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Madani
07/10/02 at 16:43:16
Had some time, thought it would be nice to share this:

One of my students in grade 3 Qur'an class came to school one morning devastated. He was not reading, lost in thought - you could say he was shell shock.

He was going to get in trouble in my class for not reading, but I sensed something was wrong so I held back. I called him up and asked him, "Did you get in trouble? Are you going to get in trouble?" No answer. He was in shock.  I left him alone.

Later in the day, I was teaching his older brother Islamic studies and asked him what happend to Muhammad. He candidly said that Muhammad was banging on the bathroom door this morning while he was in it.  He was making so much noise that their dad came up and whiped both of them with a plastic hangar.

Armed with that information, I taught young Muhammad's class Islamic Studies in the last period of the day. The topic was respecting parents. I spoke:

"Listen class, we have to be patient with our parents. You know, like, when your brother is taking too long in the bathroom and then you start banging on the door like a madman!  Then, because of all the maniac noise, your dad comes up and whips the living daylights out of you with a plastic hangar ..."

At this moment, Muhammad practically jumped out of his seat in excitement. "WALLAHI THAT HAPPENED TO ME THIS MORNING! WALLAHI, EVERYONE THAT HAPPENED TO ME TODAY! I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BROTHER MUHAMMAD!"

:) kids, gotta lov'em

- Muhammad Alshareef
www.AlMaghrib.org
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suaad
07/10/02 at 23:19:35
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my little cousin (nearly 4 at the time), i told her to make dua for our recently deceased grandad. she started: " oh Allaah please get grandad out of the hole and give him back to us...[/color]  :)
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Sara
07/10/02 at 23:53:18
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when my lil sister was three, we were all once praying in the same room, and she makes duaa outloud: "Oh Allah please give me crayons, I will give you candy." hehehe
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momineqbal
07/11/02 at 00:08:41
[slm],

My youngest brother when he was like 3/4 used to tell my parents very innocently that by the time he grows big they (my parents) would have become small. His logic was simple, if small is getting to grow big then the big should become small at the same time!!!

and my brother who is older than the youngest used to say, whenever my Ammi would hide any sweets/cookies somewhere where he couldn't reach, that Allah Mian has told him that there are cookies on the third top shelf, so its better not to hide those from him for too long!  :D

Wassalam
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Kathy
07/11/02 at 10:27:03
[quote author=Madani link=board=bebzi;num=1026333796;start=0#0 date=07/10/02 at 16:43:16]
....He was making so much noise that their dad came up and whiped both of them with a plastic hangar.

....Then, because of all the maniac noise, your dad comes up and whips the living daylights out of you with a plastic hangar ..."

:) kids, gotta lov'em

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[wlm]

Because so many people read these topics I think it would be a good idea not to write about Muslim parents whipping the living daylights out of their children.

It may send the wrong message of acceptance or of a community that can find humor in it.
Re: cute things Muslim children say
mwishka
07/12/02 at 10:56:26
bro madani,

i hope that you can really really forgive me for sounding unappreciative of the humorous aspects of that child's learning, but your story seriously disturbed me.  i was reluctant to reply, but now that sis kathy has, i feel more comfortable adding my own thoughts and feelings.

plastic hangers have been used to beat children senseless and to kill them.  there have been arrests made for the use of this seemingly harmless weapon against children.  perhpas the father in your story was not engaging in any sort of excessive violence such as has happened to so many other beautiful, innocent, and unfortunate children, but i can't laugh at the humor in the story because of this, it scares me and makes me very very sad.  it made me cry rather than laugh.

mwishka (who's way too sensitive for her own good and already knows it....)
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falasteen
07/12/02 at 18:59:50
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i used to teach 5th grade in an islamic school last year. one friday, as my students and i were waiting for the khutba to begin, 2 little girls, probably no more than 4 or 5 years old, were running around the women's area. one of them stopped her friend saying, "you can't run in here! this is allah's house!" the other girl replied, "no it isn't," and would have preferred to continue running around.  the two argued back and forth for a while, the first child adamant in convincing her friend that the masjid was indeed allah's house. the second girl, however, simply ended the argument by asking, "then where is he?!" :)
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Aabidah
07/12/02 at 21:04:49
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mrajab, you're new right? How bout an intro  :)

