وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
How to read it
Wa mā 'ad'rāka mā yaw'mu ddīni
And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
Wa mā 'ad'rāka mā yaw'mu ddīni
And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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Allah asks: what will make you understand what the Day of Judgement is?
Start with bismillah.
Ask: "What do you think lives at the very bottom of the ocean, where no light reaches?"
Watch NOAA Ocean Exploration's short "Deep-Sea Symphony".
Now listen to the ayah together in the app, with the translation. Ask: "What question does Allah ask?"
Each child keeps one wonder question, for example: "Why can't we fully understand that Day?" Younger children can draw theirs.
Find it in the mushaf: Surah Al-Infitar is surah 82. Find ayah 17. The question wa ma adraka comes again. The Day of Judgement is greater than anything we can understand, like the deep sea, which people have hardly explored.
Fact: How much of the deep ocean has been explored?
Ages 5–8: Mystery box. Put an object in a box. Let others feel it without looking and guess. Some things we can only know when they are shown to us.
Ages 9–12: Deep discoveries. Find two strange creatures discovered in the deep sea in the last few years.
Finish with: "I found that people have explored about ___ of the deep ocean."

Talk together:
Make a small plan: "This week, I will learn one thing the Quran tells us about the Day of Judgement."
Action: Learn one thing the Quran tells us about the Day of Judgement.
