Class 1 - Stories Life Skills
Life skill: Nurturing Relationship
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Life Skill: Self Esteem
Explanation of life skills
Self-esteem is your subjective sense of overall personal worth or value. Like self-respect, it describes your confidence level in your abilities and attributes.
AL QURAN
Surah Taha:25
“O my Lord, open up my chest and untie my tongue and make easy for me my affairs and make my speech understood.”
HADITH
Bukhari, Muslim
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said,
“None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”
This hadith assumes that we love ourselves.
(Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ahmad)
Once, the Prophet (PBUH) saw a man with unkempt hair and remarked, “Does he have nothing with which to comb his hair?” Upon seeing another man with dirty clothes, he asked, “Cannot he find anything to wash his clothes?”
IQBAL
خودی وہ بحر ہے جس کا کوئی کنارہ نہیں
تو آب جو اسے سمجھا اگر تو چارہ نہیں
Life Skill: Character Building
Explanation of life skills
Character building means learning the value, following all those moral values Islam has focused on, and avoiding all those traits Islam determines as unpleasant. The ethical system of Islam enables an individual to distinguish between right and wrong and live his life accordingly.
AL QURAN
(Surah Al-Ahzab:21)
“Certainly, is for you in (the) Messenger (of) Allah an excellent example for (one) who has hope (in) Allah and the Day the Last, and remembers Allah much.”
HADITH
Sahih al-Bukhari 3559
Abu Hurayrah said that the Prophet of Allah (PBUH) said, “If one has good manners, one may attain the same merit as those who spend their nights in prayer.”
IQBAL
وہی ہے صاحب امروز جس نے اپنی ہمت سے
زمانے کے سمندر سے نکالا گوہر فردا
Life skill: Problem Solving
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Life skill: Healthy Lifestyle Choices
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Life skill: Managing Feelings
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Life Skill: Character Building
Explanation of life skills
Character building means learning the value, following all those moral values Islam has focused on, and avoiding all those traits Islam determines as unpleasant. The ethical system of Islam enables an individual to distinguish between right and wrong and live his life accordingly.
AL QURAN
(Surah Al-Ahzab:21)
“Certainly, is for you in (the) Messenger (of) Allah an excellent example for (one) who has hope (in) Allah and the Day the Last, and remembers Allah much.”
HADITH
Sahih al-Bukhari 3559
Abu Hurayrah said that the Prophet of Allah (PBUH) said, “If one has good manners, one may attain the same merit as those who spend their nights in prayer.”
IQBAL
Life Skill: Critical Thinking
Explanation of life skills
Critical thinking happens when children draw on their existing knowledge and experience, as well as on their problem-solving skills, to do things like:
- Compare and contrast
- Explain why things happen
- Evaluate ideas and form opinions
- Understand the perspectives of others
- Predict what will happen in the future
- Think of creative solutions
AL QURAN
Surah Al A’raf: 185
Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that Allah has created and (think) that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So in what statement hereafter will they believe?
AL Hujurat: 49
O believers, if an evildoer brings you any news, verify ˹it˺, so you do not harm people unknowingly, becoming regretful for what you have done.
HADITH
Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 1327, Grade: Sahih
A particular Hadith often comes up in these discussions about critical thinking. When the Prophet Muhammad was sending Muadh Ibn Jabal to Yemen, the Prophet asked the companion how he was going to make decisions as per the creed [questions from the Prophet are in bold]:
- How will you judge?
- Mu’adh said, “I will judge according to what is in the Book of Allah.” The Prophet said:
- What if it is not in the Book of Allah?
- Mu’adh said, “Then with the tradition (sunnah) of the Messenger of Allah.” The Prophet said:
- What if it is not in the tradition of the Messenger of Allah?
- Mu’adh said, “Then I will strive to form an opinion (ijtihad).”
- Abu Hurayrah said, “I heard Abu al Qasim (the Prophet), upon him be peace, say, ‘The best among you in Islam are those with the best manners, so long as they develop a sense of understanding.”
IQBAL
یورپ میں بہت روشنئ علم ہنر ہے
حق یہ ہے کہ بے چشمۂ حیواں ہے یہ ظلمات
Life skill: Sharing
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