will become a cause of spreading adultery. Due to adultery, the girl’s family will be disgraced and as a result, a fight will break out between the families resulting in far serious consequences which are quite apparent nowadays.

 (Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 5, pp. 8)

O devotees of Rasool! Out of the millions of bounties blessed to us by Allah Almighty, one great bounty is also offspring. Offspring is such a bounty which brings about happiness in the home. Pious offspring is such a blessing that becomes a support for their parents in their old age. Noble offspring becomes a means of salvation for their parents after their demise. When Allah Almighty blesses someone with this blessing (of offspring), then the parents get overjoyed. However at the same time, their test also begins. It is now up to the parents whether they succeed in this test by providing their children with a Madani upbringing or not.

Remember! Children normally imitate the habits of their parents. If the parents are steadfast on Shari’ah and passionate about acquiring Islamic knowledge, then their children also tread on the path of piety and become a means for their parents’ salvation, forgiveness and good name. On the other hand, if parents are used to bad habits themselves, then their children will also get used to the same bad habits. Such offspring does not become a means of salvation, but a means of destruction.

Remember! Correct upbringing of children is the responsibility of both parents. Whereas, the father tries to avoid this responsibility by making an excuse of earning livelihood and shifts this responsibility onto the mother. And the mother considers the father to be the actual responsible for the upbringing of children while presenting the excuse of carrying out domestic chores. As a result, such offspring goes out of the control of parents and becomes a means of trouble for them.

Therefore, parents should fulfil their responsibility by playing their role in making their children pious and prominent figure of the society from their childhood, as whatever is taught in the childhood embeds firmly in the nature of the child.