February 2018

Let’s read surah with Zeynap

It was raining very heavily one day. With only a small
group of children, we decided to play inside, staying
warm and cosy. Zeynap and Maryam were playing
family. They were pretending to be mommy and sister,
taking care of baby dolls and using the kitchen set to
cook their meals.
While Zeynap was lying down beside the baby, she
found a sheet of stickers underneath the cabinet nearby.
She remembered that Teacher Isra always give them
stickers or stamp everytime they recite some short
surahs from the Quran. So she decided to pretend being
a teacher. “I’ll be the teacher, and you be the children.
Who can recite surah, i’ll give you stickers?”
Omar and Mohammad decided to play along. They were
shouting, “me!me!”,anticipating to recite surah and
receive some stickers from Zeynap. “Don’t shout
me!me! You have to put your hands up like this”, said
Zeynap while putting her hand up to demonstrate the
right way to respond to a teacher. The children take
turns reading surah while Zeynap was listening to them.
After they have recite surah, Zeynap put stickers on
their hands and praised them,“Good job”. Soon after, it
was Omar’s turn. He came closer to Zeynap and started
to recite surah al ikhlas.She can hear that he was
struggling to recite, she helped by correcting him and
encourage him to recite it again. After everyone had
their turn, Zeynap decided to recite surah and gave
herself some sticker to reward herself. Masha Allah it
was really amazing to observe this situation. Zeynap
was very confident being the teacher. She was able to
recognise the concept of giving stickers as a reward
after observing the teachers doing it. She treated the
others fairly, making sure that everyone got some
stickers.
In a hadith, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said:

“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself”
(Forty Hadith-Nawawi)

By:Teacher Nur