Resources for Lessons for your Children

While I was preparing my lessons to start teaching the beginning of this year I came across a website called The International Board of Educational Research and Resources. They had a wide range of lessons from adaab to fiqh. They also had Skills for Life lessons from ages 3 to 16 and syllabi from Primary School to High School.

If you are really eager to start teaching your children Islamic Studies from home and you don't know where to start then it would be ideal to print out their syllabi and start working from there.

Oh Women...Put Allah First

We are living at a time where it seems that we just cant find contentment. However Allah has said it very very clear in the Qur'an:

"Only in the Rememberance of Allah can the heart find peace"

[Surah Ar-Ra'd: 28]

I truly believe that the only way we will ever find contentment is when we make space for Allah in our hearts. Our hearts are so filled with the material things of this world and the duties to everyone else that we have no space left for Allah. We often make the mistake of putting our husbands and children first in our lives....dont get me wrong there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. What I mean, for example, is that we are so busy trying to get the supper on the table in time or so busy with helping the children do their homework that we dont make our salaah on time anymore. Our salaah has no quality anymore because we are always rushing to get done so that we may see to the family. We think we are doing good by putting our families above Allah hoping that by constantly being there for them our family will be perfect. But in fact we got it all wrong if you put Allah first then Allah will make sure to look after your family.

Now with all of these "other" things that is filling up our heart we have no space left for Allah. The only way that we will have space for Allah is if we place him first in our heart then everything else. Only then will everything fall into place.