Islam for Parents

The seven Arabic words we’ll be covering today occur in the Qur’an nearly 200 times combined! This is because each of these words (and their various forms) are repeated very often. The 7 verbs included in the below PDF document are:

• To Complete (occurs about 17 times in the Qur’an)
• To Not Recognise / To Deny (25)
• To Conceal / To Speak Secretly (18)
• To Produce / To Create (22)
• To Make / Cause to grow (16)
• To Befall / To Inflict (65)
• To Send Forward / To Proceed (27)

For each word, there are at least 7 examples of it being used in the Qur’an. This makes remembering the words easier inshaAllah. View or download the PDF using the below link. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Below are 7 free worksheets that contain colouring in pictures for your children. They contain pictures of common words used in hadith books. It’s a fun way to teach your children Arabic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

We should teach this dua to our children inshaAllah. What better way is there to end the day than by remembering Allah, Most High? If you think it’s required, download this dua from the below link and put it near your childs bed so they are reminded to say it. Please note there are many other duas narrated that should be said before sleeping. Please refer to the book, fortress of a Muslim for more information.
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The four Arabic words we’ll be covering today occur in the Qur’an nearly 80 times combined! This is because each of these words (and their various forms) are repeated very often. The 4 verbs included in the below PDF document are:

• To Bear a Load (occurs about 19 times in the Qur’an)
• To Describe / To Ascribe (14)
• To Deceive / Entice (24)
• To Embrace / To Comprehend (25)

For each word, there are at least 5 examples of it being used in the Qur’an. This makes remembering the words easier inshaAllah. View or download the PDF using the below link. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Maze #002 is available by clicking the below link. InshaAllah it will be a fun way of teaching your children about giving dawah. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Maze #001 is available by clicking the below link. InshaAllah it will be a fun way of teaching your children and getting them used to going to the Mosque. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The four Arabic words we’ll be covering today occur in the Qur’an nearly 150 times combined! This is because each of these words (and their various forms) are repeated very often. The 4 verbs included in the below PDF document are:

• To Possess / To Own (occurs about 49 times in the Qur’an)
• To Leave Behind (45)
• To Put / To Set (22)
• To Befall (20)

For each word, there are at least 5 examples of it being used in the Qur’an. This makes remembering the words easier inshaAllah. View or download the PDF using the below link. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A very old man at the age of eighty was resting and contemplating in a small corner of his room when suddenly the silence was broken with the entrance of his 45 year old son who had come to visit his father, as father and son got into deep conversation about his sons wife and children, how his coping with his job and his financial wellbeing…

A deep silence fell into the room, just about when the 45 year old son was about to leave, a crow landed on the window ledge right where they both were seated, as the old man stared at the crow he smiled and after a while he asked his son:

“What is this son?”

The son with a stunned reaction replied: “father it’s a crow”After gazing back at the crow the father asked the same question again: “What is this son”

The son shocked at his response for the second time [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is an Islamic educational video for kids to teach them about Islamic morals. It is a very beneficial video mashaAllah. The theme is “I am Muslim” and the video starts of with a sing along by kids.

This Islamic ruling deals with the often misunderstood concept in Islam about parents and forcing their daughters into a marriage.

Question:
I am muslim. I have to ask a question about my friend who is being forced to marry someone by her parents. She wanted to marry someone else. The guy who she is being forced to marry is more educated and wealthy than the one who she wanted to marry. Her parents has disapproved of her choice and they are forcing her to marry that guy. The guy who she likes is also muslim and very much devoted into islam. But just because the society would not talk about them they don’t like the guy who she loves. Any suggestions??

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

It is not permissible for a woman to be made to marry someone she does not want. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

“A previously-married woman should not be married without being consulted, and a virgin should not be married without asking her permission.” They said, “O Messenger of Allaah, how is her permission given?” He said, “By her silence.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 6455).

‘Aa’ishah reported that a girl came to her and said,

“My father married me to his brother’s son in order to raise his social standing, and I did not want this marriage [I was forced into it].” [Read the rest of this entry...]

