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SUMMARY
P
BY THE END OF THIS LESSON THE CHILD HAS :
(
tick in box if completed
)
- listened to an extract
- learnt a new
Ayah
and
Hadith
- found suitable meanings for difficult words
- identified the teachings of the story
- drew a picture
- completed a list of sentences
- completed a word search
- did a picture puzzle
- completed a true & false exercise
How does my teacher
rate my performance in this lesson ?
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AN IMPORTANT
POINT TO
DISCUSS
Evil and virtue as an entity transcend physical
matter and sense perception, and therefore it
would be futile to pursue any empirical analysis of the inci-
dent of the ‘Opening of the Prophet’s [s] Chest’ since it
would stand beyond our capacity to do so.
There is one important point though which we can appreci-
ate from the many prophetic traditions describing the event,
namely that providence did not leave an outstanding
human being like Muhammad [s] susceptible to the subtle
whisperings and insinuations of satan which cause confu-
sion and often lead men astray.
It cannot be denied that there are negative forces which
pervade our surroundings and hearts are often quick to
absorb these forces or at least be swayed by them. The
hearts of the Prophets, on the contrary, are not effected in
the least by these currents, by virtue of Divine providence.
Thus the efforts of the prophets are ever directed towards
constant spiritual progression and not resistance to evil;
towards purifying the people from evil, not self-purification.
This is possible since Allah has already cleansed them of
all spiritual inadequacies and pollution as evinced by the
incident of the ‘Opening of the Prophet’s [s] Chest’.
PT
