Four Arabic coloring books, sold as a set, whose subject is character — raising children in the light of the words of the Master of the Righteous ﷺ.
Teaching Manners Through Pictures
Character is the hardest thing to teach a small child by instruction, because instruction is exactly what he tunes out. Telling a five-year-old to be truthful, to be kind to his brother, to greet people, to say what is good or stay silent — it goes in one ear.
Showing him a picture of it, and letting him spend five minutes coloring that picture, works differently. He looks at the scene properly, he asks what is happening in it, and the hadith attached to it arrives as an explanation of something he is already interested in rather than as a correction.
Arabic Only
Entirely in Arabic, which makes these well suited to Arabic-speaking households and Arabic-medium schools — and to any family that wants a child to associate Arabic with something he enjoys rather than only with lessons.
Who It Is For
Young children, roughly pre-school to early primary. Islamic schools and weekend academies, where a set of four covers a term. Parents wanting an activity that is genuinely quiet and genuinely useful at the same time.
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الوصف بالعربية
تربية الأطفال على ضوء كلام سيد الأبرار: أربعة كتب تلوين باللغة العربية موضوعها الأخلاق والآداب في ضوء كلام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم.
والخُلق أصعب ما يُعلَّم الصغير بالأمر المجرّد، لأن الأمر المجرّد هو أول ما يُعرض عنه. فقولك لابن الخامسة: اصدق، وأحسن إلى أخيك، وأفشِ السلام، وقل خيرًا أو اصمت — يمرّ عليه ولا يقف.
أما أن تريه ذلك مصوَّرًا، ويقضي في تلوين الصورة دقائق، فأمر آخر: ينظر في المشهد نظرًا حقيقيًّا، ويسأل عمّا فيه، فيأتي الحديث المقترن به بيانًا لشيء قد اشتغل به قلبه، لا تقويمًا يُساق إليه.
مناسبة لما قبل المدرسة وأوائل المرحلة الابتدائية، وللمدارس الإسلامية والمدارس العربية.
