Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Gaza- Displaced Palestinian families in the city of Rafah (the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt) encourage their children to attend religious circles to learn the Holy Qur’an, listen to sermons that promote the values of patience and morals, and teach them the pillars of Islam and faith.
In a solemn scene, male and female children gather Inside a tent set up in a school yard in the Al-Jeneina neighborhood in the city of Rafah, housing displaced people – the majority of whom are from the northern Gaza Strip – they recite the Holy Qur’an, learn the religious duties and Sunnahs, and interact with religious lessons from young preachers who volunteered to tour the shelter centers spread throughout the city, with the aim of spreading reassurance in the souls of the displaced – especially children. – In light of a fierce and escalating Israeli war in its fourth month in a row.
A tent was overflowing with children, and many of them did not find room to fit inside it and were forced to stand in front of it and around it, interacting with the two young sheikhs Mahmoud Madi and Alaa Sheikh Eid, who were keen to create an atmosphere of humor and give motivational prizes, to encourage the children and connect them with this “Da’wah tent.”
Cultivate the value of patience
In his sermon in front of a large crowd of children, Sheikh Alaa focused on the value of patience in the life of a Muslim person, citing positions from the Prophet’s biography. He told Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “Religion is the gateway to patience in the face of afflictions, and the tragedies and pains we are experiencing now as a result of war and siege require each of us to get closer.” To God through prayer, patience and supplication.”
Sheikh Mahmoud adds to Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “The goal of this initiative is to spread reassurance in the souls of hundreds of thousands of displaced people – including large numbers of children – who were forced by the Israeli war to be displaced, abandon their homes, and seek refuge in the city of Rafah.”
Sheikh Mahmoud is responsible for teaching children the correct recitation of the Holy Qur’an, encouraging them to memorize it and constantly reading it, in addition to telling stories from Islamic history that deal with the bright milestones of the Companions and Followers, which contribute to strengthening the patience and steadfastness of these children and supporting them psychologically in light of the crimes of murder and destruction they experience daily, committed by the occupation army. Israeli.
Specific and alternative for children
In turn, the child Anas Abu Shanab (12 years old) told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that he is impatiently awaiting the arrival of Sheikhs Mahmoud and Alaa to the tent, to learn from them the provisions of the Holy Qur’an and its recitation, and to listen to religious sermons and the biography of the Prophet – may God bless him and grant him peace – and his companions.
Anas was displaced with his family members several times from their home in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, to Al-Jalaa Street in the city, before they were forced to flee to the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and from there to the city of Rafah after the severity of Israeli crimes intensified with the occupation army’s land incursion.
Anas was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli missile in his stomach and leg when he happened to be at a site targeted by an Israeli warplane in the city of Khan Yunis. About that, he told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that he forgets the war and its pains when he learns the Qur’an and listens to religious sermons.
Since the beginning of the aggression on October 7, the occupation army has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians, including 9,730 children, while the percentage of missing children reached 70% out of about 7,000 missing persons, in addition to wounding tens of thousands of them and displacing hundreds of thousands of others.
