Friday, January 26, 2007

I am inclining towards calling my program with the children ’Brainiac Connections’.
After all, the brain is Allah’s best creation. The Universe is big, but the brain is big enough to encompass the universe! The brain, coupled with a conscience, is what defines humans, who thus become Allah’s noblest creation.
Why ‘connections’? Well, in this program we are trying to connect to:-
Our design
Our Designer
Our Book
Our surroundings – family, society, environment and universe.

The children are at the stage where they still haven’t lost touch with their primal nature and that fire that we are programmed with must be kept alive.
I have a little journal in which a truly original thought is written down by the kid who comes up with it. I am very picky about this. Very picky indeed. Only the very best, that everyone gets impressed with is allowed in. Absolutely no compromise here. And the kids love it. I have announced that this is the special gift that they are giving me.
A few quotes from this journal will illustrate my point.
9:128. “ The Prophet was kind and worryed” The story behind this connection is that one girl said that if your brother is careless and does not bother to do his homework, you should do it for him, so he won’t get into trouble. The others shouted him down because that way he won’t use his brain and that is not right. But it is really a Sunnah to worry about other people getting into trouble.
8:63. “Allah has put love in the hearts of the believers because they help togeather to mange the earth.” The idea is that humans are Allah’s Khalifas.
“I will not lie and if I forgot my homework or anything. Iwill tell the truth and take the punishment because it was my falt not my parents.” Individual responsibility?
They all sound very painfully pious and self-righteous, judging by these outpourings, but the one hour we have together, is very chaotic. There is a lot of giggling and some bathroom humor and any amount of bouncing around on the sofa etc. Just kids enjoying themselves and the best kind of fun is getting great ideas.

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