The six hardback covers of The Abundance Collection shown together: Every Good Thing, More Than Enough, The Bee's Sweet Gift, The Table Full of Good, The Thankful Garden and Who Makes It Grow? Each is a watercolour picture book inspired by a surah of the Qur'an.

The Abundance Collection — First Edition Hardbacks

£70.00 GBP
Skip to product information
The six hardback covers of The Abundance Collection shown together: Every Good Thing, More Than Enough, The Bee's Sweet Gift, The Table Full of Good, The Thankful Garden and Who Makes It Grow? Each is a watercolour picture book inspired by a surah of the Qur'an.
  • The six hardback covers of The Abundance Collection shown together: Every Good Thing, More Than Enough, The Bee's Sweet Gift, The Table Full of Good, The Thankful Garden and Who Makes It Grow? Each is a watercolour picture book inspired by a surah of the Qur'an.
  • Editorial page for The Abundance Collection, six hardback picture books for children aged 3 to 7, headed 'Built to be asked for again tomorrow night', with notes on how each story is written and illustrated.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Baba kneeling in the soil beside Yusuf, the two of them looking closely at a new green shoot.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Amira picking a fig from the laden tree while Mama kneels beside her, watching.
  • Story page from Who Makes It Grow?: Yusuf stands alone on bare earth with his watering can, waiting for the seed to appear, the story text set beneath the watercolour illustration.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Amira kneeling among tall pink flowers, watching a honeybee hover just above the blooms.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: a girl standing at an arched stone window, looking out into a sunlit green courtyard beside a clay water jar.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: a girl looking out over a walled courtyard garden at dusk, a full moon rising above the trees.
  • Story page from The Abundance Collection: a woman in a headscarf stands in a doorway handing a bowl of round breads to a young boy, with the story text set beneath the watercolour illustration.
  • The six hardback covers of The Abundance Collection shown together: Every Good Thing, More Than Enough, The Bee's Sweet Gift, The Table Full of Good, The Thankful Garden and Who Makes It Grow? Each is a watercolour picture book inspired by a surah of the Qur'an.
  • Editorial page for The Abundance Collection, six hardback picture books for children aged 3 to 7, headed 'Built to be asked for again tomorrow night', with notes on how each story is written and illustrated.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Baba kneeling in the soil beside Yusuf, the two of them looking closely at a new green shoot.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Amira picking a fig from the laden tree while Mama kneels beside her, watching.
  • Story page from Who Makes It Grow?: Yusuf stands alone on bare earth with his watering can, waiting for the seed to appear, the story text set beneath the watercolour illustration.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: Amira kneeling among tall pink flowers, watching a honeybee hover just above the blooms.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: a girl standing at an arched stone window, looking out into a sunlit green courtyard beside a clay water jar.
  • Watercolour illustration from The Abundance Collection: a girl looking out over a walled courtyard garden at dusk, a full moon rising above the trees.
  • Story page from The Abundance Collection: a woman in a headscarf stands in a doorway handing a bowl of round breads to a young boy, with the story text set beneath the watercolour illustration.
The Abundance Collection — First Edition Hardbacks

The Abundance Collection — First Edition Hardbacks

£70.00 GBP

A complete first library for Muslim childhood. Six illustrated hardbacks in which gratitude, provision, trust in Allah and generosity live inside ordinary stories rather than arriving as lessons afterwards.

Six hardbacks · Ages 3–7 · £70 · Complimentary UK delivery

First Edition reservations close when this print run becomes fully allocated.

 

A small library for the way you want them to see the world.

A seed pushed into the soil. Honey spread over toast. A flower that has finished. An Eid morning. A table with room for one more.

The Abundance Collection is six illustrated stories about the ordinary things children already understand — and the Qur'anic ideas they can begin to discover through them.

Each story is rooted in one surah.

There is no lesson pasted on afterwards. The meaning lives inside what Amira and Yusuf see, do, wait for, lose, taste and give away.

Six hardbacks · Ages 3–7 · First Edition 2026

See inside the stories

The stories come first.

The seed has to be planted. The honey has to be tasted. The flower really does finish. Someone unexpected really does need a place at the table.

The child gets a story worth following before being asked to understand what it means.

Six stories. One little library.

Every Good Thing

One ordinary day becomes an exercise in noticing just how much goodness it contains.

Who Makes It Grow?

Yusuf plants a seed, waters it and waits — discovering the difference between what is ours to do and what was never ours to command.

More Than Enough

An Eid story about the strange arithmetic of generosity: sometimes giving something away is precisely what makes abundance visible.

The Thankful Garden

A flower finishes its season, and Amira discovers that gratitude does not require pretending that nothing sad has happened.