[wlm]
Betul
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jannah
07/13/02 at 14:35:58
Ok as the above bro mentioned when you're teaching Islamic school you hear alot of rather *interesting* things.. one time I was also telling the kids not to run around in the masjid and one of them says very seriously... "yeah you should never run around in a masjid when it's dark" and i was like wow ma'shallah they're really good.. then he adds "yeah my mom told me you should never run in a masjid because you could trip over a jinn"!!!!!
07/13/02 at 14:37:06
jannah
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UmmAbdulRahman
07/14/02 at 15:05:25
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Sometimes, I find what Muslim children say somewhat disturbing.  Sometimes, it reflects the serious distortions and *serious* lack of concepts these kids have about this deen.  I am also a teacher in a full time Islamic school and I hear children's comments every day during the school year.  On one hand, it makes you laugh because of their innocence but on the other hand, it makes you cry because these kids are not given a complete and conceptual understanding of Islam which they are always capable of having-to a certain extent-at any age.  
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jannah
07/15/02 at 03:02:38
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I would just like to say that "their dad came up and whiped both of them with a plastic hangar" is not and should not be an Islamic way of disciplining your child.. If you ask me that borders on abuse if not is abuse. There are better ways to discipline your child, even physically than doing that do your child.
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bhaloo
07/15/02 at 08:45:08
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[quote author=UmmAbdulRahman link=board=bebzi;num=1026333796;start=0#9 date=07/14/02 at 15:05:25] Sometimes, I find what Muslim children say somewhat disturbing.  [/quote]


What sort of things?  If they are saying disturbing things, where is it coming from?  The parents, teachers, tv?
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UmmAbdulRahman
07/16/02 at 20:27:25
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[quote]What sort of things?  If they are saying disturbing things, where is it coming from?  The parents, teachers, tv? [/quote]

Some of the things I've heard Muslim children say would probably be deleted if I tried to post them here.  I'm talking about children 6, 7, & 8 years old.  Those instances, though, [i]were[/i] extreme cases. In those cases and many others, I know the exposure was from the TV-the kids even told me it was things they heard on a show.  There's an obvious partial solution to that problem and that would be to throw out the TV or at least, monitor what your children are watching.  But the disturbing things I'm talking about also include simple notions they have that are completely distorted.  Concept development is so important at their ages where they are really capable of grasping Islam in it's purest form-and this of course, comes from the home.  If it's not from the home, then it's a lack of intervention or education in the home. For example, some kids think that the pig is a horrible creature.  THey think the word "pig" itself is a shameful word.  Now, they strongly understand that we can not eat pig.  But it's only intellectually.  They don't understand conceptually WHY the pig has been forbidden for us to eat.  And they don't understand that the pig is included in Allah's creation of animals which we are supposed to respect, even if we are not allowed to eat it.  THey are given a black and white-halal and huram-education of Islam.  Now this is a small example.  What about their ideas on other things such as non-Muslims, prayer, fasting...?    
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wardah
07/17/02 at 06:12:43

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sorry but this isn't about what children say is disturbing, but i'm going a lil back to what children say is cute  :)
i'm very sorry if i seem rude, but this story is really cute, well at least i think it is, well here goes.
By the way this isn't from my experience but from my cousins,
ready? Once upon a time.... not really! okay okay sorry for wasting time...

My cousin sis was teaching lil childrej, and she had to listen to them read, and so there was this one smal boy, and she asked him what his name was, as she had done with the rest.
He replied (okay i can't remember the name but this is made up to go with the story)
'Muhammad Ismaeel Bin Shu'ayb'
My cousin was very impressed at hearing this, because he was a small boy, and mashallah had been taught this.
so she asked him, 'do you know what 'Bin', means in your name?'
and the boy answered, 'Yea!!'
she asked him, 'okay, what does it mean?'
and he replied, ' you know!!!'
and she asked again, ' please tell me, what does it mean?'
he again replied, 'you know!'
'she again asked, 'go on, what does it mean?'
and he replied, 'the place where you put your rubbish in.'
:D

[wlm]


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