The Table Full of Good
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The Table Full of Good
£21
So much came before one small breakfast.
A Qur'an-inspired story about provision, bismillah and everything standing behind an ordinary plate of food.
Inspired by Surah Al-Maʿidah · Ages 3–7 · Hardback edition
Read The Table Full of Good
Breakfast is one egg, a glass of milk and a slice of sourdough toast.
Yusuf says bismillah and begins. Then he starts asking where it all came from.
The egg leads to the hens. The milk leads to a dairy. The toast leads to a bakery, and the bakery to a mill, and the mill to a field. The olives came from Palestine.
What he cannot see so easily is everything that had to happen before it arrived there: seasons turning, living creatures, and patient, skilled hands.
With Teta beside him, Yusuf begins to understand Allah as Ar-Razzaq, the Provider.
Inspired by Surah Al-Maʿidah, The Table Full of Good moves gratitude gently outward.
Bismillah before eating and alhamdulillah afterwards mean something different once you have seen how far a breakfast travelled to reach you.
What had to happen before your breakfast reached you?
Inside the book
- 24 illustrated story pages
- Inspired by Surah Al-Maʿidah
- A gentle introduction to the name Ar-Razzaq
- A related Prophetic teaching
- Pronunciation guidance
- A short dua
- One question to wonder about together
- Premium hardback to keep
Ages 3–7 · Hardback · Ships worldwide
The Table Full of Good is book six of six. The Abundance Collection brings all six first edition hardbacks together in a slipcase, £84.
Take a look inside
Two spreads from the first edition, just as they are printed. The rest we shall save for bedtime.
Pages 2 and 3 · Breakfast
A warm egg, olives, strawberries and toast. Before Yusuf takes a bite, Teta reminds him to say Bismillah, and he wants to know why.
Pages 8 and 9 · In the garden
Yusuf sets off with his notebook to find out where breakfast comes from. Baba has the tomatoes, and Mrs Green has the strawberries.
All six stories are also sold together, in their own slipcase, as The Abundance Collection, £84
Meet the author
Nada Zameer
Nada Zameer is the author of The Abundance Collection and the co-founder and creative director of Rutab Books London, the family press she runs with her husband. A law graduate from London, she gathers her stories on long walks through St James's Park and Hyde Park, past Buckingham Palace and along the Thames towards Hampton Court, photographing the small details that end up on the page. The robin in her books was first spotted on one of those walks.
Her husband hears every story first. His favourite is Who Makes It Grow?, for its lesson in doing your part and trusting Allah with the rest.
Written, and every scene imagined, by Nada Zameer
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