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The Sīrah Year at Home: a free 36-week planner

One lesson a week, a review week after each unit, and a two-week capstone: a whole year of the Prophet's ﷺ life for a family, in the order the FISLI Middle School Sīrah course teaches it. Print it, tick the boxes, write down what your child asked.

Download the planner (PDF) Spreadsheet (CSV)

The year at a glance

How a lesson runs at the kitchen table

Sixty to ninety minutes. Read the lesson together (the teacher guide tells the parent what to say and why the lesson sits where it does). Reflect on the Qurʾānic anchor. Discuss the two questions in the guide. Write three sentences. Once a unit, assess with the answer key. No Arabic is required of the parent: every term is transliterated and explained where it appears.

Where the lessons come from

The planner follows the eight units of the FISLI Middle School Sīrah course, told from Ibn Hishām and the two Ṣaḥīḥs with every source labelled, and built around the principle that students should meet the Prophet ﷺ as a person before they study doctrine. The three Year of the Elephant films are the media edition of Unit 1, Lesson 3; watch them in week 4. The Sīrah Year at Home ($197 a year) is the full family edition with the teacher guides, student pages and assessments; the free Manṭiq unit shows the same lesson format in another discipline.

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