Quran Appreciation

Recite from aya 32 -42 of Sura Yasin Lesson 6 LO: To understand verses 41-42 Starter: Recite from aya 32 -42 of Sura Yasin Start with one group/student to recite aya 32 and move on until 42. (so 10 children or groups of children so all or most will get a chance to recite/listen)

Verse 41. “And a sign for them is that We bore their offspring in the loaded ship.” 42. “And We have created for them the like of it whereon they ride.”

What do you understand from these verses? Think-talk-discuss

We have seen that the previous verses were about the signs of Allah in the creation of the sun, moon, night and day, and the earth. Aya 41 talks about the seas and the movement of ships over them for taking passengers and commerce.

The movement of ships is an important means of transformation for human beings, and their benefit is thousands times more than other vehicles. This is the result of the particular specialties of water and the specific gravity of the materials that an ordinary ship has usually been made with. All of these are the might and forces that Allah has made subservient to man and each of them, and also their entire existence, is a sign among the Divine signs. Read notes for extra information re the arabic terms ‘mashun’

Paired talk

Perhaps home learning – children could look at this in more indepth.

. These are the vehicles which run on land, or in the air and carry both men and their goods. Some commentators have simply rendered this holy verse into camel which has been called the ‘ship of desert’. Some others have rendered it into all beasts, and some others into airplanes and aircrafts which have been invented in our time; and applying the Qur’anic phrase /khalaqna/ (We created) about them is for this view that their materials and means have been created formerly. But the verse has a vast scope of meaning which envelops all these concepts and other than them, too.

What would life be like if we were not blessed with means of transport…