On Sunday 14 February the Secondary students at Muhammadi Madrasah took part in their first Value Day of 2016.

The theme of this Value Day was sustainability and caring for the environment.

With the help of the Sustainability subcommittee of the Jamaat students were initially given a short talk on the importance of thinking about the environment after which they were split into groups and given the task of developing solutions to 6 common problems we face within our community:

1. Carbon footprint from cars driving to mosque
2. Food waste created by mosque, including organic waste e.g. potato peels  
3. Use of disposable cups, plates and cutlery throughout the year 
4. Water usage 
5. Keeping buildings warm
6. Use of electricity
7. Protecting plant and animal life i.e. trees, bees, birds etc 
8. Thinking greener as a community

Students had 1 hour to come up with a solution and then had to present to a panel of judges that included Abdullah Rahman, CEO of The Balsall Heath Forum, EC member Tawfiq Jivraj, teacher Kazim Sajan, Sis Nikhat Panjwani, Sis Shakira Fazal and Br Irfan Jiwa.

Qur'an Resources^alpha

Introduction

وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًا

"And the Messenger has said: 'O my Lord, indeed my people have treated this Quran as a forsaken thing'." (25:30)

Qur'an teaching in the Muhammadi Madrasah is centred around four linked disciplines:

• Qira'at - Recitation
  [insert text]
  
  
• Hifdh - Memorisation
  Sura al-Fateha, chapters from the 30^th chapter, passages such as Ayat al-Kursi, Ayat al-Mulk, Ayat as-Shahadah, etc. [insert complete text].
  
  
• Tafsir - Commentary
  [insert text]
  
  
• 'Ulum al-Qur'an - Qur'anic Sciences
  Theory of scriptural revelation, history of the Qur'anic revelation, the transcription and recording of the Qur'an, abrogation of verses.

Resources
We have gathered together a selection of Qur'an resources for teachers, parents and students to use. Resources from outside the Shi'a Ja'fari school are marked (~) and those which require payment are marked (£).

• Qur'an Explorer - listen to Qur'an from more than a dozen reciters, with translations in several languages (including audio translations).
  
  
• Quran.com - line by line Qur'an translation and recitation.
  
  
• QuranTracker.com (£) - QuranTracker has various features to help you learn the Quran and manage memorising new portions of the Quran as well as revising what you have learned.
  
  
• The Qur'anic Arabic Corpus - An annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran.
  
  
• al-Islam.org Qur'an - Multilingual Qur'an with commentaries from Mahdi Pooya and M. A. Ali in English.
  
  
• AhlulBayt TV On Demand - Video resources from the global Shi'a channel AhlulBayt TV.
  
  
• Bayyinah Institute (~ £) - Video courses from Nouman Ali-Khan on Qur'anic Arabic and Tafsir.
  
  
• [insert further resources]