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Preview: ‘Time to Pray’

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Assalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

The ever imminent completion of books 3 and 4 is close at hand insha’Allah. Just some last minute preparation now, till they are sent off to the printers. Allhamdulilaah.

Neilsen have the details for both books now, they’re all ISBN’ed up and good-to-go, so expect them to turn up on Amazon and other sites in the next few weeks

The one more likely to be available first, ‘Allah lets us have fun’, was previewed here. Below is the preview of the other book, which will be a ‘board book’ insha’Allah, ‘Time to Pray’. Another rhyming pre-school book, but different to all the others.

Here’s the blurb from the back cover:

Time to wake up. Time for Fajr. Make your Wudhu and go to the
Masjid.  A rhyming story to teach children the benefit of prayer.
It’s important to show this vital part in the life of every Muslim,
in an accessible way. We can’t overestimate the value of prayer.

Here are some sample pages (click to enlarge):

Preview of Time to Pray

Preview of Time to Pray

As you can see, the style is very different from the other books, and it’s our first book with ‘no faces’, which is a big issue for some people. Something I’ve been looking into a great deal.

All this has delayed the launch of our online shop, so apologies for that. The Seerah Store will see the light of day soon insha’Allah.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullahposted by Faruq

All images - copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq

Preview: ‘Allah lets us have fun’

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Assalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

We are hard at work preparing the next 2 or 3 books fo release insha’Allah, though even after they go to print, it may take another 2-3 months before they will be on-the-shelves, as it were.

Buying our books should be easier soon insha’Allah, as the Seerah Store, is in development, and may be online by the end of February. Insha’Allah this will allow you to buy books directly from us at the click of a mouse. We will post the news when it goes live.

Here, to show you what’s been happening behind closed doors at StoneFaruq, is a preview of artwork from our forthcoming book ‘Allah lets us have fun’, which will insha’Allah teach children to appreciate the many gifts Allah has give us, that we easily take for granted. Here are the first 2 pages in the book, set in a playground (click to enlarge):

Preview of Allah lets us have fun

The artwork is in a similar style to ‘Time for Isha’a’, with characters made from torn card and paper, scanned in, and mixed with other collage elements using Adobe Photoshop (version 7). Here are 2 pages from the middle of the story, from a classroom (click to enlarge):

Preview of Allah lets us have fun

The book size will be a larger format, closer to the size of ‘The Jolly Jamaat’, and insha’Allah the first print will be published in hardback. There will still be minor changes, text rearranged, faces added, but the book is close to ready now, and may go to print in a few weeks insha’Allah. Half the book was finished by Ramadhan 2008, but in the meantime I had to spend about 2-3 months getting all these sites live, and getting other books into shops.

We will post more previews of other books in the weeks to come insha’Allah.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullahposted by Faruq

All images are copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq

Encyclopedia of Seerah - Print Status

Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Insha’Allah, from now on all news concerning the Seerah Foundation will be posted on this Blog to, just to make things easier, as it’s me who updates both websites anyway.

 

We have been recieving a high number of requests to buy sets of the Encyclopedia of Seerah, but unfortunately we do not have any complete sets in stock at the moment.
Out of the 8 Volumes, we currently only have Volume 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 in stock, with no date as to when the missing books will be printed.

Insha’Allah, any progress on this front will be posted here, and also emailed to those who have made enquiries by E-Mail.

Jazak’Allah Khair. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullahposted by Faruq