OK, so this is the fifth lesson in my series on piano for complete beginners.
In lesson four we learned some useful stuff about how we notate things that usually happen
in the left hand, using the bass clef.
We also learned about the C major scale, and right at the end of that lesson we were starting
to play that scale with two hands together.
Now in today's tutorial we're going to drag all of that stuff together and put it
into practice with two short pieces of music for two hands.
OK, let's go.
So what you need to do either now or when you've watched the tutorial once through
is download the accompanying PDF that you'll find linked in the description text underneath
this video.
It contains the written music – the scores, to use the technical term – for two short
pieces of music.
Now this lesson we're going to do pretty much nothing else except learning the first
of those two pieces, OK?
The second piece I'm going to kind of give you as a homework task.
In each piece I've introduced just, you know, just a couple of new ideas that we can
talk about as we go along.
OK, let's start looking at piece number one.
As you can probably see from a quick glance, there are some things in here we've seen
before and some things that are just a little bit new.
The new stuff is all to do with what we call the piece's dynamics, which is how loud
or soft we're playing at any given moment.
I'll talk about that in a second, but first let me play it through.
I'll play it through once with the score up in screen, and once in camera view like
this, so you can see my hands.
Second time through, when I'm playing in camera view, if you've already downloaded
the score you might like to follow along.
OK, let's just play it through once with the score up on the screen.
Here we go.
I'll take it fairly steadily but not too slowly.
OK, and let's do it again, and this time in camera view, so you might want to – when
you're learning it yourself – you might want to wheel back a few times and just watch
what I'm doing.
OK, here we go.
OK, so now we've had first sight of that score and we've heard what it sounds like,
and seen a little bit what it looks like to be played, let's just spend a few minutes
closely at what's going on.
So here we are with the score up on the screen.
Just ignore this green line here – that's the playhead in Sibelius, the application
that I'm using here.
That's got nothing to do with the score itself.
So let's just take a look at this thing.
Before we look at all this stuff with the dynamics, the louds and softs, let's just
check out that we understand everything that's going on here.
First off, something that you might not have seen before is this wiggly line here.
There's another one down here.
It's called a brace, OK, and it doesn't show that you need to do anything different
– it's just used to show that these two staves, OK, and these two staves down here,
are being played on the same instrument.
That might seem kind of superfluous – like, duh, you know, of course I'm playing them
on the same piano – but it can be kind of useful when a piano part is written as part
of a larger score, like in an orchestra, because it shows that both of these staves refer to
the same instrument, OK?
So the brace here is kind of a hangover from that, and it's just considered good practice
to write the braces in when you're writing piano score.
OK, so we have treble clef for right hand, bass clef for our left hand.
It's worth just mentioning here that although right and left are usually notated with treble
and bass clef, that's just because of where right hand and left hand parts typically tend
to sit on the keyboard, OK?
Sometimes you'll have a left hand pretty high up the keyboard, in which case it might
be notated in the treble clef, or you might have a right hand that's fairly low down
the piano keyboard, in which case it'll be notated in bass clef.
Don't worry about that for now, though – usually, though it works this way – treble, bass,
right, left.
But just because you see a treble clef doesn't necessarily mean it should be played in the
right hand.
That refers to the area of the piano the stave is covering, OK?
Not which hand you should be playing with.
OK.
Right ahead of the clefs, here, at the start of the score – by the way, we would call
these groups systems.
So this first line of right and left is the first system, this second line of right and
left is the second system; or the top system and the bottom system.
Anyway, at the very start of the first system, the very start of the score, we have the time
signature, and it is our old friend 4/4, so we know we've got four beats in the bar,
and each bar, er each beat is a crotchet, a quarter note, long.
Up here we've got a tempo marking, andante, which we've seen before and we know that
means "at a walking pace", so not at all fast, but not too slow either.
And here we've got the notes in the right and the left hands.
Now we've got a mixture of crotchets – OK, here are some crotchets, just playing them
with Sibelius – and we've got some minims, yeah, but we've also got a note that we
haven't come across before.
