Lesson video

Hello fine theologians, and welcome to another Religious Education lesson with me, Mr. Green.

Today we are going to spend some time doing something called deliberate practise together.

Essentially, what that means is we're going to spend a good amount of time going over key stories and key quotations, and making sure that we can remember them really precisely and recall them with accuracy.

In order to do that, you are going to need four things with you.

Please make sure you have a pen, a different colour pen, some paper to work on and, of course, your theology brains.

If you need to go and get any of those things, please go and do that now, and rejoin me in just a moment.

In today's wonderful hour of theology, we are going to review our key scripture verses within the Islamic practises unit.

We're going to firstly just make sure we've reviewed the scripture verses so we know what they are and can recall them.

And then we're going to apply those to key content from the unit so that we can use them to explain in a good level of detail.

Before we move on, it'd be really good just to remind ourselves what's covered in this unit.

You can see the four main areas of the five pillars, the 10 obligatory acts, jihad and festivals.

You can see lessons for all that content within this unit on the Oak National Academy.

We're going to focus on key verses today that we can use to explain lots of these things, and you can see I've just put a little note by Salah and Zakah and some of the quotations I'm going to show you from the Quran today.

There might be slight, they might be spelled slightly differently and that's just because of the way that it's translated.

It still means the same things.

If you see it being spelled a slight differently, don't worry, it's not a mistake, it's just because it's translated slightly differently in some translations.

We're going to focus firstly on five scripture references.

And the five scripture references we're going to focus on are these ones.

This should look familiar to you.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

This is the Shahadah, so it links doesn't it, to the first pillar of Islam, Shahadah, and has within it two key beliefs.

It has Tawhid.

There's no God but Allah, i.

e.

Allah is one, the only God.

And Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

That relates to Islamic belief in prophets and Muhammad as the final prophet.

The second quotation we're going to work with today is this one.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone do we worship.

And that's a really useful quotation to have for our second pillar of Islam, Salah.

It talks about prayer, doesn't it? It talks about giving praise to God, because it's the right thing to do.

And this quotation we'll take a little bit of, but not all of it.

Also gives lots of reasons why Muslims would pray to God.

Because He's a creator.

Because He's in charge of the Day of Judgement.

It's right to give gratitude and express love and thanks to Allah for those things.

The third quotation: The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

The last hour will also take place on no other day than Friday.

This quotation's really useful for this unit as well and again relates to that second pillar of Islam, Salah.

It's really useful for one particular type of prayer.

The particular type of prayer that this is really useful for is a Jum'ah prayer, because a Jum'ah prayer is a special Friday prayer.

It's one of the prayers of Salah, the Friday afternoon prayers, but it has special significance.

This verse here explains why Friday's such a special day within the Islamic religious tradition.

Because it's the day that it's believed man was created, and also the day in which it's believed the Day of Judgement will take place.

And then, this quotation here talks about zakat, and most of the time, in these lessons start with an H, so I've taken a direct quotation from a Quran.

You can see in brackets here it starts with a T, but it's still the same thing that tells us welfare Funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

Then it mentions six other groups, doesn't it? And this tells us about the importance of zakat because it's an instruction from Allah to give to charity, and it also lists the groups of poor people in society today that might not have much money and also the destitute need in society.

You don't just have to be poor to be needy.

You could be really needy, couldn't you, if you're really ill and needed help? That would also mean that you were in need of financial help.

And the fifth and final one on the first set is, God loves those who do good.

And again, we can link this to zakat, can't we? Charity payments fulfilling that instruction from Allah to make your zakat payment is a really good thing to do and that it's important to the extent it fulfils the teachings of the Quran.

And Allah makes it clear that He loves those people that do good things and Muslims should live their lives in such way that they're able to receive the love of Allah.

Now we are going to do some tricky work and it's going to be a process, a process which is really going to help us make sure we can memorise these five key scripture verses.

The first part of that process is me giving you the scripture verses with some words taken out and giving you a word box to fill that in with.

I would like you now please, to copy out the references in full and obviously you can use the word bank to complete them.

It'll probably take you four or five minutes to do that.

Pause the video now, and then join me for feedback in just a moment.

Here you have the five quotations so you can check your work.

There's no God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone do We worship.

And the best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

The last hour will take place on no other day than Friday.

Welfare funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

And God loves those who do good.

So if you need to check your work now, tick it to say yes, it's great, I'm a fine, wise and noble theologian, or just correct it.

Please pause the video now and make those changes in a different colour pen.

Right, the second stage now.

This is going to be trickier, but you've got to go with the process.

