of spending time to think about the world around us
- To experience ways to slow down and become more aware 

Quran Verse:
Tafukkaroona fi khalqi 3:191
Think about what Allah has Created.

Lesson Introduction:
In the beginning when the Qur’an was revealed, the Prophet (saw) lived among the Arabs in the desert of Makkah and Madinah. Without camels, travel in the desert would be extremely difficult. Camels were the main animals used everyday for riding on and to help carry heavy loads. Camels even gave nutritious milk to drink.

In the Qur’an, Allah tells us to think about the way the camel has been created, (88:17). Allah has especially designed every single part of the camel so that it can live and serve people in the hot desert.
The camel is a sign of Allah. Although we cannot see Allah, we can see signs of His creation all around us. 

Allah tells us in the Qur’an, tafakkaroona fi khalqi, to think about what Allah has Created.
Thinking about the creation, help us appreciate the wonderful world Allah has created and the many blessing He has given us. Thinking about the creation, teaches us about the Creator! It helps us to become close to Allah and makes us realise how incredibly amazing Allah is!

Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in a hadith has taught us that worshiping Allah is not just lots of praying and fasting but it is to always be thinking about Allah. He even tells us that to spend an hour thinking about Allah and His creation is better than 70 years of worship! It shows us how important it is to do what Allah has said and tafakkaroona fi khalqi, to think about what Allah has Created.

Activities:

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Camel Factsheet



Lesson Objectives:
- To learn the Arabic vocabulary for camel
- Appreciate the design of the camel for the desert

Quran Verse:
Tafukkaroona fi khalqi 3:191
Think about what Allah has Created.

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Breathe!

Learning Objective:
- To experience what it feels like to slow down and become aware, using all the senses.

Quran Verse:Tafakkaroona fi khalqi 3:191
Think about what Allah has created

Sit still and notice your breath
Have the children to put their finger horizontally under their nose to feel their breathing. 

Have them put their hands on their tummy and notice what happens when they breathe in and out? Feel this rhythm for a few moments in silence.
Ask them how they feel when they just pay attention to their breathing. They could also lie down with their hands on their tummy so they can feel its rise and fall more distinctly.

Invite them to take one in breath and one out breath and count it as ‘one’, then another in and out breath and count ‘two’ and go all the way up to 10.


We breathe all the time, but are usually not aware of it and so don’t really appreciate it. But breathing is so important! What would happen to us if we couldn’t breathe?

Allah controls every breath that comes into and out of your body!

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Mindful Eating: Raisin Experiment



Learning Objective:
- To experience what it feels like to slow down and become aware, using all the senses.

Quran Verse:Tafakkaroona fi khalqi 3:191
Think about what Allah has created


Activity: Mindful Eating
Give the children a raisin and have them approach it with curiosity, as if they have never seen one before. They engage all the senses observing how the raisin looks, how it feels in the fingers, how it smells and finally how it tastes.

Talk about how the raisin started as a grape and then was dried in the sun to become a raisin – a long process!


Thank Allah for each sense to help you fully savour your food!

Thank Allah for the farmers and Earth that helped grow the grapes and the sun that dried them into raisins.



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6 Feb 2014

Do Your Best For God!



Lesson Title: Do your best for God!

Lesson Objectives:
- to learn the Arabic vocabulary for Bee
- To learn about the bee and how honey is made
- to understand that Allah taught the bees how to live and make honey
- to appreciate the greatness of the bee and to take lessons from it
- to understand what our job is


Quran Verse:
jahidoo fi sabilihi 5:35
Work hard and do your best for Allah

Lesson Introduction:
The bees work busily to transform the nectar into honey. Each bee has a special job to do. They work together, help each other and share their food.
 
A small insect like the bee does such an amazing task! In Surah Nahl, the chapter of the bee, Allah tells us that He is the One who taught the bees where to build their hives, how to collect the nectar and how to make honey. 16:68-69

Bees work so hard! They even make more honey than they need so they can share with us!

The honeybees do their best and spend all their time doing the job that Allah has created them for, to make honey. The bees obey Allah.

Allah tells us in the Qur’an ‘jahidoo fi sabilih’, to work hard and do our best for Allah. 
Allah has given us so many blessings and skills. Like the bees, we must always work hard to obey Allah and do our job of becoming the best we can and make Allah happy.
Always Bee your best!

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