Grade 4 sits at the midpoint of the primary years, and the material broadens accordingly — more seerah, more of the fiqh a child is now old enough to be responsible for, and etiquette applied to a widening set of situations.
A student at this level is approaching the age at which prayer becomes a settled habit, and the book is built with that in view.
What the Series Sets Out to Do
Schools teaching Islamic studies in English have long had to assemble a curriculum from whatever was available at each level. Darussalam produced this series to answer that need: one book per grade, built as a single progression rather than as twelve unrelated titles.
Every grade covers all areas of Islamic studies — tafseer, hadeeth, tawheed, fiqh, seerah and general etiquette — treated at the depth the age allows, so a student meets each subject repeatedly across his schooling rather than once.
Arabic Terms Are Kept
Most Islamic terms are given in the original Arabic script, with transliteration and a translation of the meaning. The same applies to supplications that have to be memorized in Arabic.
The aim is that a student can read the original text and understand it, rather than learning an English substitute for a term and never meeting the word itself. Every effort has been made to ensure the material presented is authentic.
The Rest of the Series
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12.
The complete set covers all twelve at a discount.