with religious environment, then their children will also be blessed with the same attributes.

Instead of doing Zikr, reciting Salat-‘Alan-Nabi, reciting the Holy Quran, performing worship and gaining Islamic knowledge; unfortunately, nowadays women spend most of their time in backbiting each other, tale-telling, wandering unnecessarily in the markets, watching films, dramas, listening to songs and music, reading novels and digests, misusing computers, mobile phones, internet etc., committing impermissible acts being influenced by the social media and adopting latest fashion; whereas the rest of the time they spend in doing domestic chores. As a result, the bad effects of these non-practicing mothers, who remain heedless of reforming their children, directly transfer to the next generations as well. It has been seen that children of such mothers become gamblers, swindlers, terrorists, addicts of hemp (drug), vagabonds, thieves, robbers, etc. When these people commit crimes they are arrested, and sometimes, they are even sentenced to death. Let’s listen to an admonitory parable of such criminal:

It is stated on page 17 of 188-page book namely, ‘Tarbiyyat-e-Awlad’ [Upbringing of Children], published by the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami, Maktaba-tul-Madinah: Once, a dangerous robber was arrested and was convicted of robberies and murders. As a result, he was sentenced to be hanged. As the time of execution approached, he was asked about his last wish. He expressed the wish to meet his mother. Hence his mother was called. As soon as he saw his mother, he pounced on [i.e. attacked] her, clawing and beating her. The security personnel on duty managed to get the injured mother freed from her cruel son.

When asked, why he did such an inappropriate act, he replied that it was his own mother who had led him to the gallows. Going into some detail, he said: In my childhood, I stole a pencil of a child at school, brought it home and showed it to my mother. Instead of developing hatred against theft in me, she smiled and then got silent. Immature as I was, I assumed that I had done something very good! Encouraged, I started stealing more pencils and note books. After I matured, my habit of stealing things had become very firm. I then started committing robberies recklessly. During some looting sprees, I