Right here at the start in the left we have a semibreve, which, if you're American you
would call a whole note.
Now just look at this a second – can you work out how long a semibreve lasts just by
looking at the score?
You can probably see that one semibreve lasts the full length of a bar in 4/4, which is
four crotchets, so we can see it's worth four crotchets – four beats.
It actually makes – it's one of these areas where it makes much more sense if you
use the US system, yeah?
Because we call a crotchet and a semibreve is a whole note, so it kind of makes sense,
you know, four quarter notes make up one whole note.
Or two quarter notes make one half note, a minim, and two half notes make up one whole
note.
So semibreves, whole notes, are pretty straightforward – in 4/4 time we're just holding them
down for four beats, and in this piece it's usually the length of a whole bar.
Now let's take a look at what each hand is doing.
In the right we've got something that looks like a melody, OK?
It's reasonably straightforward, and it's all taken from the C major scale.
We might therefore say that this piece is in the key of C major, and we can confirm
that because we can see that the last note is a C, OK?
We'll talk about key in a later tutorial, but just remember the term for now, OK?
The key of C major.
You'll see I've put in some fingering – in other the right and the left, yeah,
but, and this is important, I haven't put fingering on every note.
Now as a rule, composers or music editors will try not to clutter up a piano score with
too much fingering, or too much of anything else, in fact, yeah, because we want it to
be nice and clear and readable.
So what we've got here is kind of an outline of the fingering, but with most of the really
obvious stuff missed out, yeah?
I've still marked it in pretty heavily, but if you're, for example, playing that
F with your thumb and that C with your fifth it's pretty obvious that the fingers you'll
use here will be 2, 3 and 4, OK?
Yeah, OK, as you've probably noticed by the way, in the treble clef we tend to write
the fingering above the stave and in the bass clef we tend to write it below the stave.
That isn't a hard and fast rule but it's what tend to happen, hea?
And again the reason for that, above and below, is because we don't want to take up too
much space between the staves, either, which we need for other stuff – for a start we've
got this legato marking, so we know we're playing smoothly, yeah?
Legato is so common it isn't always marked unless the composer really wants to stress
legato playing – it's kind of assumed that most piano music will be played legato
unless otherwise stated.
But the things I really want you to look at here are the dynamic markings, which is what
these letters, mp at the beginning and end, and the mf, here and also this funny thing
here, which we call a hairpin, yeah?
Because it looks like a hairpin, yeah?
We'll come to that in a second.
Now, when I was playing through you might have noticed that sometimes I was playing
quite softly, and sometimes a bit louder – and that's because I was following these dynamic
markings.
Let's just look at what they mean.
Now the piece starts mp, which means moderately soft, OK?
– mezzo piano in Italian, but we don't need to worry about that, moderately soft.
Again, these things are kind of subjective – it's like the andante, you know, it's
not a hard and fast, you know, tempo marking there, saying, you know, "you must play
at 80 beats per minute".
Rather, you know, it is quite subjective, it allows you a lot of latitude in interpretation,
which is really important, because, you know, this is about being musical.
You've got to kind of interpret it for yourself.
So mp means basically quiet but not too quiet, and, as you can see, all of the first four
bars are all mp, moderately soft.
Now then, starting on bar 5 – look, we've even got the bar number up here – we're
mf, mezzo forte, means moderately loud.
So, again, we're not going overboard, not too loud, but, you know, a bit louder than
we were when we were playing mp.
Then, at the start of bar 6, we run into the hairpin.
What does that mean?
Basically it tells us to – sorry, the start of bar 7 – it tells us to steadily get quieter
throughout bar 7, OK?
So we're starting mf, here, and we're going back down to mp, to moderately soft.
A hairpin can go either way – if it starts wide and gets narrower it means 'get softer'
and if it's the other way around, you know, starts narrow and gets wider, it means 'get
louder', OK?
