The Chronicles Newham Islamic Learning Centre
An eventful Summer Volume 5, Issue 1
Joining NILC has been an amazing opportunity for me, it has allowed me to participate in numerous projects, meet new people, and see my ideas come to life! One of the projects I have initiated is Creative Deen Islamic Activities Holiday Scheme, which we first trialed during May Half term, and due to parental requests have repeated in the last two weeks of the Summer holidays. Through this scheme I have witnessed the confidence of both children and volunteers soar. I am honoured to have been able to deliver these sessions and observe the concept of learning through play with an Islamic basis coming in to fruition. As well as this, in the last 6 months I have been able to run regular sister’s halaqa, iftars, Ramadan preparation course, get togethers and so much more! It really has been
1st September 2013
Newham Islamic Learning Centre Family Eid Outing to Shoeburyness Seaside in Essex.
A wonderful learning experience which has been challenging, stimulating and rewarding. The best thing about working in NILC is that I found an organization which shares my aspirations and ideaology. At NILC we aim to serve the community that we live in. We wish to support and empower
families and children so that they are able to be successful and take ownership of the area they live in. We want to develop a cohesive and sustaibable community and I am proud to play my small part in striving to achieve that!
Mon—Thurs 5pm-7pm Sat & Sun 2pm-6pm KiPP2 Tuition Sat & Sun 10am—1pm Homework Help Fri 5pm-7pm
Muslimah Directions Halaqah Starting 4th Sep fortnightly Wed 1pm—3pm Knitter natter Starting 12/9/13 Thurs 10am—12pm
Inside this issue: NILC @ The Beach
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The Big Event
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Little Ilford Park FC
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Kids Corner
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Creative Dee
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Upcoming Events
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Contact Details
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Jazakallah khayrun to NILC for letting me be involved! Naila (Nalini) Naidoo
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Islamic Parenting taster 18/9/13 1pm—2.30pm Syria Fundraiser 21/9/13 time tbc Weekly Parenting Course Thurs 26/9/13—24/10/13 1pm—2.30pm
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FAMILY EID
On Thursday 15th of August NILC took over 20 families to Shoeburyness beach for a family Eid celebration. The aim of this outing was to promote family cohesion and togetherness as well as to provide new experiences for families and children. We wanted to give people an opportunity to do something new, which they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do otherwise. Out of the families who attended, none had been to Shoeburyness before and at the end of the trip, every one said they would feel confident in returning to the same beach independently. Shoeburyness though near in distance, in nature is far from the hustle and bustle of Southend. We found a picturesque, relaxing and welcoming seaside town. While we relaxed on the grassy embankment, the children were able to freely run around the play area and beach, without us fearing we would lose sight of them. The walled sea lido provided an opportunity for us to amuse ourselves in the sea water even when the tide was out, and many adults and children made the most of this! It was an incredibly serene and tranquil environment which was so easy and quick to get to! Thank you to all those who came and made our trip a success
HE SEASIDE
D OUTING
“It was honestly amazing, we had our own family time which was great! My husband is definitely going to drive us down here again!”
“The seaside trip was wonderful, the best bit was swimming, the nice things were that there was a lot of water you can nicely go in, and at the end you can look for creatures which is really fun, I saw a crab. We can make a rocky sand castle. Going to the park was really cool and fun! Climbing up and down the rocks was really fun. Having our friends there was better than just going
Thank you to all those who supported us by attending our fundraiser, Building the Believers, on July 30th at The Royal Regency, East Ham. Also thank you to those who couldn't come but have pledged to donate online. A fantastic time was had by all who were involved. For those who were unable to attend we would like to share some of our evening with you, and for those who did attend we hope to remind you of an enjoyable evening!
Oud Stall
Auction items
Canvas for auction
Sister’s Magazine Stall
Khalid Khan and Sheykh Sulayman Ghani
Quran and Seerah distribution
The Tabkes
Children’s work on display
NILC Thanks Shayjh Sulayman with a canvas
Adnan Rashid of IERA and Abdul Wahab
Shaolin Kung Fu
Know Muhammad Essay Readings by kids
Sheykh Sulayman Ghani Subscribes to Sister’s
Abdul Wahab aka UK Apache performs “I was a Nutta” and “Original Nutta”
Magazine!
