Tarbiyah Girls Club - Class 8

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

At the 8th Tarbiyah Class we started off with the second principle "What is your Religion" in al Waajibaat. Alhamdulillaah we have covered "Who is your Lord" completely.

The girls were taught the meanings of each words used in describing what is your religion.

As for Taharaah we continued with the next hadeeth on starting to do things from the right side. We learnt about Aayshaa radhiyallaahu anha being the most knowledgeable of the people with regard to  the affairs of the Prophet and why that was the case. And the girls learnt when we should start certain thing with the left and why.

We continued with Adab Al Mufrad and learnt about Kind Words to Parents. We also briefly touched on "Khawaarij" as the Athar included this. And we spoke about how we must not refuse anything what our parents love and just kind words to parents can take you to Jannah as long as you do not commit major sins. 

This week we did a button art project with the girls. The Girls learnt how to sew buttons. and they were shown this and asked to do their own.

The girls enjoyed and some completed. Their work can be seen below!

Salaah Workshop!

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We organized a Salaah Workshop for girls. Alhamdulillaah 60 girls ages between 7 to 13 participated.

The girls were given notes of step by step instructions with illustration for wudoo, and salaah along with other details as to the obligations of salaah, what invalidates salaah etc etc. 

 

We also used some of the TJ's worksheets on Salaah times. 

We gave each child a salaah tracker to make them excited about praying on time, along with a notebook a pen and a highlighter

We had an activity sheet for them to identify the right and the wrong positions of the salaah displayed. 

We included a note for them as well as the parents with some important issues with regard to prayer taken from the book Sifatus Salaatun Nabee by shaykh Albani raheemahullaah. 

All of this was included in this pack.

It was not easy to make sure each child understood each position as the number was too much, and the time was limited. Alhamdulillaah. But we managed to demonstrate important issues with regard to Qiyam, Ruku and sujood. We explained to the kids the hadeeth of "The one who prayed Badly".

Some parents suggested an audio visual interactive session to grab the attention of the kids. While it is a good idea, I feel it is not possible to perfect the salaah of a child within a 2 hour workshop. Rather the parents must take it up from here and with the help of the notes provided they will have to continue this for years Inshaa Allaah until the child perfects her salaah. But we can still repeat these kind of workshops with small groups every now and then to make sure the kids are reminded and focused Inshaa Allaah! 

I would like to thank my good friend who works behind the scene always to get all the materials needed for all the kids, my dear sister Umm Aayah for helping with the layout of the documents and all the sisters who came along and helped me today and the kids for participating and the parents for their keen interest and encouragement. Jazzaakumullaah Khayr. 

May Allaah accept this from us make it heavy upon our scales on that Day. Aameen.

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Tarbiyah Girls Club - Class 7

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

At the Tarbiyah Class 7, we continued with Al Waajibaat, "Benefits of Knowing Allaah's Names and Attributes". The girls learnt the reward of memorizing the Names of Allaah and understanding and worshipping by them. They also learnt in day to day life how using the Names and Attributes of Allaah would increase one's eemaan, and the other benefits of Knowing His Most Beautiful Names.

 As for Tahaarah we did the next hadeeth on Umdatul Ahkaam, Book of Taharah, another description of the Wudoo of the Messenger of Allaah. After learning the hadeeth and the benefits of it, 

We demonstrated the Wudoo from the beginning to the end to the girls step by step and explained to them the small details of it and to emphasised to be mindful when taking wudoo and see that all limbs of Wudoo must be washed as prescribed by these hadeeth. 

Then we went on to learn about the next Great Woman of Islaam " Sauda bint Zamaah" radhiyallaahu anha. We learnt her life before getting married to the Messenger of Allaah salaahu alaihiwasallam. Then the honor of being one of the Ummahaathul Mu;mineen and her life with Muhammad Sallallaahu alaihiwasallam. They read about her wonderful motherly qualities and her sense of humor and many interesting incidents. 

The girls were given a summary sheet of her life and a Fact sheet to fill in as usual, and to write how they see her as their role model.

Finally we ended the class with a Quilling session. We did not use the quilling tools, but used a small stick, paper strips and glue. 

The girls enjoyed and these are their products.

All about Horses!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

So, like most of the kids Maimoonah is obsessed with Horses these days. Thanks to Sister Iman at Iman Homeschool, we managed to do a Lapbook about Horses. Since Maimoonah is learning to ride a horse and has been reading a lot about Horses, she was the one who explained to me all the details in this Lapbook.

A friend of mine gave these lovely books about Horses. We borrowed The Little Pony book from the QMuslimah Children Library.

She wrote the parts of the Horse.

The different breeds of Horses and what they eat.

Horse Sports!

Horse Colours!

What the Qur'aan and the Hadeeth say about Horses in Islaam! She showed this lapbook to her teacher at the horse riding lessons who is not a Muslim, and in fact when she asked her to read about what Islaam says about Horses, Maimoonah had asked her would you like to learn more about Islaam, if so please come home Ummi will teach you! Alhamdulillaah Dawah!