The important thing is, and this is really critical, is that it's gradual, and the
length of the hairpin shows us how quickly we should get louder or softer.
So in bar 7, ideally, and this is what I tried to do when I played through, each one of these
notes above the hairpin should get just a little bit softer than the one before it,
until this note in bar 8, this C, is back down to being mp – the same volume, roughly,
as at the start of the piece.
OK, as I said, important point, nobody pretends this is an exact science, so, you know, don't
go downloading a decibel-measuring app and checking that you're playing at exactly
the same volume for every mp note and all the rest – you know, this sounds kind of
wishy-washy, but dynamic markings are something you should judge very subjectively: judge
it by how it sounds to you and how it feels.
In this week's PDF, on the third page, I've included a list of some of the most common
dynamic markings, so make sure you check those out and learn them – because they will come
in really handy.
Another thing I want you to do with this short piece is listen to yourself playing it.
That sounds kind of mad, but when we're playing the piano it's very easy – and
I've said this loads of times in the past in other tutorials – it's very easy to
get so focused on pushing the right key at the right time, you know, er, yeah, um, that
we forget to listen to ourselves.
That's bad because it kind of breaks the feedback loop between ear and fingers, and
means we risk ending up with performances that are kind of, you know, technically correct
but which lack any expression.
So, listen carefully to what you're playing and, even though it's a really simple piece,
try if you can to give it a little bit of expression – make it musical if you like.
After all, that's the whole point of doing this stuff.
Now, after you've worked on that piece, which, you know, obviously I've played through
for you, I've got a little bit of homework for you before the next session.
It's a second piece of music, also in the PDF – you'll find it on the second page.
And this one I'm not going to play through for you or explain, at least not yet: your
job is to work it out for yourself.
Then I'll play it through at the start of the next lesson and you can see how you've
done.
I've included a couple of explanatory notes in there just to help you along.
Now as well as learning that unseen piece, I want you to keep practising the first piece
– OK, your aiming to have it really accurate, and to play it to a steady beat – that's
really important – don't speed up for the easy bits and slow down for the hard bits.
And, and this is really important, I also want you to keep working on the various versions
of the scale of C major that we learned in lesson 4, the previous lesson.
OK, so there we go – that should be enough to keep you going for now!
I hope you're finding the course useful so far – if you are, please do consider
supporting my crowdfunding project at www.patreon.com/billhilton, if only to the tune of, you know, a dollar
or two dollars per tutorial I post.
Remember to subscribe to my channel using the little red subscribe button down here
in the bottom right, like my Facebook page and follow me on Twitter – the links are
below – and, above all, practise practise practise so that when we go into the next
lesson, when we're going to look at another new piece and some different types of notes
and scales, you've got the stuff we've learned so far down really well.
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Hi guys, welcome back to another flight report video
Today I will be flying Singapore Airlines from Singapore to Jakarta
After spending some time in Ambassador transit lounge in Terminal 3
It is finally time to leave this beautiful terminal
and heading to Terminal 2 for my flight
Although terminal 2 is not as spacious as terminal 3
But it is still very comfortable and clean
Many facilities like indoor garden, interactive art, entertainment deck
and customer services are available here
Boarding was very on time
Not too long after i entered the gate we were already called for boarding
This time i'll be flying Boeing 777-200ER
In economy, seats are laid out in spacious 3-3-3 configurations
Seat was very comfortable with adjustable headrest
and decent amount of legroom
Remote control for the inflight entertainment is located under the arm rest
The IFE is on demand with great selections of movies, musics and TV shows
interactive flight map is also available
in a short flight, headsets are provided for passengers to take during boarding
After all the passengers had boarded the plane
scented hot towels were distributed by the cabin crew
Once the seat belt sign is turned off
The cabin crew have no time to waste
on this short 1 hour and 25 minutes flight
the cabin crew had to serve full hot meal with choices of beverages
to a full load passengers in economy
Therefore the service is rushed but still professional
There were 2 choices of main course for this supper service
Fish or Lamb. This time i went for the lamb option
It turned out to be lamb rendang with steamed rice and curry vegetable
it was very good
I also asked for a glass of red wine to compliment the meal
The meal tray also had a chocolate cake for desert
a cup of mineral water
and a cup of orange juice
Right after supper service, the cabin crew quickly took a way the meal tray
and cleared the cabin for arrival
everything is done very fast and efficiently
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"Supersede."
