Sewing Saturdays - Finger Knitting!

Alhamdulillaah taking the advise our dear sister Umm Tafari we attempted finger knitting. Jazzakillaah Khayr sis Umm Tafari for the concern and timely suggestion it was a such a beautiful experience and we loved it masha Allaah!

I helped Maimoonah first to do it and eventually she caught it even though she still needed help. But she did well, in fact her one was very much nicer and neater than mine : )

We did not have any proper yarn as usual, just had some thread we use to hang things up and we used it for the moment!

So first we watched this video and Maimoonah started finger knitting!

 

This is how her work looked when completed!

 

And she wanted it for her bunny!

Then I attempted finger knitting and it ended up like this.

Watched this You tube and made the flower. Stitching was an issue I guess because the yarn was very soft! But managed to do something: )

So that was how it all went. Time to get more knitting stuff now and explore Insha Allaah!

The Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab Mosque in Doha!

Innal hamdalillaah, I was so happy to read this and was also very pleased with the speech of our Ameer May Allaah preserve him and so glad to know that the great great grand son of our noble shaikh, the reviver Shaikhul Islaam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab raheehamahullaah was also present here, subhanallaah! thought I would share. I love this country and I sincerely hope and pray that Allaah makes this a land of Tawheed and bless the Ameer for his efforts. Aameen! When we happen to go here Insha Allaah will update you!

DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani inaugurated the long awaited Qatar’s biggest mosque yesterday. The mosque which was popularly known as the state mosque has been named as “Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab” Mosque, after the great reformist, pioneer and Muslim theologian of the 18th century.

The ceremony was also attended by the Heir Apparent  H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir’s Special Advisor H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, Speaker of the Advisory (Shura) Council H E Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi, a number of Their Excellencies Sheikhs, ministers and dignitaries.

Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahhab (1703–1792) was born in Najd, Saudi Arabia. He advocated purging Islam of what he considered to be impurities and innovations. His great movement, popularly known as “Wahhabism” is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia.

Wahhabism adheres strictly to the Islamic doctrine of Tawheed, the Uniqueness and Unity of Allah, shared by all Islamic sects. He was influenced by the writings of Ibn Taymiyya and questioned the classical interpretations of Islam, and preached the Muslims to rely on the Quran and the Hadith the true spirit of Islam.

The Emir said that this mosque in the land of Qatar will serve as a platform for reform and worship of God Almighty in the true spirit  of Islam away from fads and fancies.

“We named the mosque after the great reformer Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab in honour of the Muslim scholars, who still carry his thought and call for revival to serve Islam and Muslims,” the Emir said.

“His walk all through life in the path of light spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula, guides people to the right path according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah, removes confusion from the minds and deviations that confounded souls,” said the Emir.

“I am confident that this mosques which stems from the land of Qatar, as an eternal part of it, will serve as a platform for reform and sincere call to the Almighty Allah away from fads and fancies to serve the people on earth while coping with the spirit of the era and saving them in the hereafter in order to please Allah and his Messenger,” the Emir said.

The Emir reaffirmed commitment to spare no efforts to carry the message and spread the teachings of Islam in the whole world, noting that the Muslim nation is now in need of renewal and inspiration of the experience of Wahhabi’s da’wah (call) while keeping pace with the era and its developments.

The Emir said no occasion is as lofty as it and no event lives up to it, praying the Almighty Allah to provide us with His grace after “we raised the bases of one of Allah’s houses and completed its construction. Is there a greater and higher act of worship than the remembrance under the roof a new house of Allah’s houses?,” the Emir inquired.

“We named the mosque, which we have the honour to inaugurate today, after the renowned figure, great reformist and pioneer Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab,” the Emir said asking the Almighty Allah that He would be graced by the saying of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH): “God sends to this nation at the head of every one hundred years who he renews its religion”.

The Emir also said that our grandparent, the founder Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani (may Allah have mercy upon him) who was both knowledgeable in religion and a governor, was one of those who adopted the message of Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab and spread it in our country and in the Muslim world as he worked hard to spread the Wahhabi thought books among other books and printed them in India in order to let people know more about Allah’s religion and the message of his Messenger.

The Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs H E Dr Ghaith Mubarak Ali Omran Al Kuwari delivered stressed on the great role undertaken by the mosques as an institution  throughout  the history of Muslims in preserving the Islamic identity and the spiritual and moral values, realising the spiritual security of the Muslim nation, reassurance and spread of the good among the faithful. After the inaugural ceremony, all the dignitaries, including the Emir, the Heir Apparent, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and Their Excellencies offered Friday prayer which was led by Dr Mohammed bin Hassan Al Khatib, the preacher and Islamic scholar at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.

He also delivered the Friday sermon in which he confirmed the greatness of this religion that Allah saved from changing and alteration.

“Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul  Al Wahhab taught people to discard all kinds of Bida’ah and Ghulu and called people to come back and follow the first Islam which was preached by the Prophet of Islam, Mohammad (PBUH),” said Abdul Latif Mohammad Al Sheikh, the great great grandson of Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahhab, who was here to attend the ceremony on a special invitation from the government.