Taking care of the Horses and Grooming them! She in fact had a live grooming lesson at the class, after she did the Lapbook!

Horse Marking! The Horseshoe and the Kufr involved in some people's belief in it. 

Division practice!

This was a nice experience as she was able to do the lapbook while she was exposed to real horses!

Essential Lesson For Every Muslim - Pillars of Eemaan - Belief in the Books of Allaah

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Things are hectic over here, so blog posts are slow, Maashaa Allaah. Continuing with Essential Lessons for Every Muslim of Shaykh Bin Baaz Raheemahullaah,  We learnt about Eemaan in the Books of Allaah, which included the following: 

• Linguistic meaning of Kutub
• Shariah Meaning of it
• How to believe in the Books of Allaah
• Proofs for believing in all the Books of Allaah
• The previous Books of Allaah, their Names and those who received them
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Noble Qur'aan
• What is the Definition of Qur'aan
• Linguistic and Shariah Meaning of the Qur'aan
• How should we believe in the Qur'aan

Maimoonah used toothpicks to decorate the borders. She painted them first and after they dried she made borders.

If you have young children you can try this worksheet on My DownLoads Page, we used when Maimoonah was small to know the basics of this belief. 

Bricks 4 Kidz Session!

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Maimoonah attended a session with Bricks4Kidz today. The QMuslimah online Forum sisters had organized this event for the members' kids and it was a nice session. This is the description of Bricks 4 Kidz according to their website

Bricks 4 Kidz classes provide an atmosphere for children to, learn, build and play with LEGO® bricks. Programs are built around model plans, designed by engineers and architects, with themes such as space, construction, and amusement parks.

The objectives of this program includes the introduction to engineering and architectural principles, exploring math and science concepts, fostering an appreciation for how things work; and for the younger participants, improving fine-motor skills and utilizing multiple learning modalities to engage visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning styles.

We organized with them a special one time session for our kids Ages 2 - 4 for one hour which included 30 minutes of Lego building and 30 minutes of an art activity. Ages 5 and up had a session which included 45 minutes of Lego building , 45 minutes of Art Activity and 30 minutes of Games.

Small kids built a Heart using Lego Bricks and did a painting the heart activity for arts and crafts.

Maimoonah was with the 5 and up group. They had to look at the model on the paper and  follow instructions and build the Heart with lego bricks independently.

Then were asked to identify letter I with different bricks and colours.

They were also asked to make their names with small lego bricks,

As for arts and craft they made paper kite, decorated them and were allowed to go outside and fly the kites they made.

 Finally they had few games with Bricks. A memory game where they had to identify which brick was missing and the size and colour of the brick that was missing.

They also had a brick balancing race. Once balancing the brick on the head then on the hands.

Alhamdulillaah it was a nice experience for Maimoonah and the environment was nice as well. The staff were very kind and enthusiastic. And they were very obliging and flexible with our requirements and charges. We thanks Ms. Hayley Walker and her staff for a wonderful session with our kids.

If you are in Qatar and would like to visit them this is their contact details.

Bricks 4 Kidz

We Learn, We Build, We Play with Lego Bricks

M: + 974 3327 1199
T: + 974 4482 0376
F: + 974 4479 2960

Qatar Doha -Al Dafna, Area Onaiza, Zone 65 Al Rafiei

St 912 Bldg. No. 26, (beside Onaiza Park) P.O. Box 8756

Tarbiyah Girls Club - Class 6

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Alhamdulillaah we have been able to cover a lot of topics at the Tarbiyah Girls Club within the last few classes.

At Class 6 we continued with Al Waajibaat - The Obligatory Matters, learning about How to Know Your Lord through the Most Beautiful Names and Attributes of Allaah".

So we taught the girls how people have deviated in this part of the belief and the important principle of the Ahlus Sunnah on the Names and Attributes of Allaah.

They were also asked to look at the Qur'aan and write some Names of Allaah with its meanings.

As for tahaarah we continued with Hadeeth 7 on Umdatul Ahkaam, Book of Tahaarah. The Hadeeth was about the description of the Wudoo of the Messenger of Allaah sallaahu alaihiwasallam according to Uthmaan bin Affaan radhiyallaahu anhu. We learnt the many benefits of this hadeeth especially the way of the sahaabah in teaching the sunnah.

The discussion of Adab Al Mufrad was indeed interesting as always, since this time we learnt the Athaar (narration of the salaf) on being kind and dutiful to parents even if the parents treat you badly. I presume the girls were taken aback with this command, but it was good to make them understand that their duty to their parents by Allaah remains the same even if they are ill treated. Alhamdulillaah.

We hope to have a scrapbook made at the end of the Level One course which would include all what we have done throughout the course. We wanted all the kids to contribute to this scrapbook and they were interested to know what they should do. So at this class we had a small scrapbooking session for them to know what we expect from them to do at home for each week and bring them to us. So the girls did some artwork to indicate what we did at our first lesson.