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Why Cheek Augmentaton Relies More on the Doctor's Technique than the Brand of Cosmetic Filler - Duration: 6:50.
Thank you for your question.
You submitted two photos and in your question, you described a situation where you describe
your facial structure as being a little bit odd and referring to some flatness in areas
around your cheek.
And you're asking about the benefit of potential fillers and specifically, Voluma.
I certainly can give you some guidance with this question.
This is a type of question that comes up in my practice every day.
A little bit of background, I'm a Board-certified cosmetic surgeon and Fellowship-trained oculofacial
plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.
And augmenting the cheekbones to help particularly enhance the whole shape of the face and particularly,
the area around the eyes is a very popular procedure in our practice.
And I would also like to address the question about the approach and you asked a specific
name brand called Juvederm Voluma.
And part of the reason why you are probably thinking about Juvederm Voluma is that the
company Allergan got the FDA approval for mid-facial augmentation with this filler.
I can tell you a little bit more of about how we use it because one thing that I always
try to emphasize in educating people about injectable fillers is that companies promote
the use of their product and the product almost becomes a concept that people feel is equivalent
between practitioners.
And I try to differentiate for my patients and for people who are interested in learning
that the product is still a tool for a practitioner to accomplish a specific outcome.
Very often, just like there's a positive association with the product, sometimes there's
a negative association.
People will say things like "I tried Voluma but it didn't work for me."
Well, I always tell them yes, that might be possible but it could also be the way the
Voluma was placed or the amount that was placed can also be an issue that led to an unsatisfactory
result.
So in our practice, we do something called structural volumizing and I think this is
very much in line with the concerns you have because what you are describing is essentially
a genetic volume deficiency of an area around the eye and around the cheekbone.
So what differentiates structural volumizing from traditional filling is that structural
volumizing, we're placing the filler at the bone level and it's done at, what I
feel, a very elegant approach using different methods that minimize bruising, minimize swelling
and minimize trauma.
And generally speaking, many doctors who use injectable fillers place fillers using a needle
and directly into a soft tissue compartment.
Certainly, that's the most popular approach but what I find is often the case is that,
either too small a volume is used so that you don't get the best volume correction
or the other side which people always notice is too much volume is placed and the soft
tissue becomes too rounded or it becomes too heavy.
With structural volumizing, it's being placed on the bone structure and we are able to get
this beautiful cheekbone definition.
This is not promoting the procedure itself but it's giving the guidance as to the differentiation
on how a filler such as Voluma can be used in different areas.
One of the advantages I feel specifically about Juvederm Voluma since you asked about
it is that the material is actually designed in a way that gives it more body, more viscosity
which gives it more strength when you place it and it tends to absorb less water as other
hyaluronic acid fillers do.
When there is less water absorbed, there's actually less swelling.
So that itself is a great advantage as a product.
But remember, you want to differentiate the product from the practitioner.
So I would recommend you find and look for a physician that you feel comfortable with
trying this product or other products depending on what your physician feels most comfortable
with.
Learn about your options.
Think about what kind of outcome would be satisfactory to you and then take the plunge.
Try to see if you like the results.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question.
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Thank you for your question.
You submitted a question without a photo and I think this is somewhat a little bit of limitation
of how I answer your question but I can certainly give you some global understanding of my perception
and considerations with a situation like yours.
You've described a situation where you've had both chin and jaw reduction surgery and
you're unhappy with the results.
You state that you have an asymmetric chin that looks like more of a "V".
