SUMMER DISCOVERY PROJECT

Summer is the only season in North America when we get Here are some ideas:
enough time to come closer to nature. As a Muslim we • Earth changes as Allah wishes
should avail summer as an opportunity to get to nature.
Let us ponder upon nature. We should keep in mind it is
• Plants and animals follow Allah’s rule
only through deep thinking and understanding one can • Our life changes with Summer
realize the truth– the truth about the creation and the cre-
ator. Here are what you have to do:
You can bring in things you have found, such as flowers, • Write a short report on your project. You can get help
shells, fruits and vegetables, a bird's nest, insects during from others if you really need it.
the summer. Keep them in a special place in your home. • Your project can be an Essay or exhibition or poster.
Call it ‘Discovery spot’. • If it is an essay, send it to us by post or e-mail.
Prepare your ‘Summer Discovery Project’ • You can take picture of your project and send it to us.
• Address to send:
Ask your parents/elder brothers/sisters to help you work
on the project. Do some research on your collections. Post: MuslimVille, 66 Commodore Drive, Brampton,
Surf the internet or visit libraries to collect information. Ontario, Canada, L6X 0S6
Collect some references from the Quran relating your col- Email: mail@muslimville.com
lection to Allah’s wisdom.

QURANIC SIGNS AROUND THE NATURE

The parable of And with the Thamud (people), Who has made the earth firm to until they see
those who take who cut out (huge) rocks in live in; made rivers in its rain-drops
protectors oth- the valley? midst; set thereon mountains issue from the
er than Allah is Fajr 89:9 immovable, and made a sepa- midst thereof:
that of the Spi- rating bar between the two then when He
der, who builds Do they not observe the birds bodies of flowing water? (Can has made them
(to itself) a above them, spreading their there be another) god besides reach such of
house; but tru- wings and folding them in? Allah? Nay, most of them know His servants as
ly the flimsiest None can uphold them except not. He wills, be-
of houses is the Spider's house; (Allah) Most Gracious: truly it is Naml 27:61 hold, they do
if they but knew. He that watches over all things. rejoice!
Ankabut 29:41 Mulk 67:19 Do they not observe that Allah Rome 30:48
makes the clouds move gently,
At length, when they And the birds then joins them together, then Be a 'Friend of Earth'
came to a (lowly) gathered (in makes them into a heap? then
valley of ants, one assemblies): wilt thou see rain issue forth Al-Quran Says:
of the ants said: "O all with him did from their midst. And He sends
ye ants, get into turn (to Allah). down from the sky mountain We offered the trust to the
your habitations, lest Sad 38:19 masses (of clouds) wherein is heavens and the earth and the
Sulaiman and his hosts crush hail: He strikes therewith whom mountains, but they refused to
you (under foot) without know- Do they not He pleases and He Turns it carry it and were afraid of doing
ing it." observe that it away from whom He pleases. so; but man carried it. Surely
Namal 27:18 is Allah Whose praises all be- The vivid flash of His lightning he is wrong-doing, ignorant.
ings in the heavens and on well-nigh blinds the sight. Ahzab 33:72
And thy Lord taught the Bee to earth do celebrate, and the Nur 24:43
build its cells in birds (of the air) with wings
hills, on trees, and Allah says, we as human beings
outspread? Each one And do We not send are guardian, 'friend of Earth'.
in (men's) habita- knows its own (mode down from the
tions Human beings are the most
of) prayer and praise. clouds water in intelligent beings on earth so it
Nahl 16:68 And Allah knows well abundance, makes sense that we have the
all that they do. Naba 78:14 responsibility to care for our
Who has created Nur 24:41
the heavens and the earth, and It is Allah Who sends planet, to give it a hug and a
who sends you down rain from Do they not look at the forth the Winds, so health check now and again .
the sky? Yea, with it We cause birds, held poised in that they raise up
to grow well-planted orchards the midst of (the air and) the the Clouds, and We drive them
full of beauty and sky? Noth- to a land that is dead, and re-
delight: it is not in ing holds vive the earth therewith after
your power to cause them up but its death: even so (will be) the
the growth of the (the power Resurrection!
trees in them. (Can of) Allah. Fatir 35:9
there be another) god Verily in this
besides Allah? Nay, are Signs It is Allah Who sends the
they are a people for those Winds, and they raise the
who swerve from who believe. Clouds: then does He spread
justice. Nahl 16:79 them in the sky as He wills, and
Namal 27:60 break them into fragments,

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