Download this worksheet and, using the Learn to Recite video, pause during each ayat of the video to fill in the missing letters. This should help your mind sound out the letters in each word, which should help you connect more, understand and pronounce this surah correctly.  

  Each ayat contains Arabic vocabulary words you should learn. Download this worksheet and use the Meaning of Surah At-Takathur video to write the English translation of the Arabic vocabulary words to learn in each ayat. This should help to improve your connection to and understanding of this surah.    

 Ustadh Michael Woflender and his 5th grade class stage a play to help teach the lessons of Surah At-Takathur (102 The Rivalry in World Increase). Students take us through each verse to understand that the meaning of this surah focuses on mankind’s inherent race for more things in this world which distract us from attraction to Our Creator. Allah states in At-Takathur how many things are a distraction until visiting graves or death. He repeats this warning, as many humans cling to the adage of "I’ll believe it when I see it." At 3:40, we learn how Allah clearly states the fact that there is a life in the hereafter as truth - that there is certainty in the hereafter we will all attain after judgment. Ustadh Michael concludes the lesson at 4:15 explaining how belief can be attained, in this instance for the hereafter, by defeating the "I’ll believe it when I see it" mentality.

  Here is the answer key to the Learn to Recite Surah At-Takathur exercise.