Birth to one year

Cards your baby can actually see.

A newborn focuses at 20–30cm and sees almost no colour. Little Ummah is four sets of flashcards built around that fact, drawn from Islamic geometry, and shifting as your baby's sight does.

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88 cards in the set
4 developmental stages
3 languages on every word card
Two Little Ummah cards — a black and white eight-point star and a green letter card.

Why staged cards

Infant sight changes fast. Most cards don't.

Built on the research

Contrast sensitivity, colour onset, depth perception — each stage matches what the visual cortex can process at that age, not what looks nice in a nursery.

Drawn from the tradition

Girih interlacing, the eight-point star, the crescent, huruf hijaiyah. Shapes your child will keep meeting for the rest of their life, introduced before they can hold their head up.

Bilingual by default

Arabic, Malay and English at the same size on the same card. The language of home and the language of the Qur'an, neither one a footnote to the other.

The four stages

One set for each phase of the first year

Start wherever your baby is. Each stage works on its own, and they run in sequence from the first week to the first birthday.

Stage 01 — High Contrast

0–3 months

High Contrast

Pure black and white, at the sharpest contrast the newborn eye can register.

Stage 02 — First Colour

3–6 months

First Colour

One saturated colour at a time, on the bold forms of the first set.

Stage 03 — Letters & Shapes

6–9 months

Letters & Shapes

The full palette arrives, and with it the huruf hijaiyah.

Stage 04 — First Words

9–12 months

First Words

One picture, one word, in three languages of equal weight.

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The Complete Set Best value
0–12 months 88 cards

The Complete Set

All four stages, birth to one year.

RM249

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Stage 1 — High-Contrast Cards Start here
0–3 months 20 cards

Stage 1 — High-Contrast Cards

Black and white patterns for the first eight weeks.

RM59

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Stage 2 — First Colour
3–6 months 20 cards

Stage 2 — First Colour

Red enters the world, on bold simple forms.

RM69

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Stage 3 — Letters & Shapes
6–9 months 24 cards

Stage 3 — Letters & Shapes

Full colour, and the first Arabic letters.

RM79

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Journal

Notes on sight, sound and the first year

What a newborn actually sees

Not very much, and not very far. Understanding the first eight weeks of visual development changes what you put in front of your…

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