As if you see him - Part 1

🍡 It's As If You See Him, Part One 🍡

🍡 Dar Shireen 🍡

🌿 Honestly, I was going to write a review about it after reading it, but I found a review that I couldn't add a single word to 😍 The review is by the distinguished Siham Obaid, owner of the blog @homeschool.garden

🌿 I'll leave you with the valuable review 🥰

185 pages of beauty and creativity.. May Allah bless it, indeed! 😍

A very valuable addition to a child's library on the topic of teaching the Beautiful Names of Allah to young children.

A story with sequential events in which the boy (Mudhesh) and his friend (Mahmoud) embark on an exciting adventure to get to know the superhero (Fawwazan) up close, whose fame has spread everywhere.

They go to the forest where the hero (Fawwazan) lives in a small hut atop a large tree. They meet him and ask him about the secret of his amazing power. He then takes them on a journey into the forest to explore it and tell them the secret.

In every situation, they learn that this superhero is not as they imagined; rather, he is an ordinary person who cannot fly or lift heavy objects alone. However, they continue the adventure hoping to discover the secret.

During the journey, and through the situations they encounter, Fawwazan teaches them a new Name of Allah and explains its meaning to them, giving them examples.

They meet many forest animals, encounter some problems, search for the secret of Fawwazan's strength, and make some mistakes. The story ends with Mahmoud disappearing from the hut where Fawwazan lives, with a promise to complete the story in a future part of the book.

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🌿 Through the events of the story, we learn the meanings of Allah's Names (The Creator - The Maker - The Fashioner - The Eternal - The Most Strong - The Firm - The Subtle - The All-Seeing).

🌿 An explanation of each of the Beautiful Names of Allah and its implicit meanings, and practical application of how to supplicate with it and worship Allah according to its meaning.

🌿 Beautiful poetic verses after each name that extensively explain the meaning of the name, and are provided with a code to listen to them as a song.

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The two little girls were attracted to the book as soon as it arrived, and I was at my father's house when it arrived, so my father looked at it, flipped through it, read some of the poetic verses, and praised it ❤️

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🎨 Book Illustrations:

Very beautiful and wonderful, some of them look like real pictures, like a shot of a forest scene and the sky at night.

The artist, Shurooq Bishnaq, truly possesses a distinctive and unique brush, and her own special style that you recognize without reading her name.

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An important addition given the issue that arose for some due to the mention of the superhero concept:

The story here rephrases the concept of the superhero and superhuman strength... and mentions that (Fawwazan is just a human), but the children were not convinced of that after some people told them so, so they went to search for themselves and verify.

When they met Fawwazan... (the superhero in their eyes because he climbs mountains and helps the needy and the poor)... they learned from him that:

- The superhero is he who offers help to the weak, no matter how simple that help is, and does not show arrogance towards creation (the concept of "Allah helps His servant as long as the servant helps his brother").

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- The superhero is he who maintains prayer on time (Fawwazan in the story stopped them to pray several times so they wouldn't miss it).

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- The superhero is he who seeks help from Allah and turns to Him in times of hardship (more than one situation during the story's events in which Fawwazan sought help from Allah Almighty in everything that befell them, and sincerely supplicated to Him and turned to Him, and taught the children that through the meaning of Allah's Name, The Eternal).

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- The superhero is he who reflects on the creation of the heavens and the earth and acknowledges that Allah Almighty is the Creator of this vast universe and all its creatures (and this is what Fawwazan taught the children when he took them on a tour of the forest to contemplate its creatures and sleep at night to contemplate the sky and stars, and taught them Allah's Names, The Creator, The Maker, The Fashioner, and explained their meanings).

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- The superhero is he who acknowledges the inability of all creatures to help him and turns to Allah alone (as he taught them with the little elephant when they fell into a pit during the adventure).

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- The superhero is he who acknowledges his weakness and need for help and is not ashamed to admit it or ask for help from his friends (a believer to another believer is like a structure, each part strengthening the other), and this is what happened with Fawwazan, who decided to ask for help from the friends in the forest to save the little elephant, and told the children that he is weak and Allah alone grants him health and strength because He is The Most Strong, and Allah is the One who provides sustenance, and we do not provide it for ourselves because He is The Provider, The Possessor of Strength, The Firm.

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** So the story negates the concept of superhuman strength in its meaning and widespread depiction in mythical stories and cartoon films.

And it reshapes awareness, the idea, the concept, and the meaning that a person, through their acts of worship, their turning to Allah Almighty, their need for Him, and their acknowledgment that they are weak and Allah is strong, and that they are poor and Allah is rich... such a person, who may be seen by some as (just a human), is a superhero.

This is the idea to be conveyed >> negating the concept of superhuman strength in its fictional meaning, and proving that a person, through their good deeds and servitude to Allah, is who should be regarded as a hero.

🌿 Number of pages: 185

🌿 Dimensions: 24*23

🌿 Weight: 900 gr