Salam alaikum
I have been using the app for almost a couple of months now. I discovered the discussion channel only a few days ago.
I really appreciate the spaced reviews for solid retention and the practice challenge. It has been very helpful and i cannot wait for the grammar version.
I have seen a lot of people ask about leaderboard to include top 10 forexample.
Absolutely love the idea of weekly leaderboard. Giving people chance to restart. I believe that top 3 works just fine. Im generally a competitive person so i understand where the people’s concerns come from but, at the end of the day, the main purpose is to learn quranic arabic. (Purifying intentions)
I have learned to accept that i wont come first in my city, forget global because the people above me have way too many points. Im still trying to compete and push myself to get a personal best.
People have pointed out learning a lot more words to get more points but like brother Areeb has said, its not a sprint its a marathon. What benefit will those points do if you are not retaining the information? However, if you want to still increase your points, practice challenge is a great way to do it, especially, when we are waiting for something in a line or during commute, you can do a lot.
Other discussion i have seen is about images, especially rainbow coloured ones. You associating rainbow with lgbt is your problem. Rainbow isnt exclusive to lgbt. Its up to us to decide what rainbow means or not. They are a group of beautiful colours and should be embraced back to what they are supposed to be, A rainbow in the sky! Also if you dont like images, there is an option to turn them off.
I agree with this. The app is been amazing so far and I’ve enjoyed and much more than the other apps I’ve tried to use.
About the images, it’s interesting because I think the reason why people are unhappy about the rainbow is because they are worried for the youth and it makes sense that a rainbow is simply the amazing creation of Allah. The problem is that the way the AI will place the rainbows and the fact that most of the youth these days are almost always on a electronic device (my younger brothers are one example of this)
So yes the rainbow is good but because of the amount of media children absorb everyday and how their brains work, they might not fully understand what the image is trying to say.
I’m not really focused on the rainbows, it’s more of the images that are hard to make any sense of whatsoever. My goal is to convince the Muslim community of my high school to use the app and find a way to implement into their daily lives so they can keep the knowledge with them for the rest of their lives.
I personally think the pictures dont help me in understanding and its not like during review time, you can see the pictures so not helpful but each to their own style of learning.
Look I understand your concern about youth being on e-devices but this is not a child/youth app. If they’re old enough to be on this app, they’re old enough to know/taught whats right and what’s wrong.
Again, if we are just going to eliminate/fear monger it, it’s not going to help the youth. They will face this one day whether online or in real life and better you explain to them what a rainbow is and how it’s much more than lgbt sign and why lgbt is haram in our religion than them exploring it all themselves.
Also you can’t really eliminate rainbow stuff from children because they attracted to bold and colourful things and are curious beings.
As a child and much of my teen years even, I was fascinated by rainbow and would get excited everytime I saw it in the sky. And I feel like children these days shouldn’t be robbed of that joy.
It’s the same issue I have with muslim schools telling kids lgbt is haram and bad and that’s the end of it. No, you have to open this topic up, obviously, having right tools to educate our youth so they know why it’s wrong and how to navigate through this fitna.
We have seen that us trying to completely alienate things from muslim world hasn’t helped us before, e.g. AI & meta
A lot of Muslims were so sceptic about it and are now catching up compared to western world.
The parents and teachers here are more than welcome to challenge my views above.
About the age of the users on this app, the fact that their goal is to implement the app into many Muslims schools shows how that they want to make this app suitable for children. They also wrote in their grammar email:
The youth will learn about lgbt sooner or later as they grow older, but they should at least learn why it’s haram and what it all means. Children will have to learn in some way how everything works, and on the topic of lgbt and rainbows there are a lot of issues going around in different Muslim schools. I don’t really know how the Muslim schools work myself, as I never went to one, but inshallah there will be a way to teach them about these topics while also making sure they learn properly.
Visual learners will benefit from pictures. Audio learners will benefit from hearing it.
Tactile learners might just learn from the experience and through memorizing and routines. It really just depends on who the person is and whether they will like the images or not. A lot of people are visual learners, especially the youth, so I get why the pictures were made in the first place.
