Fruity Poems
Orange
First you have to peel the skin
Throw it all in the garbage bin
Then you take a juicy slice
Of your orange - very nice!
Sticky on your fingers too
Good to eat when you have flu
Before you eat, say 'Bismillah'
It is food from Allah.
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Grapes
Lots of little balls to munch
Grow together in a bunch
Carefully picked from the tree
Tasty grapes for you and me!
We have green grapes, black ones too,
Inside bits they look see-through!
Give some to your friends to eat
It is Allah's treat!
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Banana
Peel the yellowskin - don't stop
Starting from the very top
Take the yellow jacket off
Your banana out it pops!
Bite the head off first of all
Getting smaller, first it's tall!
Throw the skin away - each bit
So your feet don't slip on it!
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Plum
Purple is her skin on top
Pick it with your hand
- Don't drop!
With your little fingers, thumbs
Bite the juicy plums!
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Pear
Soft and sweet and almost round
Color is a greeny-brown
Eat it with the skin or bare
It's a juicy pear!
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Apple
In the garden you can see
Sitting on the apple-tree
Crunchy, round and very sweet
Is the apple that we eat!
Red on top and inside, white
Juicy when you take a bite
Crunch it all every bit
Thank Allah for it!
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Fruits can remind us of Allah. He is the One who made them for us to eat. When we eat them we should be thankful to Allah. We should say "Alhamdulilah" after we eat. Allah tells us about fruits in the Qur'an.
«It is He Who sendeth down rain from the skies: with it We produce vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green (crops), out of which We produce grain, heaped up (at harvest); out of the date-palm and its sheaths (or spathes) (come) clusters of dates hanging low and near: and (then there are) gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) yet different (in variety): when they begin to bear fruit, feast your eyes with the fruit and the ripeness thereof. Behold! in these things there are Signs for people who believe.»
Surah Al-An'aam 6: 99
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Can you name all the fruits in the picture on top?