You want it to look like a "U" and that you have some pre-jowl, a sulcus and you are
aware that there are such things such as pre-jowl implants.
You want a permanent solution.
Well, I can certainly give you some guidance.
A little bit of background before we move forward, I'm a Board-certified cosmetic
surgeon and Fellowship-trained oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.
Facial aging solutions and facial aesthetics is a significant part of my practice.
And so I can certainly give some overall perspective of what I hear when I see a question like
this and how I interpret this.
To begin with, you went through something very significant of what's called orthognathic
surgery.
This is something you underwent most likely with a maxillofacial surgeon and it's significant
because most likely, you had an issue with teeth occlusion as well as facial appearance.
Now once everything's been set, if you have these concerns, I think my first thought would
be is have you addressed this with your doctor and does your doctor or surgeons who performed
the surgery have some idea of what they can do to help you look a little bit better.
You know, if you are looking for a permanent solution, most likely, the surgeons who performed
this surgery will have the best idea of what is optimal if you are looking for a permanent
solution whether it's some kind of a bone grafting procedure, whether it's facial
implant surgery.
That basically covers permanent solutions.
Now speaking in terms of what can be done if you're not sure if those permanent solutions
would be right for you or maybe you would be dissatisfied with those permanent solutions,
I would actually consider doing something, although it may not be permanent, you can
get a sense of what it would look like with maybe these permanent solutions.
Maybe not exactly but it could give you an idea.
So what I'm talking about is a procedure we perform in our practice using hyaluronic
acid fillers that are on the thicker side such as Juvederm Ultra Plus and Juvederm Voluma
and the procedure is called structural volumizing.
Structural volumizing essentially means addressing a deficit in areas at the bone level.
Traditional filler placement is typically done just under the skin or in the skin, intradermal,
subcutaneous.
When we do structural volumizing, we're actually placing these thicker fillers at
the bone level.
And where do we place them?
We place them typically in the cheekbone area, in the jawline, the prejowl area, the chin
and in the jaw angle.
This combination or parts can actually have a significant impact on the appearance.
And what's really nice and remarkable about this is that you would have minimal bruising
and you can actually see close to what the final result would be almost immediately.
Now of course, there's a certain amount of swelling that can be part of the initial
adaptation process and progression of normal balance.
And in two weeks, you can actually get a better sense of what that would look like.
But I think that, given how extensive your surgery was, it's unfortunate that you're
still dissatisfied with the outcome.
I would suspect that you do have a significant improvement more globally and now what you're
doing is looking at the fine points of areas you would like to see improve.
So I think that when it comes to doing something in the fine points, the injectable fillers
actually gives us a lot of flexibility.
And even if we're not just structural volumizing, it can be a combination of structural volumizing
and soft tissue augmentation with fillers.
So I think that you can consider that and have this dialogue with your original surgeons
about the areas because maybe it's an interesting idea to have that procedure and then take
some photos and show your surgeons that this is what you would like long-term and see if
it's attainable.
So meet with qualified, experienced physicians who are familiar with this method or technique.
Most doctors don't do this.
This is something that's kind of a specialized approach to using fillers and then take it
from there and hopefully you'll get closer to the ideal that you're pursuing.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question.
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Story of Prophet Ibrahim (AS) and the Fire | Stories of Prophets for Kids | Islamic Kids Videos - Duration: 13:47.
Assalamu Alaikum!
Walaikum Assalam!
I was waiting for you Baba!
You look so excited!
Yes Baba! I really want to know
what happened to the Prophet!
Did the people throw him in fire?
What happened to him?
Haha.. Alright, I will tell you the rest of the story now.
Listen carefully.
Bismillah!
Prophet Ibrahim (as) and the great fire!
When people realized that it was Prophet Ibrahim (as)
who had destroyed the idols,
they were really angry!
They decided to burn him in the biggest fire
anyone had seen before!
First they dug a deep hole,
to put the firewood.
They gathered all the wood they could find
and started building a fire!