We should remind ourselves and our children that all provision and blessings are from Allah and that we should be grateful to Him. This supplication should be said after we finish eating. This sheet also includes a reminder about how Allah is pleased with a person who praises Allah after eating and drinking. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a very simple dua to teach your children and will inshaAllah ensure there is blessings in the food that is eaten. Also remember to remind your children to eat with their right hands and eat from the food that is closer to them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Word Search #010 is available by clicking the link below. Insha Allah this word search will familiarise your children with some words related to Paradise (Jannah). [Read the rest of this entry...]

This eBook is an extract from the popular, “The Ideal Muslimah” book by By Dr. Muhammad ‘Ali Al-Hashimi.

One of the chapters was very relevant to Islamic parenting so we extracted only this chapter and made it available for download here. Chapter 5 is titled, “The Muslimah and Her Children” and contains the following:

• She understands his great responsibility towards her children
• She uses the best methods in bringing them up
• She equally treats her sons and daughters equally
• She demonstrates her love and affection for them
• She does not pray against her children
• She is alert to everything that may have an influence on them
• She instils good behavior and attitudes in them [Read the rest of this entry...]

So what can we do for our parents if they have passed away?

The answer is there in the Hadith reported by Abu Osaid Ibn Assaaidi who said that we were near the Prophet (peace be upon him) when a man of Banu Salma came to Him and asked: “Ya RasulAllah (peace be upon him), Is there any obedience to parents left that I can show to them after their demise?” He said: “Yes! (You can be obedient to them) by praying for them, to seek forgiveness for them by fulfilling their instructions after their death, by keeping affinity to those who are not connected with you but through them and to honour their friends” (Abu Dawud and Ibn Maja)

Every human being having reached old age needs more service and care. The society must not ignore the rights of senior members of the community. Allah Most High said:

“And lower to them shoulders with humility and meekness and say my Lord have mercy upon them (both) as they brought me up when I was little.”

When we were weak and in need our parents did hard labour in nourishing and rearing us. They have performed numerous sacrifices for our comfort and welfare. They were the main source of our safety from a number of difficulties. As Allah Most High has mentioned we must sincerely ponder over the many hardships, which were taken by our parents for our comfort.

The five Arabic words we’ll be covering today occur in the Qur’an over 200 times combined! This is because each of these words (and their various forms) are repeated very often. The 5 verbs included in the below PDF document are:

• To Bewitch (occurs about 49 times in the Qur’an)
• To Plot (43)
• To Transgress (54)
• To Understand (49)
• To Perceive (29)

For each word, there are at least 5 examples of it being used in the Qur’an. This makes remembering the words easier inshaAllah. View or download this small and helpful PDF using the below link. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Prophet (peace be upon him) commanded people to eat with their right hands and forbade them to eat with their left hands. He said, “The Shaytaan eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand.” Narrated by Muslim (2020). This implies that eating with the left hand is haraam, and this is the correct view, because the one who eats with his left hand is either a shaytaan (a devil), or he is imitating the Shaytaan.

Below is a little poem to teach your kids which is there left hand (so they don’t using it).

WHICH HAND DO I EAT WITH?

• Which hand is my right hand?
• It’s sometimes hard to know.
• But I have a special way
• That I will share and show.
• Put both hands out in front of you.
• Then it is easy to tell.
• Cause when you straighten out your thumbs
• The left hand makes an “L”

To make it more fun for your children to memorise Qur’an and to add an element of fun to it, you could download and print the below one page progress chart of Juz ‘Amma. As your child memorises a Chapter, you can get them to colour it in.

Download Progress Chart (right click and select ’save as’)

This small eBook is ideal for those beginning to learn the Arabic language. It covers the basics of the following topics:

• Subject and Predicate
• Masculine and Feminine Genders
• Numbers: Singular, Dual, and Plural
• Adjective and its Noun
• The Possessive Case or Genitive
• Interrogatives
• Pronouns
• The Prepositions
• Subject, Verb, and Object
• The Tense
• Past Tense
• Imperfect Tense
• Imperative and Negative Imperative
• Derived Forms of the verb [Read the rest of this entry...]