Teens aL.I.V.E. @ An-Nahdhah

off for term break!

hablun minallah hablum minannas is a very powerful concept and as an individual, even though i've been learning it before, i didn't really realise it's importance until i started introducing the term to my teens classes.

Hablun minallah is relationship/submission to Allah, while hablum minannas is relationship among humankind. submission to Allah comes first, however, having relationship with others is important also, for example respecting your parents, helping your friends, zakat and sadaqah, these are actions among fellow humankind which is encouraged in Islam, and insya Allah, recorded as good deeds.

you see, i had to teach the class on Lesson Worshipping The One, which basically talks about Solat and how it benefits us. now, there is the activity on Worshipping or Non-worshipping whereby there are four different scenarios of persons with different 'degree' of worshipping. (not that we can judge people that way)

so i don't know how, but while i was trying to introduce the subject to them, suddenly this term comes to mind and i straightaway use it.

for example, Badriyyah has not been praying but she comes from a close-knitted family and have good relations with others. question: which does Badriyyah has? Hablun minallah or hablum minannas or both? so the students start to 'evaluate' Badriyyah.

now, right after this activity was going to be another lesson on Humanity, and at that moment, i realised i can continue using hablun minallah and hablum minannas, but now focus on hablum minannas, in a greater sense, which is the whole of Ummah.

and showed them a video clip (from Youtube, just google Ummah, and you'll get several clips) of the different faces of the ummah, and they were exceptionally fascinated when there's a picture of an African Muslim community, and there was a mosque of very unusual architecture, which looks like mounds of sands with 'spikes' all around it. and then a discussion started.

so that day, learningteens studied one thing, and only one thing: hablun minallah hablum minannas.

posted by learningteens @ 10:33 PM