The people kept adding the woods for days and days,
and the fire grew stronger and stronger.
It is said that the fire grew so strong
that no one could go near it because of the heat.
It was so tall that not even the birds could fly above it!
Many people heard about this huge fire in Babylon,
and travelled to the city to witness this phenomenon!
Then one day, the people tied the hands and feet of Ibrahim(as),
and placed him on a catalpult,
so that he could be thrown into the fire.
It was then that an angel from heaven appeared before the prophet,
and asked him if he wanted any wish to be granted.
The prophet could have easily asked the angel
to save him from the fire,
but he did not.
"I only wish for Allah (swt) to be pleased with me"
he said.
What followed was a miracle!
When the prophet landed in the fire,
the fire suddenly got cold.
It only burned the ropes that tied the prophet,
and no harm came to the prophet!
The prophet sat there amidst the fire,
as if he was sitting in a garden!
He sat there and sang praises of Allah(swt)!
The people couldn't see what was happening,
so they waited for the fire to finish burning.
And finally, when the fire went out,
the prophet walked out of the fire with not a single burn in his body!
The people were shocked to see this.!
This was a miracle!!
"The God of Ibrahim(as) must be the true god"
some of them said.
But most of them were still angry
with the prophet for destroying the idols!
They decided to take the prophet for a trial to the king's palace.
The soldiers came and arrested the prophet,
and took him to the palace of King Nimrod
He was taken to the palace,
with his hands chained.
Nimrod had heard that the prophet had shattered
the idols he worshipped.
"Tell me why you smashed the idols we worship"
He asked the prophet
'They were false idols,
they were not God"
replied the prophet
"Then who is the true God ?" Nimrod asked
The prophet politely replied
"There is only one true God,
Allah (swt), He gives life and death"
The king got angry when he heard the prophet.
He stood up angrily and said,
"I can give life and death too.
Wait and I'll show you"
He asked his soldiers to bring two of his slaves to the courtroom.
He asked the slaves to kill the first one.
The guard, on hearing the order
struck the sword and killed one of the slave.
"You see, I can give death"
said Nimrod proudly.
"Now kill the other one too"
said Nimrod to the guard.
But before the guard could strike the slave with his sword,
he asked him to stop.
He then shouted to the guard,
"Don't kill him, let him live"
" He then turned to the prophet and said
"I can give life too, you just saw that"
The prophet replied
"Allah(swt) make the sun rise from the east,
can you make the sun rise from the west.
Can you do that?"
Nimrod was speechless!
He was really angry with the prophet for confronting him!
Prophet Ibrahim (as) called the people to worship Allah(swt)
for a long long time.
There were nobody willing to listen in Babylon,
except for one man and a woman!
The woman's name was Sarah,
and later she became his wife.
The man's name was Lut,
who would later become a prophet as well!
After years of calling people to Allah(swt),
the prophet realized that nobody else
was going to listen to his words.
So, he decided to migrate to another country.
He wanted to spread the message of Allah(swt) in another nation.
The prophet then asked his father to join him,
but he refused.
The prophet, the woman and Lut (as) then started
their long long journey!
They travelled through Syria,
Palestine and Egypt calling out the people to Allah (swt).
They helped the poor they could find on the way,
and they did many good deeds that made people happy!
In the meantime,
the prophet Lut (as) migrated to the Dead Sea
and settled down there.
And after a few months,
the Prophet married Sarah!
She was a good believer
and they wanted to have children,
who would spread the message of Allah(swt) after their time.
The prophet and his wife travelled again for many days
through the desert.
One day, they happened to enter the territory of an evil king.
The evil king came to know about the beautiful wife of the prophet,
and he wanted to take her.
So he send one of his soldiers to bring the prophet to him.
The soldier brought the prophet before the king.
"Who is the lady accompanying you?"
asked the evil king,
The prophet replied that she was his sister.
The evil king then asked the prophet to bring Sarah to his court.
He said that he wanted to meet this beautiful woman
that everyone in his kingdom was talking about.