Go with the process and you will, within 15 minutes, have to recall all of these things with great accuracy.

You can see it's the same quotations, the same words missing, but I've made it a bit harder by removing the missing word box.

I need you not to look at the work you've just done.

You've got to be really honest with yourself.

Don't do it.

If you do that, you remove the challenge and you won't then benefit from it.

So, try really hard.

Write them out in full again.

Can you complete these without looking back at your work? Again, a few minutes, pause the video and then join me for some feedback in a moment.

Good effort.

Let's see how you managed to do then.

So check your work again.

No God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone do We worship.

The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

The last hour will take place on no other day than a Friday.

And welfare funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

And God loves those who do good.

So again if you need to, pause, check your work.

Tick or make any corrections or amendments and then join me for the third step in this process.

The third step in this process of becoming fine and wise and noble theologians who can remember scripture verses is to complete these ones, which are even harder because they've had even more words removed.

Again, you've got to stay true to the process.

You've got to love the process.

You've got to know it's hard, but you've got to respect that if I do this and try really hard, I will be able to remember them.

Here you have the same five verses again.

Put your other work away, make sure you can't see it and have a go at doing these quotations for me, too.

Off you go.

Pause the video now.

Excellent.

Well done.

So, hopefully you have these five quotations written like this.

No God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone do We worship.

The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

And the last hour will take place on no day other than Friday.

Welfare funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

And God loves those who do good.

Again, pause the video, check your work, make any corrections or amendments in a different colour pen.

And here we go, a fourth stage in the process.

We're getting better at it.

We're getting more confident, we're getting able to do things now, which you perhaps couldn't have done about 10 minutes ago.

So it's working.

Let's keep going.

You've got the same five quotations again, more words removed.

See if you can do these ones for me.

Pause the video now.

Terrific effort again.

Well done.

Again, check your quotations against these five.

No God but Allah and Muhammad is a prophet of Allah.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone do We worship.

The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

The last hour will take place on no day other than Friday.

Welfare funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

And God loves those who do good.

So again, pause the video, check your work and see what you have managed to do.

And finally, the fifth part of this magnificent jigsaw where we're going to be able to recall these quotations with great precision, great accuracy to make sure we are fine, wise and noble theologians is to see if you can complete them with just those words at the start.

Have a go.

See what you can do.

Pause the video, and then join me for feedback in just a moment.

Terrific.

Well done for all your effort.

Hopefully your five quotations look just like this.

No God but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

Praise belongs to God, Master of the Day of Judgement.

You alone We do worship.

The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday.

On it, Adam was created.

The last hour will take place on no day other than Friday.

Welfare funds are only for the poor, the destitute.

And God loves those who do good.

I bet you're impressed with yourself.

You should be.

If you've gone through that process, even if you haven't quite got them perfect now, no doubt you've really improved in how much of those quotations you can recall.

A terrific effort and well done.

The next job is to make this slightly more impactful.

And by that, I mean not only are we recalling the quotations, but we're now also going to focus on making sure that we can use these quotations to explain some of the really important Islamic practises that we have been looking at during this unit.

You can see on the left hand side of your screens, I have noted down there these five quotations and on the right hand side, I've given you a sentence starter and that's for you to use your wonderful theological brains to explain how that quotation linked to the practise that I've mentioned.

So for example, the first one, this is the Shahadah.

It links to Salah because.

So you might mention now look, the Shahadah is about keeping God on your mind at all times and Salah requires Muslims to pray five times a day.

And that practise helps make sure that they're keeping Allah on their mind all times throughout the day.

So pause the video now, and take six, seven minutes to have a go at doing those lovely explanations for me.

And then join me in a moment for some feedback.

Let's have a look at the first two.

The first one was linking the Shahadah to Salah.

And, hopefully what you've put there is look, the Shahadah requires Muslims to keep Allah on their minds at all times.

And Salah helps Muslims to do that by praying five times a day.

The second quotation we're thinking about zakah, weren't we? We're thinking about charity funds.

And that's telling us which specific groups are able to receive zakah.

And it tells us that it's the poor, all those without money, and the destitute or needy, e.

g.

ill.

Those are two groups which zakah can be used to help.

If you need to just check your work there, pause the video and do that for me now.

Right, and then the other three quotations we have here, linking to Salah.

Prayer is giving praise to Allah, isn't it? And Allah deserves that praise because He's the only God, and He's the creator and ultimate judge.

There's another one that linked to zakah.

So what we wanted to put there is that this links zakah because charity is a good deed.

It's commanded by Allah, so Allah will give love and mercy to those who follow his commands.

That thing that Allah loves those who do good.

