Juz by Juz: The Three Messengers

Juz by Juz: The Three Messengers is an Islamic video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Sheikh Azhari and his children tell the story from Surah Ya-Sin of the town that rejected Allah's messengers, and the brave man who came running from far away to stand up for them.

Allah sent two messengers to the people of a town, and then a third to support them: three at once. The people would not listen. They called the messengers liars. They were also superstitious: the Sheikh explains that they watched the birds, and thought that a bird flying one way meant good luck and the other way bad luck. They blamed the messengers for their bad luck and threatened them.

Then a man came running from the far end of the town. He told his people to follow the messengers, who asked for nothing in return. The people killed him, the scholars of tafsir say. But Allah told him to enter Jannah, and he wished his people could know how his Lord had forgiven him and honoured him.

The Sheikh draws the lessons: never lie, because Allah knows and the angels write it down, and the Prophet ﷺ hated lying; run to do a good deed when you have the chance; and help anyone in trouble. He adds an easy good deed for Ramadan: give a fasting person something to break their fast, and you get the reward of their fast too.

The children draw something that flies in the sky and what they would like to eat in Jannah, and answer a quiz about the prophet with no father, which shoe goes on first and who gave the adhan.

• Surah Ya-Sin 36:13-27: Two messengers are sent to a town and a third to support them; the people call them liars and blame them for bad omens; a man comes running to defend them, and he is told to enter Paradise.
• Surah Qaf 50:17-18: Two recording angels sit on the right and on the left, and every word is written down.
• Jami at-Tirmidhi 807: Whoever gives a fasting person something to break their fast has a reward like theirs, without taking anything from theirs.