The Bee's Sweet Gift

Honey on toast sends Amira into the garden, where one small bee changes the way she notices the world around her.

The Table Full of Good

A family table becomes fuller when somebody else is given a place at it.

Faith, without turning every story into a lesson.

You already know many of the things you want your child to grow up knowing. That Allah gives. That effort matters, but outcomes are His. That enough can make room for generosity. That gratitude still has something to say when a thing we loved has finished. The difficult part is often not knowing these things yourself. It is finding a way for a small child to meet them naturally.

So instead of explaining gratitude, Amira gets a ripe fig she can hold and taste. Instead of explaining trust, Yusuf plants, waters and waits. Instead of giving the child a definition of generosity, the story gives somebody else a seat at the table.

The idea arrives through something the child already understands.

One family, from one story to the next.

Amira and Yusuf return across all six books with Mama, Baba and Teta.

Your child begins to recognise them. To remember what happened before. To know whose garden this is, who sits around the table and who might appear on the next page.

That continuity is deliberate.

These were not written as six unrelated Islamic titles bundled together afterwards. They were written to stand together.

A first little library about abundance, work, gratitude, provision, trust and giving — seen through the same family and the same ordinary childhood.

The First Edition reservation

Rutab Books is an independent publisher. Rather than printing an arbitrary quantity and hoping families find the books afterwards, we are opening the first production run directly to the families who want it. Your reservation counts towards that first print run.

Payment is taken when you reserve.

Six hardbacks · £70 · Complimentary UK delivery

Made for the beginning of their bookshelf.

Not six lessons. Not six disconnected books bought one at a time.

Six stories written to stand beside one another — for the years when a seed, a spoonful of honey, a finished flower and a seat at the table can still become the beginning of something much larger.

Six books make a rather good beginning. For a new baby who will grow into them. Or the beginning of a child's own shelf. Add the recipient's name and a message at checkout and we will include a printed gift note with the collection.

Please enter the recipient's name
Please enter a gift message
See inside the books

Watercolour, room on every page, and lines short enough for a four-year-old to say back to you. A few notes from the desk where they were written sit underneath.

Amira picking a fig from the laden tree while Mama watches
The fig tree was laden with soft fruit, so heavy the branches bent. She picked one, and it was sweet. “The figs are a gift too,” said Mama.
7
Every Good Thing · Surah Ar Rahman

We did not want to hand a child the word gratitude and hope it stuck. So she gets a fig instead, off a branch bending under the weight of it, something she can hold and taste and thank Him for.

The word can come later. The feeling has to come first.

Baba kneeling in the soil beside Yusuf at the new shoot
Baba knelt beside him. “You planted it,” he said. “But Allah grew it. That is how every good thing works.”
15
Yusuf sitting back on his heels, thinking about the shoot
Yusuf thought about that. He had done a small thing, and Allah had done the big one.
16
Who Makes It Grow? · Surah Al Waqiah

This is the spread we rewrote the most. Yusuf’s part had to remain real: he did plant it. And the growing had to remain something he could never do for himself. Both truths sit in one breath, so effort and trust never end up on opposite sides.

Then we stopped. No “because”. No “therefore”. No moral added afterwards. The moment had already said enough.

Reservation FAQs

  • The collection is designed primarily for children aged 3–7. At the younger end, they are read-aloud stories: spare text, repeated lines and plenty to notice in the pictures. Older children can begin returning to them independently.

  • They are explicitly Muslim books, and each story is rooted in one surah. But they are written as stories rather than lessons. Children garden, eat breakfast, visit neighbours, share food, ask questions and notice the world around them. The Qur'anic idea belongs inside what happens.

  • The hardbacks are being produced in a scheduled print run. Your order reserves one collection from the current run. Once reservations close, we confirm the quantity and printing begins. Payment is taken when you reserve.

  • Because hardbacks will not remain continuously open for ordering. The current print run closes 31 August 2026 or earlier if its allocation fills. After that, hardback ordering pauses until a future print window. So waiting may mean waiting for the next run rather than simply returning next week and ordering the same edition.

  • The current estimate is September 2026 dispatch. You will receive an order confirmation when you reserve and a further update when your collection is on its way.

  • We will email you with the revised timing. You may cancel your reservation for a full refund at any point before dispatch.

  • Yes. The digital collection is available separately for families who would prefer to print or read the stories that way. The First Edition is the physical six-hardback library: bound books for repeated reading, shelving, gifting and passing on.

  • Yes. Add the recipient and your message and we will include a printed gift note.
a gift for the kitchen table

Six colouring pages, drawn from our books.

Print them at home, leave them on the table with some pencils, and see what happens.

A bee from the colouring book, drawn in outline

Free, printable, and yours to keep.

You may also like