The prophet went to his wife and said
"The king wants to meet you"
"Do not ever tell him that you are my wife,
because I've told him that you are my sister"
the prophet told his wife.
When Sarah went to the King's palace,
the king was struck by her beauty,
and he tried to take hold of her with his hands!
But the moment his hand got near Sarah,
it became stiff, and he could not move it!!
The king was scared that he requested Sarah
"Please pray to Allah (swt) for me,
and I will never harm you"
When Sarah prayed to Allah (swt),
his hands got cured miraculously!!
But the moment he realized that his hands were cured,
the foolish king tried to take hold of Sarah again!!
And for the second time, his hands got stiff.
The king couldn't move his hands at all!!
"Please pray to Allah (swt) for me..
I shall never harm you again!" said the king.
Sarah prayed to Allah again,
and his hands got cured for the second time.
This time the King realized that Sarah
was no ordinary woman.
So he gave Sarah a gift!
He gave her one of his Egyptian maid servant,
and her name was Hajar!
When Sarah returned home,
the prophet asked her what happened?
"Allah (swt) taught that evil king a lesson,
and he gave me maid- Hajar" replied Sarah
Years passed and the prophet grew old.
His hair grayed,
but he continued to call people back to Allah (swt).
Sarah too had grown old,
and she realized that she would no longer
be able to give birth to a child.
So she asked the prophet to marry their servant Hajar.
She then prayed to Allah(swt) to bless them with a child!
After a few months,
Hajar gave birth to a child,
and they named him Ismail!
By now, the prophet had grown very old!
One day the prophet woke up,
he felt like Allah(swt) wanted him to do something.
So he went to Hajar.
"Get Ismail" He said
"Get ready for a long journey"
Ibrahim (as) and his wife with the baby in her arms
kept travelling for a long long time.
They walked for many days till they reached a dry valley of the desert
near the Al-Marwah mountain.
There were no fruits,
no trees, no food, and no water either!
No signs of any life could be found in the valley
The prophet then left his wife and son
with a small amount of food and water.
This was hardly enough for both of them to last for two days!!
The prophet then turned around and started walking away.
His wife hurried after him
"Where are you going,
leaving us in this barren valley?"
she cried to him.
But the prophet did not answer her,
and kept walking away.
She called him again,
but the prophet remained silent and walked away!
Finally she understood that the prophet was not acting on his own.
She realized that Allah(swt) had commanded him to do this.
"Did Allah(swt) command you to do so?"
she asked him.
The Prophet shook his head and continued walking.
Then his great wife said
"We are not going to be lost,
since Allah(swt) who commanded you is with us"
The prophet was very sad
as he had left his wife and his son in a barren desert,
where there were no other people.
He prayed to Allah(swt) to give his wife and son enough food.
And he asked Allah(swt) to send people with good hearts to them
Oh no.. Why did the Prophet leave his wife and son?
Why did he do that?
It was because Allah(swt) had commanded him..
Hmm.. What happened next?
I will tell you the remaining story tomorrow.
Ok baba.
Before I leave,
let me ask you a few questions.
Are you ready?
I am ready!!
Alright. Now tell me why was the prophet thrown into the fire?
Here are the options:
Option A- Because He had smashed the idols they worshipped,
Option B- He stole their idols,
and Option C- He burned the idols
That's an easy one,
The prophet was thrown in fire
because he smashed the idols the people worshipped!
Masha Allah.. that's the right answer.
Thank you Baba
How did the prophet challenge King Nimrod?
The prophet asked the king if he could make the sun rise from the west!
Isn't that right?
That's right again.
Now tell me who accompanied the Prophet when he left Babylon
The prophet's cousin Lut joined him,
and another believer Sarah too accompanied him
That's very good!
Hmm.. What was the name of the Prophet's first son?
It was Ismail (as)!!
Masha Allah..! That's right again!
Its time for me to leave.
Insha Allah..! I'll tell you the remaining story tomorrow.
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