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?The Big Question
What would you do if your whole life changed in one night?
Write your first answer now. You will come back to it at the end.
1Put the story in order
Number the parts of the chapter from 1 to 6, in the order they happen.
- The Old Man Who Knew
- “Cover Me!”
- A Book Sent Down Over Time
- “I Am Not a Reader”
- Forty Years Old
- The Pause, and “Arise and Warn”
2Match the words
Write the letter of the right meaning next to each word.
- Wahy وَحْي
- Iqra' اقْرَأْ
- Al-Muddaththir المُدَّثِّر
- A “The one wrapped in a cloak”, the name of Surah 74, whose first verses say “Arise and warn”.
- B “Read!” or “Recite!” The first word of the Qur'an to be revealed.
- C Revelation: Allah's message brought by the angel Jibril to a prophet.
3True or false?
Circle T for true or F for false. Correct the false ones on the line.
The revelation began in the month of Ramadan.
TFThe first word of the Qur'an to be revealed was “Pray!”
TFWaraqah warned that his people would drive him out.
TFKhadijah told him that Allah would never disgrace him.
TFThe Qur'an came down all at once, in one night.
TF
4Quick quiz
Circle the best answer.
How old was Muhammad ﷺ when the revelation began?
- ATwenty-five
- BForty
- CSixty-three
What was the first word revealed?
Who did Khadijah take him to?
- AAbu Talib
- BWaraqah ibn Nawfal
- CAbu Bakr
What did Waraqah warn him about?
- AThat he would become rich
- BThat his people would drive him out
- CThat he would become a king
5From the Qur'an: read, copy, understand
ٱقۡرَأۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ١ خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنۡ عَلَقٍ ٢ ٱقۡرَأۡ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلۡأَكۡرَمُ ٣ ٱلَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِٱلۡقَلَمِ ٤ عَلَّمَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمۡ يَعۡلَمۡ ٥
“Read in the name of your Lord who created: created the human being from a clinging clot. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous, who taught by the pen, taught the human being what he did not know.”
Surah al-Alaq 96:1–5 · meaning in plain English
Copy the verse carefully in Arabic:
What does this verse teach you?
6Think and write
Why do you think the first word of the Qur'an was “Read!”?
What is one thing you want to learn this year, and how could it help other people?
?Back to the Big Question
What would you do if your whole life changed in one night?
Has your answer changed? Write it again using what you learned.
Imagined scene: “Cover Me!”
Colour the place where this part of the story happened. No people are shown.
Eight-pointed stars like these decorate mosques and books across the Muslim world. Choose three colours and repeat them.
1Story order
- Forty Years Old
- “I Am Not a Reader”
- “Cover Me!”
- The Old Man Who Knew
- The Pause, and “Arise and Warn”
- A Book Sent Down Over Time
2Words
- Wahy → C
- Iqra' → B
- Al-Muddaththir → A
3True or false
- True. The Qur'an says it was revealed in Ramadan (2:185).
- False. It was “Read!” (96:1).
- True. “No man has ever come with anything like what you have brought without being treated with hostility.”
- True. She listed the ways he looked after other people (Bukhari 3).
- False. Allah sent it down in parts over twenty-three years (17:106).
4Quiz
- B · Forty
- A · Read!
- B · Waraqah ibn Nawfal
- B · That his people would drive him out
Questions 5 and 6 have no single right answer. Look for answers that use details from the chapter.