And then the final one here, the quotation that talks about Friday being the best day.

It's the day Adam was created and the day judgement will take place.

We can link that to Salah and in particularly Jum'ah prayers, because Friday, the day of the Jum'ah prayers, is a significant day in Islam.

It's the day man was created and the day judgement will take place, and praising Allah on this day helps Muslims to remember that and inspires them to pray for those things.

So again, check your work there for me, please.

And if you need to make any corrections or amendments, you can use a different colour pen and then join me for some more activities in just a moment.

Now we're going to have a look at our second set of scripture references.

Let's have a look at this second set of quotations, then.

The first one: decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

This tells us two things, doesn't it? First, we've got the instruction to fast.

Something's decreed.

It's an instruction, you have to do it.

So Allah is decreeing that fasting is important.

Then we've got the purpose, as well.

Do it so that you may become righteous.

It means it's going to help you to submit to God.

It's going to help you live your life in a way that follows all of Allah's instructions.

The next one: Lord, guide us to the right path.

This one is one we studied together when we looked at our lesson on jihad.

It talks about the path, doesn't it? This is about the struggle to stay on the path of Islam.

And we know it's a struggle because we're asking Allah's guidance.

The struggle to stay on Allah's path involves the struggle to follow all of Allah's rules and submit to him.

This is to do with jihad, that struggle.

The third one, the story of Ibrahim.

Allah tested Ibrahim by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

And when Allah saw he was prepared to do this, He provided an animal to be sacrificed instead.

This has two really important reference points in this unit.

The first really important reference point, it's the pilgrimage of Hajj because on Hajj, Muslims perform lots of rituals that relate specifically to this story.

And the second really important reference is Id-ul-Adha, because Id-ul-Adha, is the festival of sacrifice.

And in particular, Muslims celebrate the fest, the sacrifice that Ibrahim was prepared to make for Allah.

That is the perfect example of submission.

The fourth one: fight for the cause of God, against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

This is also one we looked at when we studied jihad together.

Now, this quotation is referring to lesser jihad, and lesser jihad is the struggle to build a fair Islamic community.

And that might involve the use of force, might, but not demand.

It might involve the use of force in order to defend the faith from attack so that the religion of Islam can flourish and that people can submit to Allah without fear of threat.

The second part of this quotation also makes it clear, look, you cannot break rules if you are in a conflict.

It tells Muslims not to transgress, and a transgression is a breaking of the rule.

Now, this quotation doesn't mention the rules, but there are really clear rules for lesser jihad.

And Muhammad made those rules really clear.

He said, for example, that if you were involved in a battle, you were not to kill the elderly, you were not to kill children, you were not to kill women.

You were not to harm the environment, you know.

You were not to burn down trees or harm trees.

There are lots of rules of lesser jihad, so let's both talk about yes, there is acceptable-to-use force in order to defend the faith.

But equally, if you are using force, you've got to make sure you follow the rule.

And this fifth one, the battle of Karbala.

Remembering that Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They would rather die and expose Yazid as cruel and an unfit leader than yield to him.

And this is really important for this unit because it's these events that Shia Muslims recall during The Festival of Ashura.

We're going to do the same work again, and it's the same work we've just done, so we know, yeah, it's hard.

We know, yeah, it makes us think.

But we also know it's really valuable, because that process we just did with the first set of five quotations helped just to recall them with a great degree of accuracy.

So, putting in some really hard work now really does have a lot of benefits.

So, can you please, copy out these quotations, putting in the middle words, the missing words, sorry, making sure you write them out in full.

Pause the video now, please, and do that for me.

Right, so your feedback.

Check your work really carefully.

The first one, Allah tested Ibrahim him by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

When Allah saw he was prepared to do this, he provided an animal to be sacrificed instead.

Secondly, Lord, guide us to the right path.

Thirdly, decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

The fourth one: Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They would rather die and expose Yazid as cruel and an unfit leader than yield.

And the fifth one: fight for the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

If you need to make any corrections, please pause the video now and do that in a different colour pen.

Onto the second set, you remember this.

It's the same quotations, the same words missing, but this time there's no word bank, so it's a bit more challenging.

Remember, the most important thing is that you try and force yourself to remember.

So, this is just the temptation.

Struggle against the temptation to look back at your work.

Pause the video now and do that for me now, please.

Fantastic effort.

Let's see how you did, then.

First one, Allah tested Ibrahim by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

When Allah saw he was prepared to do this, he provided an animal to be sacrificed instead.

The second one: Lord, guide us to the right path.

The third one: decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

The fourth one: Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They would rather die and expose Yazid as cruel and an unfit leader than yield.

