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Recited. Finished. Never explained.
Most of us learned it the same way. Letters. Then sounds. Then whole surahs by heart, as fast as we could go. A certificate. A khatm party. Then the mushaf went back on the shelf, and for a lot of us it stayed there.
Nobody told us the stories. Not the mightiest army of its time, beaten by birds carrying stones of baked clay. Not the young men who slept in a cave for 309 years. Not Yusuf at the bottom of the well. We could say every word, and we couldn't tell you what happened in a single one of them.
One 13-year-old, who finished the whole Quran at eight, wrote this in a public YouTube comment: "I knew how to read it but didn't understand a word." A few lines later: "I think I had begun to hate Deen."
Your child is on the same track right now. Fast. Fluent. Finished. And the day they ask you what Al-Fil is about, you'll hear yourself say "ask your teacher".
That silence doesn't stay empty. Every night something else explains the world to them: the phone, their friends, the feed. If the Quran is only ever sounds, it loses that fight without a single argument.
It was never your fault. You were handed the method your parents were handed, by people who were handed it too. But it can stop with you.
A father called Nabil Adam watched it happen in his own home. His children recited beautifully, and when he asked them what they had just read, in his words on page 2, "they would look up at me with blank eyes. Not because they were not trying. But because no one had ever shown them a bridge between the Arabic words they were memorising and the living, breathing stories those words contained."
He looked for a book that walked a child through the whole Quran and couldn't find one. So he made it. "I am not a scholar," he wrote. "I am a father."
The Illustrated Quran is that bridge. A painting to point at. The key stories in a few short lines. The surah and verse printed with them, so you can open your mushaf and check. And one question that hands the conversation to your child.
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SWIPEReal pages: the Army of the Elephant (page 119) and the Sleepers of the Cave (page 59)
The 60-second check
Verse 1 of Surah Al-Fil is a question from Allah: "Did you not see what your Lord did to the companions of the elephant?"
Most Muslim children have said that question hundreds of times. In salah. In Quran class. At the end-of-year recital. Almost none of them could tell you the answer.
Allah told us why He sent the Quran down in Arabic: "so that you might understand" (Yusuf 12:2). Understanding was the point from the very start.
Don't take our word for it. Ask yours three things tonight:
1. In Al-Fil, what did the army bring, and what did Allah send against it?
2. In Al-Kahf, how long did the young men sleep in the cave?
3. Who threw Yusuf into the well?
If they answer all three, alhamdulillah. Someone already gave them the stories.
If they go quiet, you've just seen the gap with your own eyes. It isn't their fault. Nobody ever handed them the story. Every answer is printed in The Illustrated Quran, on pages 119, 59 and 47.
Every answer is in the book
How it works
No lesson plan. No Arabic needed from you. Everything is already on the page.
1They point at the painting first. Let them tell you what they see before you read a word.
2The key stories in a few short lines, with the surah and verse printed right there.
3The Reflect & Discuss question is already written. You never have to think of one on the spot.
4Their own words go in the journal pages at the back. Watch them fill up, part by part.
Before you buy any Quran stories book
A lot of Quran story books are 20 famous stories and some nice pictures. Open one and look for a surah and verse you can check a story against, or the name of a scholar who reviewed it. Before you buy any of them, check these five things. The Illustrated Quran was made to pass every one.
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Checked, not guessed
You should never have to wonder whether what you're reading to your child is right. Every page of The Illustrated Quran was reviewed and approved by Dr. Ahmad B. Asad, Islamic scholar and educator. His name is on the cover.
In his words, printed on page 1: "This illustrated companion presents the stories and themes of the Quran in a manner that is accessible, respectful, and educationally sound."
And you never have to take anyone's word for it. The surah and verse are printed with the stories, so you can open your mushaf and read them together.
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Included with every order
Every order includes a free first month of the MyTarbiya Journey app. Short picture-story stages built on the book, a quick quiz, then one question your child answers out loud. They record it. You hear it.
A new part of the Quran unlocks every Friday, so there is always a reason to come back.
Free for the first month with every order
Free with the bundles
Sent to your email, ready to print, so you can start before the books arrive.
