Reading Log Reflection

Love Your Parents
-Aamna A
Grade 3

I learned that loving your parents, praying for them and never doing such acts that may displease them are basic moral teachings of the Qur'an. We should all apply/practise these acts in our life so that Allah may be pleased with us and grant His blessings in this world and the world to come. The Qur'an enjoins us to be thankful to our parents and obey them at ALL times. I also learned that after a persons duty of a person is towards his parents. The Qur'an urges us to pray for our parents. "Lord bestow your mercy on them, as they raised me up when I was little."

The Story of the Two Gardens
-Farheen
Grade 3

This story was really good. It teaches us that you should not have too much pride because Allah is the one who has gifted you with things you are proud of. If it weren't for Allah, then you wouldn't have anything.
But a lot of people (including me) have a lot of pride now days, an you can always find a person who will be bragging about their possessions instead of thanking Allah. I was also that way, until I started going to Al-Huda, but another thing that helped me resolve my ways, was a video I saw at school on Wednesday. it was about Malawi, Africa and how poor the country is. Kids don't have proper places to live and even going to school was a struggle because they don't have any pencils or papers available.
It made me really sad an frustrated to see those poor children struggling for things we all take for granted. Why is it fair that some people get to live the good life when for some people, surviving through a whole day is an accomplishment? but i also understood that those people thank Allah for everything they get and have no pride, where as people in richer countries take everything for granted and have pride big enough to fill the whole world.

Islamic Society
-Manal
Grade 3

An Islamic society is built on Islamic ideals and these ideals are based on the Qur'an. So to be living in a true Islamic society you would need to follow the principles of the Qur'an. And did you know the Qur'an is the greatest source of teachings for human beings? It offers us so many things such as guidance, righteousness. It's like a whole big test study book for the day of judgement. Anyways, back to Islamic ideals, since they are based on Qur'an and we follow them, we essentially have to have complete faith in everything the Qur'an says like faith in Allah, His messengers, His revelations, His angels, in life hereafter and in the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammed (SAW), And this is just the begining of Islamic ideals!

Belief in Messengers of Allah
Anyone who has faith in Allah must also believe in all the messengers sent by Him. Allah had sent down these messengers because Allah said to them to guide all of mankind to the right path. And there is also a verse in the Qur'an explaining how some people believe in some messengers and disbelieve in the others, it says : "those who deny Allah and His messengers, and those who draw a line between Allah and His messengers saying: we believe in some but deny others, thus seeking a middle way- These indeed are the unbelievers. And we have prepared for the unbelievers a humiliating torment" (4:150-151). Allah's messengers are like normal human beings, they eat, drink, sleep, and marry. But Allah gave them some qualities they are perfect at and we should try to attempt and develop some qualities of the Prophets such as: speaking the truth, having goo hygiene, and obeying what Allah has commmanded us to do. I forgot to mention that there is a verse in the Qur'an explaining more in depth why Allah sent down the messengers, it says : "We sent to you a messenger from among you to recite our revelations to you and to purify you of sins and to instruct you in the book and in wisdom and to teach you what you did not know" (2:151). So here are just some of the things, I hoped you enjoyed learning about the Messengers of Allah!