The Wonderful Box – the ninth story – from the Love Series, Level Two: “I Love You All” in the Tafakkur Program. This is a series of methodological stories that build the child’s faith and self-confidence, while nurturing thinking, creativity, and intelligence.

Blessings cling to our bodies and surround us, and so we grow accustomed to them; our enjoyment of them weakens, leaving us in need of an “extraordinary event” that reawakens our awareness of these blessings and allows us to once again delight in possessing them—filling us with love for Allah’s giving and confidence in ourselves through the honor He bestows upon us.

In this story, the extraordinary event is a wonderful box that appears to Annoos in an atmosphere filled with humor, employing the strategies of contemplation, imagination, and “what if” to develop the creative thinking abilities of our creative, confident child.