Muslim Parenting

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These come from Kristie Karima Burn’s Islamic Waldorf School Online website and use the tunes to popular nursery rhymes to teach the basics of Islam - alhamdullilah!:

THE FIVE PRAYERS by Karima Burns

(sung to the tune of ‘Five Little Ducks’)

Five Muslim Prayers I’ll pray today.

As Muslims we pray five times a day.

Before I pray I do wudu

Before the sun rises I’ll pray Fajr with you.

Four more Muslim prayers I’ll pray today.

As Muslims we pray five times a day.

Before I pray I do Wudu.

Near lunch time I’ll pray Duhr with you.

Three more Muslim Prayers I’ll pray today.

As Muslims we pray five times a day.

Before I pray I do Wudu

In the Afternoon I’ll pray Asr with you.

Two more Muslim prayers I’ll pray today

As Muslims we pray five times a day.

Before I pray I do Wudu.

And at sunset I’ll pray Maghreb with you.

One more Muslim prayer I’ll pray today

As Muslims we pray five times a day.

Before I pray I’ll do Wudu

And at night I’ll pray Eisha with you!

WE’RE MAKING AN IFTAR CAKE Modified by Karima Burns
(to the tune of “The Farmer’s in the Dell”)

We’re making an Iftar cake, we’re making an Iftar cake;
We’re going to make it really big,
Because we’ve all been fasting.

Flour in the bowl, flour in the bowl;
Stir it with a great big spoon,
Flour in the bowl.

continue with other ingredients: sugar, salt,
dates, butter, etc.

Put it in the oven, put it in the oven;
Until it’s nicely cooked.

Alhamdullilah!

Icing on the top, icing on the top;
Spread it with a big, flat knife,
Bisimillah!

Bisimillah, we all have a piece;
Some for you and some for me,
Alhamdullilah!

And now it’s all gone, and now it’s all gone;
Yumm it was very good,
Alhamdullilah

DATES FOR IFTAR By Karima Burns

One date, two dates,
Three dates, four;
We Break our Fast with Dates,
But can I please have some more?

FIVE PILLARS HAS ISLAM by Karima Burns
(to the tune of Old Macdonald Had a Farm)

Five Pillars has Islam.

The first pillar is Shaahada.

La ilaha Ilallah

Wa Muhammedan Rasuulallah

Five pillars has Islam

The second one is to pray

Muslims pray five times a day

Each and every day.

Five pillars has Islam

The third pillar is zakat

Zakat Means to give Alms
We All give Zakat

Five pillars has Islam

The fourth one is Siyam

Siyam means to fast

The month of Ramadan.

Five pillars has Islam

The fifth one is the Hajj

Hajj means to make pilgrimage

to Mecca.

First posted on July 18, 2006

Stay-at-home, homeschooling Dad, Bob Harte got frustrated with the amount of time his son was spending on the computer.

So, he hired a programmer to create software that would time his son’s use of the computer and log him off automatically once he had reached his limit.

The software, which works on computers running Windows XP is available for free download.

It’s linked to from the website community, AmigoMaker, that Harte runs for hunters and fishermen.

I have not used the software and don’t know Mr. Harte personally, so I cannot vouch for the quality of the software.