Start with bismillah.

Ask: "How do you keep hoping when things look bad?"

Play the short clip from Qatami clips of Nasser Al-Qatami reciting ayat 80–87 of Yusuf.

Now listen to the ayah together in the app, with the translation. Ask: "What did Ya'qub hope Allah would do?"

Each child keeps one wonder question, for example: "How could Ya'qub still hope after so long?" Younger children can draw theirs.

Find it in the mushaf: Surah Yusuf is surah 12. Find ayah 83. Again Ya'qub chose beautiful patience, and he added hope: perhaps Allah will bring them all back, Yusuf, Binyamin and the eldest. Patience and hope go together.

Fact: Find 'sabrun jamil' in this ayah and in 12:18. What happened in each?

Ages 5–8: Hope and patience. Draw a seed (patience) and a flower (hope).

Ages 9–12: Never lose hope. Write how patience and hope work together.

Finish with: "Both 12:18 and 12:83 say ___."

Talk together:

• What did Ya'qub choose?
• Which name of Allah does this remind you of?
• How do patience and hope go together?
• What are you hoping for?

Make a small plan: "This week, I will make du'a with hope for something I want."

• Patience and hope.
• Draw seed and flower.
• Share your writing.
• Next time: the next ayah (12:84) shows Ya'qub's grief. Explore it together!

Action: Make du'a with hope for something you want.