The Holy Books in Islam

Our next article was the holy books, so understanding Allah sent revelation/divine scriptures to some of His prophets and being able to name the four mentioned in the Quran. If they could remember which book was sent to which prophet, that would be a bonus at this stage!

First, we recapped who the prophets were, i.e. messengers from Allah to teach people how to behave, guide them away from wrong and towards good deeds instead. I asked them to name me a couple of prophets then I explained to them that there are two different Arabic words for the prophets in Islam:

Nabi (نَبِي) = prophet
Rasool (رَسُول) = messenger

So all the prophets are nabi but only some of them are rasool... I didn't expect them to remember this at this age, it was just a precursor to the point: so Muhammad (SAW) was both a nabi and a rasool. He was a nabi because he's a prophet and he's a rasool because he was given which book as a message? The Quran!

There are 3 other holy books mentioned in the Quran: the tawraat, the zabur and the injeel; these were given to the prophets Musa (AS), Dawud (AS) and 'Eesa (AS) respectively. So were these three prophets rasool as well? Yes!

The activity was a simple cut, stick and colour to consolidate this new information.

You can download the worksheet here.