BUY 2, GET 1 FREE30 printable cards, one for every part of the Quran. Each one sends your child back to a story in the book with a question, a talking point and a small challenge.
Print them once. After each night's reading, your child picks that part's card and takes the challenge.
BUY 3, GET 2 FREEOne short reading activity a day for 30 days, each linked to a page of the book, with a family tracker to tick off as you go.
Stick the tracker on the fridge. One task a day, five to ten minutes, until you've walked through the whole Quran's stories together.
Buy 2, Get 1 FREE adds free delivery and the Story Cards. Buy 3, Get 2 FREE unlocks everything.
Launch price ends when the timer runs out
Before you decide
You already know what's on these pages. The only question now is who else gets to read them.
Start with your own home. Then think about the homes where the same thing is happening right now. Your sister, whose kids just started learning to read the Quran. The grandparents, who'd read it with them every weekend. The friend whose children sit next to yours in Quran class, reciting the same surahs and missing the same stories.
The Prophet ﷺ said that when a person dies, their deeds come to an end except for three, and one of them is knowledge that benefits (Sahih Muslim 1631). Think about where that reward goes every time a child you gave this to finally understands a verse they've recited for years.
You can't sit down and explain the Quran to every one of them. You can hand them the book. And the more you give, the less each one costs: £39.99 for one. £26.66 a book when you buy 2 and get 1 free. £23.99 a book when you buy 3 and get 2 free.
Run the numbers. One book comes to £44.98 with delivery. Three come to £79.98, delivered free. Two more homes for £35.
Pick your bundle above. The more you give, the less each one costs.
The complete contents
Every part of the Quran, in order, from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas. Each one opens with a full painting, then the key stories, the people in them, a Did You Know and a question to talk about. Here is one story from each.
Plus a map, a glossary and journal pages
Still have questions?
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No, and that's the point. A translation hands a child 6,236 verses and no way in. This gives them the stories and lessons of every part of the Quran in plain English, with the surah and verse printed with the stories, so you can open your mushaf and read the full verses together.
No. Keep the recitation and the teacher. This gives your child the meaning of what they already recite, at home, in about 10 minutes a night.
Younger children (around 4 to 8) look at the paintings and listen while you read the short stories. Confident readers (around 9 and up), teens and adults read it alone and use the journal pages. Look at the real pages in the photos above to check the reading level.
Yes. That's who it was made for. The story, the surah and verse, and the question are already on the page, so you learn alongside your child without preparing anything.
Yes. Every page was reviewed and approved by Islamic scholar and educator Dr. Ahmad B. Asad, whose name is on the cover. The surah and verse are printed with the stories, so you can look up the original passage yourself.
No. Not one prophet's face, anywhere in the book. The paintings show the places and the moments of each story, so you can put it in your child's hands without a second thought.
138 pages. Every part of the Quran opens with a full painting, then its key stories, the people in them, a Did You Know and a Reflect & Discuss question. At the back there's a map of the Prophets' lands, the Five Pillars, a glossary and journal pages. Paperback, 7.44 × 9.68 in. No faces of the prophets anywhere.
The books are identical. 1 book is £39.99 plus £4.99 delivery. Buy 2, Get 1 FREE is 3 books for £79.98 (£26.66 a book) with free delivery and the 30 Story Challenge Cards. Buy 3, Get 2 FREE is 5 books for £119.97 (£23.99 a book) with free delivery and every gift. Once delivery is counted, going from 1 book to 3 costs £35 more. Keep one at home and give the rest to the people you love.
Free delivery is applied at checkout on 3 or more books. The 30 Story Challenge Cards (3 or more books) and the 30-Day Family Quran Challenge (5 books) are printable PDFs, sent to your email after you order.
Every order includes the MyTarbiya Journey app free for the first month. The date your free month ends is shown next to the button above and at checkout. After that it's £19.99 a month unless you cancel, which you can do any time before then. Don't want it? Untick it above. The books are yours to keep either way.
Read it with them for 30 days. Writing in it is fine. If your child can't tell you stories from the Quran they couldn't tell you before, email support@mytarbiya.com within 30 days of delivery and send it back for a refund of what you paid. Not right for any other reason? Same promise. Returns policy.
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