Al Qawi Self Defence
Brothers Setting up
Ehsan Shaolin Kung Fu
Amir Khan Signed items for auction
Madrassah Performances
Live Calligraphy
As you can see it was an eventful evening with a lot going on! May Allah bless all those who volunteered their time and energy to volunteer and prepare and perform at the event, the speakers for giving up their time fisabillah, and all those who donated, pledged and bought auction items, in order to contribute to the success of the evening. May Allah also bless our sponsors; The Royal Regency, GrillFellas Zam Zam, Pola's Jalebi Stall (Whitechapel), KidsWorld and Ali Catering Events Ltd
LITTLE ILFORD PARK FC
“Fernado because he’s an amazing striker and a great scorer. He is the best.” Jayden
“Rooney is my star player. Rooney is my favourite football player because he sets a good example for me to learn from. I think Rooney scored the most goals in Man United last Season. If I saw Rooney, I would ask him to teach me some skills.” Elvis
“Neymar Da Silva Santos Junior is currently a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga Club FC Barcelona and the Brazilian National team. At the age of 19, Neymar won the 2011 South American
footballer of the year award. He is known for
his acceleration, speed and dribbling”. Ahmed
qualities our
MY FAVOURITE PLAYER
Little Ilford ark Football Coaching, for under 14s is on Saturdays 11:30 am to 1pm.
We asked some of the younger children to write about their favourite player, and why they are inspired by them, the following are some extracts from the responses we received. From this we can learn the qualities our children admire and aspire to, which have been triggered by participation in football.
“John Terry is a professional English footballer. He is captain of the Chelsea team and plays an the centre back position. I like most that even though he is the Captain, he is a team
player.” Michael
Kids’ Corner Please submit your children’s work for this page
Allah is.. (To the tune of London Bridge is falling down.)
Allah He hears everything
Allah is the greatest
Everything, everything,
He is one, He’s Ahad
Even when we talk quietly, (whisper)
La illaha il Allah
He is as Samee
Allahu akbar
Allah is our Lord, He is master, He is king Plants and animals bow down to him, He is al Malik
Allah gives us everything, Everything, everything
Allah is the creator,
Money, food and family.
Creator creator.
He is ar Razzaq
Of The whole world in its entirety, He is al Khaliq
Allah He protects us all, Keeps us safe, away from harm
Allah He knows everything Everything, everything,
Allah looks after us. He is al Muhaymin
Every leaf on every tree He is al Alim
Allah responds to all of us
Allah He sees everything
He hears us pray, knows our needs
Everything, everything
We make dua only to Allah
We can’t hide from Allah.
He is al Mujib
He is al Bashir So let Him see us do Good things Say Good things, giving thanks to Him Let’s all be good Muslims, Worshipping Allah.
Poem by Nalini Naidoo
CREATIV
TEACHING YOUR CHILD ISLAMIC CONCEPTS AN Creative Deen 2, Summer activities club was run from 19th to 22nd and 26th to 29th August. We believe Children learn best through being actively involved, through doing and experiences that will InshaAllah be entrenched on their memory. “Learning through play” is a well documented and researched teaching philosophy which we aim to utilise to benefit our children's Islamic upbringing. As well as Islamic activities, this holidays we aimed to step up a gear, introducing an integrated curriculum which spanned “Islamic” and “secular” learning. This as we know all knowledge comes from Allah. Islam is not separate from the We learnt about the status of parents in every day world, and we aimed to demonstrate this to the children Islam, and we made cards for our mums. We also talked about we teach and help them develop their natural curiosity for learning, rhyming words and poetic devices, and wrote poetry about our and critical thinking, by showing them that subjects do not always mothers. have to be compartmentalised in to “deen “ and “dunya”. Here are some of the things we did over the past two weeks:
We learnt about Angels, their names and duties. As we know angels control the weather, we then made kites, talked about how to measure the weather and learnt the dua for strong winds.
The children learnt about tawheed, and how Allah is without need, and they made posters, to let others know about this!
We learnt about the first revelation, and how the first command sent in the Quran was “iqra”. We then used stencils to make Iqra artwork We learnt about Allah as Al Khaliq, and the sings of Allah being all And learnt how tom make tissue paper flowers. around us. We then made collages of the beauty in Allah’s Creation. After this we learnt about the life cycle and plants of a part as a demonstration of the perfection of Allah’s creation.
