I Will Not Clean My Room

I Will Not Clean My Room is an Islamic audiobook for young children, told in rhyme, about a boy called Musa who would rather dream about Jannah than tidy his room, and who learns that good deeds are worth the effort.

Musa loves to play and cannot sit still. When his mama asks him to clean his room, he keeps jumping on his bed. He grumbles that his sister Leila made the mess too, and his mama reminds him that Allah does not like the unkind things we say. Leila kindly comes to help, but Musa soon sits down among the toys and starts to dream. In Jannah, he says, his room will clean itself. He imagines a castle full of toys, a racetrack with a thousand cars, a milk chocolate stream, a plane he can walk on in the sky, and flying horses for Leila.

When he bursts through the door, his mama is sitting on the floor, laughing. She hugs them both and tells them she loves them, clean room or not. Musa asks whether he can still go to Jannah if his room is messy. Good deeds can be hard and boring, she tells him, but it feels great to win reward, and Allah always sends help once we try. The whole family tidies up together, and that night Musa says sorry to Allah and asks for His help.

Part of the My Journey to Jannah series, it is written by Saharish Arshad, illustrated by Elsa Estrada and narrated by Rania Kurdi. It takes about six minutes and is music-free.