Importance Of Calligraphy Essay

Teaching approaches to the Qu’ran.

Look at some examples of Arabic writing. It is quite permissible for children to experiment with this writing, and it enables them to appreciate the beauty of calligraphy. Calligraphy in Islam is not simply decoration. The three forms of Islamic art, geometrical design, free-flowing floral arabesque and calligraphy are designed to free the mind to focus on Allah as the source of pattern, order and truth in creation.

Ask children to share anything they know by heart or to learn something by heart. How useful is it to learn in this way?

Are there any maxims that they use every day? Would it be helpful to create some? One that I have shared with children was given to me by my husband. It was to remember every

In your garden you can make it daytime or nightime,

Summertime or Wintertime.

In this garden you can put any trees, any plants, any animals.

This is your garden; it is a perfect garden.

In this garden you can put any people you want.

You can put your friends, your brothers and sisters and your Mum and Dad.

You can put people from all over the world,

Singers from the radio, actors from the television,

Sportsmen or women.

Perhaps a person you have always wanted to meet or a person who has died.

This is your garden, this is a perfect garden.

How do you want these people to behave?

How should they treat each other?

How should they treat the garden?

You can make the rules, this is your garden.

This garden is perfect.

(It might be possible, at this point, to take ‘feedback’ from the audience, of the gardens they have imagined. Conclude with this Muslim prayer and reading from the Qu’ran on light. The Qu’ran 24.35. (interpreted by A.J. Arberry.) Children might bring small lighted candles to be placed on a table with floral arrangements, as the words are spoken.

O God grant me light in my heart and light on my tongue. Light in my hearing and light in my seeing.

Light in my flesh, light in my blood, and light in my