A Child Reads Quotes

“No living nation throughout history but employs the lives of its great figures and major events as leverage for educating its youngsters.”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads

“Reading can play the part of rescuing children who live the wretched life of extreme poverty – a life of deprivation kills children's ambition, so that they accept whatever comes their way. And here comes the part of reading, for it helps the children escape from their confined space and difficult time to unbounded space and stimulates them to
extend their vision until it coextends with all history. Reading is in this case not a component of life – it is life!

Indeed, poor and illiterate families' children need reading more than other children, so that they do not fall a prey to desperation, hopelessness, and narrow-mindedness.”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads

“A reading family practices activities pertaining to reading on a daily basis. In such an atmosphere, children would see, wherever they turn their heads, a father holding a book, a brother sketching something, or a mother explicating some obscure notion to their siblings.”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads

“A certain mother noticed that her ten year old daughter had a driving desire to take possession of everything – to the extent of using lies to claim something that does not belong to her; and besides that, she noticed that her seven year old son would crush an ant or any other insect cruelly and brutally with his foot – as if he were taking revenge on those weak creatures!

To deal with these problems, the mother went to a library and borrowed some stories focusing on generosity and helpfulness, and on kindness to animals. The outcome of this is described by the mother in these words, "The story which left the deepest effect on the children's consciousness was that of 'The Blind Cat', which is about a cat which lost her vision during pregnancy; and when she delivered her kittens she had to face the problem of how to care for them, and how to keep them near her." Then she adds, "More than ten times I told this story to my children; and every time one or more of them wept at hearing it. Then one said, in perfect innocence, 'Mom, why don't you bring this cat to our home, so that we help her care for her kittens?”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads

“I end this note with a saying of a great scholar, Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, who once said, "Reading is really Allah's early reward to the believer; a first reward before the Day of Judgment!”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads