Schedule for the Halqahs [learning sessions] of the weekly Ijtima’ (overseas), 27 May 2021

1.   Short Bayan on different topics: 5 minutes

2.   Memorising Du’a: 5 minutes

3.   Fikr-e-Madinah: 5 minutes

4.   Total duration: 15 minutes

The remaining etiquettes of raising children

*   Parents are role models for their children. The child observes their actions and attempts to adopt them himself, therefore, if there is a disparity between the actions and words of the parents, it will have a negative impact upon the child. For example, if the father is at home and tells his child to go outside and say, ‘Dad is not at home.’ The father will think this is an inconsequential thing and forget about it, but rather than forgetting it, the child, in his undeveloped mind, will definitely think that lying is not a bad thing, which is why his father uttered it. If the father was to now advise his son not to lie even a thousand times, he will not leave lying because he has observed his father lying.

*   Children are sometimes silenced by saying, ‘The cat is coming, the dog is coming,’ etc., but we do not realise that we are teaching the child to lie like this, because these statements are often in opposition to reality.

*   Likewise, if the mother uses the sharpness of her tongue and is quarrelsome, this will have an effect upon the daughter, and she will follow in her mother’s footsteps. (Madani Muzakarah, Cassette Number, 13-45)

*   Full attention should be given to the upbringing of children from childhood, for example, when the child is at the age of drinking milk, make Zikr of ‘Allah Allah’ in front him, so that his first words are ‘Allah.’ When observing the mischief of their child, instead of