And the fifth one: fight for the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

The third set of quotations.

Remember this is even harder again, isn't it.

So, what you need to do is pause the video, look at the quotations, there's more words taken out, and try and write them out in full again.

But resist the temptation to look back at any previous work.

Force yourself to remember, it's hard but worthwhile.

Off you go.

Pause it now for me.

Brilliant Job.

Well done.

Let's go through these.

Allah tested Ibrahim by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

When Allah saw he was prepared to do this, he provided an animal to be sacrificed instead.

The next one: Lord, guide us to the right path.

The third one: decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

The fourth one: Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They would rather die and expose Yazid as a cruel and unfit leader than yield.

And the fifth one: fight for the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

If you need to pause the video to check your work, add some feedback, please do that for me now in a different colour pen.

Right! Fine and wise and noble theologians, we're making some really good progress here, aren't we? You are making excellent progress in being able to recall these quotations.

I've made it harder again for you this time.

So have another go and please continue to resist the urge to look back at your work.

Off you go.

Pause it now for me.

Terrific work.

It's working, isn't it? So, Allah tested Ibrahim by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

When Allah saw he was prepared to do this, he provided an animal to be sacrificed instead.

The next one: Lord, guide us to the right path.

I missed a missing word right there.

I tested myself and I got it, yay! Next one.

Decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

The fourth one: Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They would rather die and expose Yazid as a cruel and unfit leader than yield.

And the fifth one: fight for the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

Again, if you need to pause the video to make corrections and amendments, please do that now for me.

And let's see if we can do this, then.

This is what we've been working for.

This is what all that hard work was for.

I've just given you the starting words.

Can you complete these quotations without looking at any of the work you've done from memory? You'll be surprised at what you can do.

Off you go.

Pause the video now for me.

Brilliant.

I bet you got it again, didn't you? I bet you've done really well.

So, Allah tested Ibrahim by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael.

When Allah saw he was prepared to do this, He provided an animal to be sacrificed again.

Lord guide us to the right path, missed out again, but we know it, don't we? We know it's the right path.

Decreed upon you is fasting, you may become righteous.

Imam Hussein and his followers were killed in the battle of Karbala.

They'd rather die and expose Yazid as cruel and an unfit leader than yield.

And fight for the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress.

So again, check your work.

I'm sure at this stage, you probably don't have that many corrections to add in.

You have been doing terrific work and trying really hard.

Well done.

Now we can recall those five quotations, so now we need to make sure that we are fine, wise and noble theologians who can also explain these quotations and how they link to some of the really important practises that we've been studying in this unit.

You can see I've put the quotations down the left hand side, and then on the right hand side, told you which specific practises I would like you to link those too.

So pause the video now, can we please.

Use those sentence starters to help you explain how those quotations link to these practises.

Do that for me now, please.

Let's have a look at the first two.

How does that one link to Sawm and Id-ul-Fitr? Well, fasting helps direct a Muslim's focus on God and demonstrates submission, and additionally, Id-ul-Fitr celebrates the breaking of the fast.

And how did that second one link to jihad? Well, we said at the start jihad is the struggle to stay on the straight path of Islam.

And the greater jihad is a personal spiritual struggle to submit to Allah.

And our second set of three.

How does that one link to Hajj and Id-ul-Adha? Well, the rituals of Hajj relate to Ibrahim's actions in that story, don't they? Id-ul-Adha's celebrate the submission of Ibrahim and the sacrifice he was prepared to make for Allah.

The quotation about fighting in the cause of God is linked to the lesser jihad because it's a struggle to defend the faith.

And this can involve the use of force.

And there are rules that need to be followed in lesser jihad, as we said when we were introducing those quotations.

And then the final one.

The story of Imam Hussein, the battle of Karbala, how does that link to Ashura? During Ashura, Shi'a Muslims recall these events and mourn than the death of Imam Hussein.

They will also reflect upon the triumph of good over evil.

Hussein showed Yazid to be an unfit rule.

So even though Hussein and his followers die, they still view that as a success because ultimately he managed to demonstrate that Yazid was not a fit ruler.

I am really impressed with you.

You have done loads of terrific work and worked really hard there to remember quotations and link them to these really important practises.

So a massive "well done." Now, just to double check you can remember everything that you want to be able to remember, please make sure you do have a look at that quiz.

If you want to share your brilliant, fantastic work with the Oak National Academy, please do so by asking your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter using information you can see on your screens.

That just leads me to say, "well done." And thank you for joining me.

I very much look forward to seeing you soon for some more religious education.