The gift that came from above
Isra and Miraj. Why this one command was received rather than sent
Islamic studies at home
Twenty minutes a day. A child who knows how to pray.
Twelve weeks on the prayer, with every word you say written down for you.
Four sittings a week
Twenty minutes, in five parts
- Wonder
- One question, or one strange fact, offered before anything is explained. It exists only to make your child lean forward.
- Story
- You read the passage aloud. Once. Telling them beforehand that it is only once is what makes them listen properly.
- Tell Back
- Your child retells it in their own words. This is not a test of the lesson. It is the lesson.
- Anchor
- One small thing to do, tied to something that already happens every day in your home. Then done daily for a week.
- Look Back
- Five quick questions. Three from this week, one from last week, one from a month ago.
Inside the guide
Every word you say is already written down
Nothing ships without a scholar reading it first
Every verse is referenced by chapter and verse, every narration by collection and grading. Weak narrations are not used.
Only what the four Sunni schools hold in common is taught. Where they differ, it is said plainly so your family can follow its own practice.
What arrives
Four things land in your inbox
Term One. Standing
£19
The child's book
Twelve illustrated chapters, one a week.
The parent's guide
The lesson, word for word, with the pauses marked.
The twelve weeks wall chart
A3, for the wall. A square to fill in each day.
The cards to cut out
Twelve anchors, twelve door tags, one certificate.
The six things people ask
No. Where Arabic appears it is set out in full script so that your child sees it, with a transliteration beneath and an English translation beneath that. You are never asked to read the Arabic, and the guide says so in the front matter.
Everything taught is restricted to what the four Sunni schools hold in common. Where the schools differ, the difference is either set aside for a later book or stated plainly in the sources at the back, so that your family can follow its own practice. Nothing is taught as the only position when it is not.
Four short sittings a week, on whichever four days suit you. The first is the lesson itself and takes about twenty minutes. The other three are shorter, ten to fifteen minutes each. What matters is that the four fall on four separate days rather than being gathered into one long evening, because the spacing is the thing that makes it hold. The guide sets out a shape that most families settle into and then says plainly that the days are yours to move.
Begin where you left off. The term is built to be walked once, so there is no need to restart it, and squeezing two weeks into one removes the spacing that makes it work. Every week in the guide ends with what to do when that week did not go well, and it is there because most weeks do not go to plan.
No face is drawn on any human or animal, and no prophet is depicted in any form. What is drawn instead is architecture, sky, water, light, textiles, doorways and geometry, seen from the child's own eye height. We draw the place a thing happened, not the person it happened to.
Nothing ships without review by a qualified scholar. Every verse is referenced by chapter and verse and every narration by collection and grading. Weak narrations are not used, and where a well known one has been deliberately left out, the guide says so and explains why.