Springing up Our Salah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

From the Ahadīth of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, we are taught to teach children to pray Salāh from age 7. ⁣⁣

Alhumdulillāh, we as teachers encourage this but as they grow older, it’s important for us to instil the importance of not missing a Salāh in them.

⁣⁣Last year, I was teaching 9-10year olds and when all of them had turned 10, I decided to do a 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐥ā𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 of 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.

This post has details regarding Week 1 of the theme. InshaAllah, more to come regarding the next weeks.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞 & 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐬.⁣⁣

I bought oval-shaped clocks for the boys and heart shaped ones for the girls. (Clocks were purchased from Durban – Osman’s for approx. R35 each)⁣⁣

The reason for gifting them the alarm clocks was to teach them responsibility and to create awareness in their homes also.⁣⁣

The purpose of creating the theme was to create interest and support to the students in performing all 5 Salāh as many kids feel unsupported from their parents and home situations.⁣⁣

Envelope Contents

Each student’s envelope contained:

Yearly Perpetual Salah Calendar (for my city – Durban)
The Cutest Daily Salah Charts for 2 months which I downloaded from www.riadaljanna.com
- Salah Doorknob Hangers encouraging waking up for Fajr Salah (download found in this blogpost)
  - Plain Paper which we used to write special letters to the parents regarding their intention to perform all 5 Salah and requesting Dua and assistance. See the pic below

Letters written by the students to their parents

Salah is Better than Sleep

Front of doorknob hanger – You have permission to sprinkle water on my face

Back of doorknob hanger – I’ve set my alarm to wake up for Fajr Salaah

The students coloured and designed these and I laminated them after which, they took it home to use. Alhumdulillah, the feedback after this was great so I decided to share it.

Click the download button below to download the PDF and print it inshaAllah!

door-hangers-fajr Download

Oh and don’t forget to make them write “Salah is better than sleep” on both sides of the door hanger handle.

Alhumdulillāh, as the days went by, they progressed and many of them started performing Fajr every day.

P.S: I have written a post about Salaah Time in the classroom, check it out below:⁣

https://madrasahteacher.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/salaah-time/

I hope you found this beneficial and I’d love to know your thoughts and feedback after you’ve also tried it out!