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Assalamu Alaikum,

Welcome to your child's  Deen home page. Insha Allah, I will try my best to keep
you well informed about the activities that take place in Deen class.

Below you will find the lesson plans for 3rd - 8th grades. Please refer to them as
needed. Also, listed below are links to beneficial websites. I encourage you and
your children to take the time to read the articles, listen to lectures and just
browse the pages.
Lesson Plans
Fourth Grade:
We will be beginning Chapter 5 in "Knowing Allah's Books"

Fifth Grade:
We finished the chapter called "Paradise" and we have begun the chapter called "Hell" in the book
"Knowing the Last Day"

Sixth Grade:
We have started the chapter on "Usul al-Hadith" in the book "Islamic Studies: Book 1"

Seventh and Eighth Grade:
We are working on Chapter 2 in "Islamic Studies: Book 3" called "Charms & Omens."
Prophets and
Messengers of Allah
Two prophets that have been
mentioned in the Sunnah are:

1. Yusha bin Noon
2. Al-Khadir or Al-Khidr
"Verily, Salah (Prayers) is enjoined on the believers- to be performed-at fixed times."
[Qur'an 4:103]
Prayer
 Time
 Optional Prayers,
performed before
Obligatory Prayer
 Obligatory Prayer
Number of Units
(Rak'ah)
 Optional Prayers,
after Obligatory
Prayer
Fajr
 Dawn - Before
sunrise
 2
 2
 N/A
Thuhr
 Noonday - Zawaal,
sun passing its
zenith
 2 & 2
 4
 2
Asr
 Later afternoon -
time when shadow
of a vertical stick
equals its length -
sunset
 4
 4
 N/A
Maghrib
 Sunset -
disappearance of
red twilight (glow)
in the sky
 2
 3
 2
Isha
 Night -
disappearance of
the red glow. May
be performed up
to midnight
 2
 4
 2, 2, 1
The Five Obligatory Prayers and Optional Prayers
One Unit of Prayer (Rak'ah) constitutes certain actions: standing, bowing, prostrating, sitting, and prostrating. If one misses an
obligatory prayer due to sleep or forgetfulness, then the person must perform it a s soon as he/she wakes up or when he/she
remembers it.
What Is To Be Done Before Performing Salah

1-Ritual Purity (Wudhu' or Ghusl depending on the state of impurity.
2-Clean place.
3-Men to perform Obligatory Salah at the Mosque (except for a legal excuse; illness, etc.); rest of prayers at home.
4-Women to perform Salah in the innermost places at home (they are allowed to pray at the Mosques, but not
mandatory).
5-Wearing loose clothes that does not shape the private parts for men (and extend down until above the ankle), while
women cover their entire bodies except face and hands.
6-Standing close to a Sutrah in front of the Musalee (person in prayer) [Sutrah: an object like a pillar, sticking or laying
down on the ground, set  so that no human or animal can walk in front of the person performing Salah].

General Guidelines:
1-learn direction of Qiblah  & times of prayer in your location (contact closest Sunni Mosque)
2-Learn the movements and shorter sentences. Practice what is to be said in prayers.
3-Work to learn the Recitation of the Opening Chapter in the Qur'an (the Faatiha).
Performance of Salah

1-Intention (it is a determination in the heart that you are performing a
particular Salah; not to be uttered).

2-Face the direction of the Qiblah (Sacred House in Makkah Known as
Ka'bah). Raise your hands to the level of the shoulders, or earlobes, and say
ALLAHU AKBAR