Minibook on Surah Al-Mulk

The boys have been working on these mini books for the last couple of weeks. Today we put them together.

Page 1: Copied out the hadith on the virtues of Surah Al-Mulk.

Pages 2,3,4: On these pages the boys found the Names of Allah which occur in this surah, copied them out and noted their meanings.

Page 5: On this page the boys used silver pen on black paper to note what this surah mentions about the seven heavens and the stars.

Pages 6 and 7: These pages are about the description of Hellfire and those who will enter it.

Pages 8 and 9: To cover the rest of the tafsir of the surah I wrote some comprehension style questions and the boys wrote out the answers. The questions and their answers covered these two pages.

The whole project was studied from the tafsir by Ibn Kathir.

Mini Book

We've made mini-books for the study of Surah Al-Adiyat. The cover is card, and one page of A4 is folded inside for the pages. Inside there is a translation of the meaning of the surah, a list of ways in which people are ungrateful to Allah, (always complaining, saying life is unfair, why does it always happen to me, etc) and a list of some of the favours Allah grants (food, water, health, security etc). There is also a piece of creative writing for which I asked the boys to imagine themselves looking at the horses described at the beginning of the surah, and describe what is happening, what they can see and hear and so on.

Apart from this we mostly did maths today. As we are nearing the end of the school year, we have nearly completed the maths course. The last few weeks seem to be dragging by and all of us are looking forward to a break from the daily maths lessons. So I decided to suggest doubling up the maths for a week or so in order to get through it faster, and then get a longer summer break. This means we will do less other work in the mean time, but we can afford to relax on that, having got so much done, alhamdulillah. The boys agreed to this plan, so, it will be double maths for a bit now, if we can manage it, inshAllah.