Start with bismillah.

Pour muddy water through a coffee filter or cloth. Ask: "How did it get cleaner?"

Watch The Nature Conservancy's video "How Nature Makes Clean Water".

Now listen to the ayah together in the app, with the translation. Ask: "Who drinks from this spring?"

Each child keeps one wonder question, for example: "How can I be one of those brought near?" Younger children can draw theirs.

Find it in the mushaf: Surah Al-Mutaffifin is surah 83. Find ayah 28. The key word al-muqarrabun appears again (look back at ayah 21). Those brought near to Allah drink straight from Tasnim.

Fact: How do forests and soil help to clean water?

Ages 5–8: Filter test. Make a filter in a cut plastic bottle with cotton wool, sand and gravel. Pour muddy water through. What comes out?

Ages 9–12: Water journey. Find out how rainwater is cleaned on its way through the ground to a spring.

Finish with: "I found that soil and sand clean water by ___."

Talk together:

• What does it mean to be "brought near" to Allah?
• Which name of Allah does this remind you of?
• What deeds bring us nearer to Allah?
• How is a clean heart like clean water?
• How do you feel close to Allah?

Make a small plan: "This week, I will do one deed that brings me nearer to Allah: ___."

• Show someone your water filter (don't drink the water!).
• Thank Allah for clean water at every meal.
• Next time: the next ayah (83:29) is about people who laughed at believers. Explore it together!

Action: Do your "nearer to Allah" deed.