Tuesday 6 September 2016

IT IS WAJIB (OBLIGATORY) TO TRY TO GUIDE ONE'S CHILDREN TOWARDS THE RIGHT PATH

Hazrat Ibrahim AS prayed to Allah Ta'alah,
"ومن ذرّیاتنا امة مسلمة لک..."

O' Allah, please let our next generation be Muslim. Please let them be obedient to you. In this prayer he has hinted that a Muslim's job is not by becoming a Muslim himself. It is obligatory upon every Muslims to worry about what path his children are adopting. There are so many Muslims now who pray Namaz (Salah) regularly in the first row, who read Quran regularly, who follow the religion piously, but who do not care which path their offspring is adopting.

Quran Karim says,
یا یھاالذین امنو قو انفسکم و اھلیکم نار

O those who believe! Protect yourself and your family from the fire. Just like it is obligatory upon us to be Muslims, it is also obligatory upon to make every effort to ensure that our next generation remains Muslim. 

Adapted from the talk "Hazrat Ibrahim AS and the building of House of Allah" by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani DB

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