By MOHAMMAD SHOEB

The Peninsula

Location of the Imaam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab Mosque

Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 10

Islaamic Studies 

• Seerah - We read and recorded the following events.

Birth of the Prophet

Living with Haleemah

Returning to Aaminah

Death of Aaminah, Death of Abdul Muttalib

In the Care of Abu Taalib.

•  Fiqh - We learnt about Wudhu. We used the Learning Roots sequence cards and the TJ Wudhu Dua poster and some wudhu cards we had last year. Explained to her the importance of Wudhu, How to perform it and what will break it.

This is the note we made about Ihsaan  last week.

English Language

• Jolly Phonics - She did these letters and sounds. As I expected Alhamdulillaah Maimoonah is improving her spellings by doing Jolly phonics. She is able to recall the letter sounds and spell or write a word now Alhamdulillaah!

• Grammar - Homonyms

• Comprehension - This time she wrote the answers for the questions in addition to circling the correct answers.

• Writing - A dear friend of mine who is a teacher for almost 16 years now suggested that I give Maimoonah a word bank and ask her to write. Masha Allaah this really helped and this is what she wrote! Any way first I asked her what would you like to write about Yourself and she told me. So I wrote some words I thought she would find it difficult to spell. and she came out with this.

  

Social Studies - African and Antarctic Continents and Countries - http://ummmaimoonahrecords.blogspot.com/2011/12/continents-and-nations.html

 Maths

• MEP - We did following pages.

Arabic

• Madeenah Arabic - We did The Sun Letters and the Moon Letters. She understood well Alhamdulillaah but we would continue to practice next week as well Insha Allaah!

 

• Gateway to Arabic - She wrote these two letters.

Duaa for Dammaj!

As you all know that our brothers and sisters and families from the Ahlus Sunnah in Dammaj who have left everything and gone there to seek ilm are attacked by the Raafidahs for many months and the brothers there are defending themselves by the mercy of Allaah. And many brothers from all over the world who have gone to earn the pleasure of Allaah alone are martyred every day. May Allaah grant them Jannaah, Aameen! Please Make dua for them ya Akhawaat! 




" following the footsteps of the scholars , we  ask Allaah to aid Ahlu Sunnah in Dammaj against the harms that the Raafidha may/have inflict(ed) on them. May Allaah protect them and strengthen their resolve against the oppressive Raafidha, May Allaah have mercy on those that have died and make them Martyrs Aameen"




 and below is a message by our Brother (Abdulilaah may Allaah preserve him ) Insha Allaah on the matter.


Assalamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullaah

All praise is due to Allaah, i testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah and that Muhammaad sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam is His slave and Messenger,


During the Hajj break, we saw Sheikh Rabee' Bin Haadi al-Madhkhali in his full house in fact it on the 4th or 5th of Dhul Hijjah 1432. The sheikh spoke about the blessed time of Hajj and that everyone should be sincere before they embark on this blessed pilgrimage upon the Sunnah. He also mentioned that Hajj is a reminder of brotherhood and that the blessed time of the scholars before showed this brotherhood amongst themselves with kindness to eachother. The likes of Sheikh Bin Baz, Sheikh AlAlbaani and Sheikh Muhammad Saalih Bin 'Uthaimeen rahimahumalllah, even when they differed in matters of Fiqh they showed utmost respect for eachother. because they knew the value and status of Ahlu Sunnah. Then the sheikh supplicated for Ahlu Sunnah in Yemen, in particular Dammaj against the Raafidha. He mentioned some history about the Raafidha and how they plot and plan against Ahlu Sunnah whereever they are. Since coming back after Hajj to Madinah, Other
scholars have all supplicated for Ahlu Sunnah in Dammaj against the Raafidha in a very difficult time for them, the likes of Sheikh 'Ubayd al-Jaabiri, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Haadi and others. Likewise, in following the footsteps of the scholars, we  ask Allaah to aid Ahlu Sunnah in Dammaj against the harms that the Raafidha may/have inflict(ed) on them. May Allaah protect them and strengthen their resolve against the opporessive Raafidha, May Allaah have mercy on those that have died and make them Martyrs Ameen.

Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullaah said that Ahlu Sunnah are most knowledgeable about the truth and most mercy to creation.

Abdulilah Lahmami
(West London Dawah)

Kindergarten Curriculum Lesson Plan - 2011/2012 - Week 11

Islaamic Studies

·         Seerah  - Family of the Prophet  - Make a Tree and paste the names of the family members!

