PEARL OF ACTIONS - QURANPlease Don’t Throw Away, Respect the Quran on This Page ISSUE #1

September 2014

1. Be Respectful To yourself, to others and to property. !2. Be Responsible Be responsible for your words and actions. !3. Be Safe Keep our school environment and its students safe. !4. Be a Good Muslim Follow the Quran and Sunnah.

School Rules!

!• Allah (SWT) has sent 5 books to the Rusul

• Tawrat to Prophet Musa (A) • Injil to Prophet Isa (A) • Suhuf to Ibrahim (A) • Zabur to Dawud (A) • Quran to Mohammad (S) !

• Every book, except for the Quran, has been forgotten or changed. Allah (SWT) sent the Quran as a last book and Mohammad (S) as a last prophet. Allah (SWT) preserves the Quran in its original form throughout time.

!• What if a disaster destroys every book in

existence? Which book can be rewritten in its exact form? The answer is the Quran. So many people dedicate their lives to memorizing the Quran, and so many Muslims respect this Holy book. There is no older edition and newer edition, everyone knows the same Quran, with the same words and even the same harakahs.

!• The Quran is the word of Allah (SWT), and it

is a miracle. From the time of the Prophet, Allah (SWT) challenged people to make a single ayah like His, and all attempts to do so were laughable. Nobody was able to step up to the challenge, even though the Arabs were known for their knowledge in the literature.

!• The Quran defines our relationship with Allah

(SWT) through Ibaadah (worship).  Salah, Hajj, Zakat, Sawm, istighfar, duaa, and thikr are all mentioned in the Quran as ways that we can get closer to Allah (SWT).  When we want to become closer to Allah (SWT), we must do so in the way that he told us to in the Quran.  

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Setting goals to accomplish a task is a great way to be successful in life. Our goal should always be to seek and gain knowledge. Come up with the best ways to this. !Some examples are: doing your homework each week, learning new duas, listening to your teachers, taking the advise of your parents, reading Quran. !*** Please write 5 ways you can gain knowledge this school year. You can also use this space to list things you want to learn. !!1)________________________________ !!2)________________________________ !!3)________________________________ !!4)________________________________ !!5)________________________________

5 things we should all do with the Quran. !1)To believe that it is the book from Allah (SWT) and to believe that it has not been changed throughout the times. !2)To learn it. Rasullullah (S) says to us that the best people are those who learn the Quran and teach it to others. !3)To understand it. These are the words of Allah (SWT) to us. This makes them very important. !4)To apply it. After understanding the Quran, it is important that we practice the teachings that are in it. Aisha (R) said that Rasullullah (S) was a "walking Quran". !5)To spread its teachings. This includes teaching its tafseer (meaning), tajweed (proper reading), and hifiz (memorization). !Simply write down, in a few sentences, how you interact with the Quran on a daily basis. Do you read it everyday, memorize it, teach it to a younger sibling, listen to it, and practice what it says _____________________________________________________________ !_____________________________________________________________ !_____________________________________________________________ ! Activity - Ages 8 - 99

Sit down with at least 4 other people around your dinner table. You will all play the game “telephone”. You whisper the following two things in the ear of the person sitting next to you. That person says it to the person sitting next to them and so on until you get to the last person. The last person should be the oldest person in the group. Then answer the questions.

1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.” Was what the last person at the table recited anything like the original statements? ______________________ 2. Recite Surat-ul-Kawther.

Was what the last person at the table recited anything like the original statements? ____________________ Write an ayah from the Quran in English or Arabic that states the Quran will be protected or that there is no doubt in it. _________________________________________ !_________________________________________ !_________________________________________

The Quran teaches us many things:

•Allah (SWT), and that He is the one and only God. He created everything, and we learn about the characteristics of Allah. We know that He is Al-Qadir (the Able), and that everything belongs to Him.

•His angels. The angels are made of light, they always worship and obey Allah(swt), and some have very specific jobs. Two write about our deeds, one makes rainfall, and one will come to us at the time of our death.

•His previous books.

•The Prophets (A). These stories teach us important lessons, and remind us that we must believe in all of the Anbyaa. There are 25 prophets mentioned in the Quran, although they were many more sent by Allah (SWT).

•In the Day of Judgment, Qada, and Qadir.

*Start everything with Bismillah

Activity - Ages 4 - 7 !1. Flip this page over and lay it down horizontally. Get a ruler and draw a 1 mm long line in red at the far left edge. Switch to green and continue the line all the way to the far right edge. Label the red line “Duniya/This Life”, and label the green line “Akhira/Next Life”. Under “Duniya” write the words “worship”, “patience”, and “hard work”. Under “Akhira” write “Happiness” and “Never ends!” !!2. Draw a cool backpack and color it nicely. This is your bag for your journey through life. Next to it, write down your packing list. You can only write down invisible things that can help you through life in the best way. The more things you pack the lighter your bag will get so try to think of at least 10 things. Some examples: knowledge, patience, love… !

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