Jazak’Allah khair for sharing this wonderful post. Its such practical education and every body can learn more.

May Allah give us the tawfeeq to practice on what we have learnt from this post insha’Allah .

Once again, jazak’Allah khair.

Don’t be sad

Insha’Allah I’ll share mine. Today’s Khutba was directed mainly towards the parents. How should we raise our children? The answer is with Islam, and Islamic means and methods. The first thing the Sheikh mentioned was to NAME your child with a beautiful Islamic name. The Prophet, SAW encouraged us in hadith to name children after the Prophets, or to give them beautiful Islamic names. He, SAW, also said the two names Allah SWT loves most are Abdullah and AburRahman. The Prophet SAW changed many people’s names who converted to Islam beacuse their names were not proper, or Islamic. The Sheikh regrettfully noted that today it’s the other way around, that Muslims are changing their beautiful Islamic names, or shortening them to imitate other’s names (i.e. the disbelievers). He said that in a hadith that the Prophet, SAW said on the day of judgement you will be called by your name and your father’s name (another hadith says mother’s names), so therefore the Prophet SAW advised us to choose good names for our children (and in some cases ourselves, i..e changing it).
The Sheikh then went on to mention four characteristics/traits that we should make our children adopt. The first three were 1)love other Muslims, and want for them what you want for yourself 2)control anger 3) always be honest, truthful and frank. The fourth escapes my mind at the moment. Basically he stressed the importance of raising our children (for those who have children) and also ourselves, on Islam and through Islamic means. He said that we will be responsible for those under our care (i.e. children) on the day of judgement and will be asked about them,and what we did for them islamically.
I thought the talk was very benecificial and insha’Allah I can keep this in mind for later on, if Allah SWT blesses me with children of my own.

JazaakAllahu Khair for reading

Wa’alaykum Asalaam

Jummah Mubarak to all of my muslim brothers and sisters out there!!