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The Journey of Patience: Hilwaa’s BeeZie workbook

One of our first take-home workbooks, on the journey of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) with al-Khidr in Surah Al-Kahf, as Hilwaa filled it in.

BeeZie Workbooks were one of our first printables. We printed them for families to take home, and each one stood on its own: a parent could work through it with a child, or a child could try it alone. This one, The Journey of Patience, is about Surah Al-Kahf. This copy was filled in by Hilwaa.

The cover of The Journey of Patience, a BeeZie Workbook, with a sailing boat and Hilwaa's name as the storyteller
The cover of The Journey of Patience, a BeeZie Workbook, with a sailing boat and Hilwaa's name as the storyteller

The workbook follows the journey of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) with al-Khidr, told in Surah Al-Kahf. Muslims are encouraged to read this surah every Friday, so we wanted children to meet its stories early, and to know some of the themes behind them.

Eight activities, one story

Each activity takes a piece of the story and works on one skill. Activity 1 is three missions: find which chapter of the Quran Surah Al-Kahf is, find out whether it was revealed in Makkah or Madinah, and name the person who knew more than Prophet Musa in his time. Hilwaa circled her answers.

Activity 1: three missions about Surah Al-Kahf, with Hilwaa's answers circled
Activity 1: three missions about Surah Al-Kahf, with Hilwaa's answers circled

Activity 2 asks the child to decorate a seashore with a ship and "patiently" paste or draw five seashells. Activity 3 takes the Arabic word for ship and asks the child to split it into its letters, one per box.

Activity 3: Hilwaa writes the letters of the Arabic word for ship, one in each box
Activity 3: Hilwaa writes the letters of the Arabic word for ship, one in each box

Activity 4 retells the story in five sentences, and the child finds the opposite of the word in bold.

Activity 4: finding opposites in sentences that retell the story of Prophet Musa and al-Khidr
Activity 4: finding opposites in sentences that retell the story of Prophet Musa and al-Khidr

The fish in the story leads to two science pages. In Activity 5 the child traces the names of the parts of a fish. Activity 6 sends the child to find out how freshwater fish and saltwater fish differ. Activity 7 is a dua from the Quran to read and learn, and Activity 8 asks the child to talk about the story, then write or draw at least one lesson from it.

Activity 5: Hilwaa traced the names of the parts of a fish
Activity 5: Hilwaa traced the names of the parts of a fish

Some pages in Hilwaa's copy are still blank, such as the seashore and the moral-of-the-story box.

Notes for parents

At the back is a page for parents and educators. It names the main message of the story as being patient when seeking knowledge, and suggests talking about the manners of a learner and the habits that help us learn well. Its example is Prophet Musa keeping on until he found al-Khidr to be his teacher.

The notes for parents and educators at the back of the workbook
The notes for parents and educators at the back of the workbook

Before Investigate

The logo on the cover reads "inspire . integrate . impart". That was our 3-I. Investigate was added later, and it became the 4-I we use now. You can already see the habit in this workbook, on the pages that send a child off to find something out.

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