Year 6 Islamic RE: Spring 2 worksheet

“Guarding the Two Sanctuaries” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 Islamic studies unit “Islamic RE: Spring 2”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 19 to 24 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Guarding the Two Sanctuaries

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · Islamic RE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how the Ottomans cared for Makkah, Madinah and the Hajj route.

A Look back3 min

1.
Riya, Hasad and are diseases of the heart. Circle the missing one.
KibrSabrShukr
2.
Qadar has four levels. Look at the chain and circle the missing level.
WritingCreationKnowledgeWill
3.
The first stage of the soul is the self that commands towards wrong. Circle its name.
AmmarahLawwamahMutmainnah

B Watch me, then you4 min

Every year a caravan left Cairo heading for Makkah, crossing the desert with its travellers. Follow its route.

Watch me

The caravan set out from Cairo.

It crossed the desert road with soldiers and water.

It reached Makkah, one of the Two Sanctuaries.

Now you

1.
The caravan left Damascus and crossed the desert. Circle where it ended.
MakkahIstanbulDamascus

C Your turn6 min

Circle the word that fits each sentence. Each sentence is about a different word from this week.

The Great Mosque in Makkah with the Ka'bah in the middle, seen from a distance

1.
Pilgrims crossed the desert to Makkah together in large, guarded groups called ___. Circle the missing word.
SanctuariesGardensMountainsCaravans
2.
The mahmal was a decorated tent-like frame carried on a camel. It went with the yearly ___ Hajj caravan from Cairo. Circle the missing word.
OttomanPersianMughalRoman
3.
Hajj is the pilgrimage to the Ka'bah. Circle the city where the Ka'bah stands.
MakkahMadinahCairoIstanbul
4.
Sultans who protected Makkah and Madinah, the Haramayn, were called Servants of the Two Holy ___. Circle the missing word.
SanctuariesRiversMountainsPillars

Say it out loud: Each sentence had a gap. Which word did the gap need each time, and what helped you choose it?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Makkah and Madinah came under Ottoman rule in 1453, when they took Constantinople.”

1.
In what year did Sultan Selim I take Makkah and Madinah?

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Why might the Ottomans have seen guarding the Hajj route as a religious duty, not only a political job? Write one sentence.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Guarding the Two Sanctuaries · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Kibr

2. Writing

3. Ammarah

B

1. Makkah If your child circles Damascus, they have named the start of the journey. Ask where the caravan was going.

C

1. Caravans If your child circles Sanctuaries, read the worked example again. The group of travellers that set out from Cairo was a caravan.

2. Ottoman If your child circles another empire, read the title and goal together. From 1517 the Ottoman state ran the Hajj caravans from Cairo and Damascus.

3. Makkah If your child circles Madinah, explain that Madinah is holy too, but the Ka'bah stands in Makkah. Point to the picture of the Great Mosque.

4. Sanctuaries If your child circles Rivers or Pillars, read the title aloud and ask what the holy cities were called in the title.

D

1. 1517 If your child gives the date of a different Ottoman event, ask which city that date belongs to. Constantinople and the Two Sanctuaries were taken at different times.

E

1. Look for: A sentence linking safe travel for pilgrims to Hajj as a duty for those able, and to serving Allah and Muslims.

Words to use

Say“Which city did the caravan start from, and where did it end? How do you know?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away so they do not have to think about the route.”

After the sheet

Draw a simple route from home to the shops with three stops. Tell the story of the journey aloud, then swap roles.

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The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Ottomans: strength or weakness?(with a plan)
Muslims in Britain: Then and Now(with a plan)
Being British and Muslim(with a plan)
Gifts That Last: Waqf(with a plan)
Building Values in Stone(with a plan)

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