InshaAllah we will be continuing Creative Deen workshops in the half We learnt about how animals also worship Allah. We studied spiders term, and also have plans to offer workshops for homeschooling and made spiders webs, told the story of the elephants, and the spichildren. der from The Seerah, and we practiced Surah Fil.
VE DEEN
ND VALUES THROUGH ARTS AND ACTIVITIES
Marvellous Minibeasts
Many of Allah’s signs all around us are unmissable, such as the stars, the sun and the mountains. Other signs are smaller, but when you look closer are just as astonishing! Let’s take a closer look at one of these – minibeasts.
with its silk. When it spots prey, it swings out a line with a sticky glob at the end and that sticks to the wings or body of their next meal. The silk can also be used for egg sacs, to form shelters and to help the spiders travel.
Spider’s silk is 5 times stronger than steel of the same thickness! It is the
Spiders help the environment by eating lots of insects that would otherwise be around in your garden and homes.
Scientists have found fossilized spiders trapped in amber in that are around
Spectacular Spiders
Fantastic Facts Spiders belong to the arachnid family. This means they have 2 body segments, eight legs, and their skeleton is on the outside. Most spiders spin webs to catch food. Even though they can have up to 8 eyes their eyesight is not that good. So when an insect gets caught in the web they sense the vibrations with the tiny hairs on their legs, to lead them to their prey. Then they wrap the prey in silk to stop it struggling or getting away! Spiders also don’t have any teeth, so they can’t chew or swallow. Instead they have poison fangs that they use to inject their victims with venom. This turns the target’s insides in to liquid that the spiders then suck up! Eugh! There is no need to worry; this poison doesn’t work on humans. Most spider venom is too weak to hurt people. However some spiders, such as the Black Widow have strong venom that can kill people if bites are left untreated! Spider’s silk is very special and is used for many different jobs. The Bolas spider fishes
Crab spiders can change colour in order to camouflage themselves. This allows them to sneak up on unexpecting prey without being spotted! The Madagascan Darwin’s Bark Spider can make webs which are 25m wide and stretch across rivers! No one knows how they manage this! Larger spiders can catch animals as large as bats, mice, fish, birds and even snakes with their strong webs.
strongest material in the world. Scientists haven’t been able to recreate this design even with all the technology we have today!
2 million years old! Spiders In The Quran - The name of the Surah Al Ankubat, means “The Spider”. In this Surah Allah SWT says “The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of the spider, who builds (to itself) a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider’s house;- if they but knew.” (29:41) This means that protection from anything other than Allah is like a spider’s web, which can easily be broken. Spiders in Hadith - When the Prophet SAW and Abu Bakr RA were making hijrah from Mecca to Madinah, a spider made a web on the entrance of the cave in which they were hiding to fool the bounty hunters that were searching for the Prophet SAW. The bounty hunters saw the web and thought that nobody could have got inside without disturbing the web, so they left without searching the cave. Even spiders recognise Allah as their Lord and Muhammad SAW as the last and final messenger!
UPCOMING
At Newham Islamic Le
G EVENTS
earning Centre
Knitter natter—Learn a new skill and knit blankets for Syria, weekly starting Thursday 12th September 10 am—12pm Muslimah Directions Halaqa— Empowering local Muslim women by sharing knowledge and providing, support, encouragement and friendship, in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Using Islamic reminders, and examples that we can implement in our every day lives. Fortnightly starting wed 4th sept, 1pm—3pm
Mother and toddler groups—A chance to meet other Muslim families, and share experiences, weekly starting Tuesday 17th September 1pm—3pm
Little Ilford Park FC—Saturdays at 11:30 am, Little Ilford Park
Syria Fundraiser—Sept 21st, 2pm
Also: (dates tbc)
Nour Domestic Violence awareness sessions, and advice drop in sessions. Quran recitation competition
Other intitiatives:
Collecting clothing, and food for the homeless and needy. Collecting clothing to sell in order to raise money for Syria Collecting medicines to take to Syria Raising towards an NILC ambulance travelling to Syria with the Human Aid convoy in December. Family support, advice and guidance.
Our doors are always open. Please get in touch if you are in need, emotionally, physically or spiritually and we will do our best to help you for the sake of Allah.
Newham Islamic Learning Centre exists to support the
Newham Islamic Learning Centre
community we live in. We aim to build the believers, mind, body and soul through out numerous community
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initiatives. We want the children and families in our community to be able to contribute positively to the areas we live in.
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