Names of Allaah Messenger - http://alitisaambissunnah.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/names-of-allaahs-messenger-sallallaahu-alaihi-wa-sallam/

Mother, Father, Grand Father, Uncles

Ummahaathul Mu’mineen - http://books.google.com.qa/books?id=8L85XkRHGyAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Children of the Prophet - http://alitisaambissunnah.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-children-of-allaahs-messenger-sallallaahu-alaihi-wa-sallam/

·         Fiqh – Salaah

English Language

·         Jolly Phonics  - sh, th

·         Grammar  - Syllabication/ Compound Words

·         Comprehension

·         Review Vocabulary

·         Writing

Social Studies

·         Continents -  Asia and Asian Countries

http://ummihomeschoolsme.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/quran-curriculum-surah-naas-project/

http://ummihomeschoolsme.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/k-2-maps-rev-1.pdf

http://ummihomeschoolsme.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/abc-bookofcontinents.pdf

http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/downloader.php?file=userfiles/0/37447476994.pdf&id=3390

http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/downloader.php?file=userfiles/0/09114810614.pdf&id=3391

·         Asian Countries –

 http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/Nations-coloring-pages/

http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimalsLINES.pdf

http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimals.pdf

(All the links provided above can be used for the whole of the continents and nations study Insha Allah and these links will be repeated in the next few weeks till we finish the Continents and Nations study Insha Allaah)

Maths

·         MEP

Arabic

·         Arabic First Book of Countries

·         Madeenah Arabic

·         Conversation

·         Gate way to Arabic

·         Iqra learning to read

Continents and Nations!

This week we started Geography and began studying about Continents and Nations. We already did Continents last year and Maimoonah was familiar with all the continents and could name all of them. Since we will be covering all the Continentsa and the Nations I thought I will post this seperatly Insha Allaah and then every week post the revelvant continent study with our weekly summary. Since there are many pictures I made a slideshow with captions. You can see the pics at the end Insha Allaah!

So what are we using for the study?

• Atlas
• A Binder ( A Box File)
• My Book of Continents 
• Zaynab and Zakariyah the New Neighbour
• Book of Countries (Arabic)
• Continent Puzzle
• Flags of Countries
• A Wooden Continents and Flags Activity Kit

Insha Allaah I hope to continue this study next year as well in detail, so I decided we will have a binder instead of a book so that we can keep on adding what we do and start from where we have stopped.

First we read Zaynab and Zakariyah the New Neighbour. Maimoonah loves this book and we read it very often. Its a cute book and explains the Aayah "O Mankind we have created you from a male and female and made you into nations and tribes, so that you may know one another". We spoke about this and read the explanation on the book.

As I told in my previous post Maimoonah is crazy with stencils, so I asked her to decorate the above Aayah on a page with her stencils. She stayed up the night and finished it even though I told her to go to sleep, it was way past her bedtime but masha Allaah she wanted to do it and did well.

Then She put together the Continent Puzzle.

Sometime back we had bought her a continent and flags wooden activity kit from a local store here which was pretty cheap and it became handy now. You get a map of the world with countries marked and you get some flags. You got to pin the flags correctly on the map. The wooden piece can be folded to see the back side, as at the back it has the picture of the flag and the name of the country. So this way children can do this on their own and Maimoonah learnt many countries and their flags fast as I have just kept that on the floor near her study area. 

Then this week we had to study about Africa and Antarctica. She completed the "My Book of Continents" Africa and Antarctica pages.

We printed out all the African Flags of the African countries from here and filed next to the African Continent page. We coloured few of the Flags and read some facts about the countries and I asked her to find those countries on the map and she liked this a lot. She was racing to find them. We can continue this next year as well since there are so many countries to cover; ) We also talked about Muslim countries in Africa.

Then we read about Antarctica and what happens there and who lives there. She completed the Antarctica page.

We revised the book of people we made last year. And read the Book of Countries (Arabic) and learnt the Arabic names for some of the African countries and land marks.

Here are the pics.

Sewing Saturdays - Chain Stitch

We managed to get some embroidery threads and cotton clothe the other day at the hypermarket.

So today we attempted to sew "Chain Stitch". This was my favourite stitch when I was in school may be when I was about 8 - 10 years old. And after such a long time I taught Maimoonah how to sew the Chain Stitch. We looked at some you tube also on this. She tried but gave it up easily because I think she is not ready for this stitch as it requires some motor skills and I feel its still not developed for her, Allaah A'lam. Nevertheless she tried and stitched few stitches. May be we will try again after few months Insha Allaah!

Then we thought we would use the supplies we got this time and do something. Maimoonah is mad over stencils these days. She can spend hours and hours drawing using stencils and colouring and pasting and using all kind of imagination. It is a really good thing for her age as she is coming up with lot of creativity using stencils. Since we do not have transfer paper or carbon paper we used her stencils and drew an apple and a pear on a piece of clothe. She stitched part of the running stitch on the hems and I stitched the hem stitch right around.

The hem stitch

Before stitching!

Then we stitched the apple and the pear all around using chain stitch. Maimoonah did a few stitches with my help and the rest Umm Maimoonah completed : ) Here is a small handkerchief for Maimoonah and she loves it saying "Masha Allaah Ummi, so nicely you have stitched for me, Jazzakillaah Ummi ; )" It is not very neat I guess you can make it even nicer and neater but for now I guess its good enough : ) Insha Allaah!