In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful

by Sahibzada Hafiz Muhammad A Wahid

As Islamic scholars or teachers Muslim parents who see no need to send their children to a full-time or weekend school often confront us. Sometimes you will even meet people who haven't even taught their children anything about Islam at all! They often give the lame argument: "I don't want to impose anything on my child" or "I am very busy", or "my child already knows enough about Islam" or "I will let them make their own decision." In other words they're really saying, "I don't want to teach them about Islam for whatever reason and I will let the Kuffar influence impose on them without giving them a good grounding in the best way of life first."

How many teenagers have we seen who know little to nothing about Islam while their parents act as if they are good Muslims!

Another issue of concern is that, following the usual practice, these same negligent parents may try to marry their son or daughter to a person of the same ethnic background not realizing that their own child is like a non-Muslim so it is unfair to the prospective spouse who may have been raised in a home where Islam was practiced. It's like marrying a non-Muslim in all practical aspects and sows the seeds for conflict.

Many Muslims, blinded by wealth and its achievement, come to the West hopeful of riches and becoming like what they so admire. So when their children are "Australians" or "Europeans" they secretly feel great joy that their children are living out their own secret fantasy.

Well, as we know, age usually teaches wisdom and many are the parents you will meet who become "religious" in their 40's or 50's and lament the fact that their children lead such bad lifestyles. It doesn't help to scold the parents then because it would do no good. When a person is remorseful, Allah has promised to forgive them. But what of the younger parents whose children is still small and who are headed down the same dangerous path? Is there a way to warn them before their children and descendants lose Islam forever?

Below is an actual story we received from a concerned brother who lived the Australian dream and lost his children to kufr in the process. Perhaps a Muslim parent who is feeling like letting the Kuffar establish his or her children's values will read these words and change his or her course of action before they are old one day and full of sorrow for neglecting the one greatest gift they should have given their children: the chance to go to Paradise when this short life is over.

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