May Allah reward all the brothers and sisters’ who’ve sacrificed their lives and high paying professions to teach Islam to the masses, with Al-Firdaws. May Allah forgive their shortcomings and raise their levels in the sight of Allah.
The parents who backbite these teachers by calling them ‘bearded bigots’, ‘over-acting for being a woman and covering like a black-box and teaching Islam’, are sadly finally forced to call these ‘black-boxes with Niqab’ when their teenage daughters start saying with the British accent, ‘I don’t believe in Islaaam’. Same with parents of teenage boys when they stop praying altogether.
I’m saying this with a sad experience brothers and sisters. Take your and your families’ Islam seriously. Don’t think that these secular Non-Muslim school and colleges will not attack the ideology of your children. They will and they are already attacking it. The damage to the Ummah has been done. Your love for the convent schools and hi-fi colleges will all go down when you realize that your child no longer believes in Islam, or starts thinking that ‘Islam/Quran/Prophet Muhammad ﷺ have mistakes’.
From LKG to 12th, the only Islamic teaching he/she have received (in 99% cases) is the one-hour Quran class in the evening, without knowledge of Imaan, without meanings of the Quran, without clarifying doubts etc. After 14-15 years of studying with liberal values like, ‘all religions are equal’, ‘just be good religion is not so important’, ‘science is the standard’, ‘men and woman are equal’, ‘Shariah is strict we need freedom’, do you think you crying and calling an Ustadh/Ustadha and telling, ‘Please come and talk for an hour to my child…’ will change the 14-15 years of rubbish they’ve learnt.
Two aspects of Tarbiyyah are important: The second aspect- Sending them to Muslim Majority or Islamic Schools. The first and most important- Having Islam at home and the parents being the teachers and motivators.
Also, no one on this earth says, Islamic/Muslim schools are 100% perfect. They have mistakes, but any day, they’re 200% better than the schools run by Non-Muslims. The parents who tell that, Muslims can’t manage schools well, no discipline in Muslim majority schools’ kids, no proper English there, are the ones who are either blind or are acting blind to what is happening in Non-Muslim schools.
Sending your kids to Non-Muslim schools and telling your kids, ‘Non-Muslim schools are better’ is the first step towards ‘apostasy’ (leaving Islam).
Why? Because- You’re indirectly saying that, ‘those who know The Qur’an and Sunnnah are imperfect idiots who can’t run a school and those who abuse Allah by doing Shirk and Kufr and hate Nabi ﷺ are better’!
Imaan is more important than anything else. And in all Muslim schools Alhamdulillah, they ‘at least’ keep mentioning ‘Allah and Rasoolullah’, they allow the children to pray Zuhr and Asr easily, they praise girls who do the Hijab, they teach them the importance of Islam. All this even if in a weak form done for 5-10-15 years does have an affect on the child. Think about it?
After that, it is very necessary for Muslim parents to continuously learn Islam even at a slow pace. Before marriage, the necessary questions guys and girls should ask each other is, ‘How will you put our children to sleep?’, if he/she tells, “Alhamdulillah I’ve properly read the, ‘Stories of Prophets’, ‘Stories of The Quran’, ‘Seerah of Nabi ﷺ’, ‘Lives of Sahaba’ and I will use them to put them to sleep.” this is the man/woman who can be the shepard for your children!
Sorry for speaking in so much length. We’re seeing children become atheists at an alarming phase!!! I hope you can understand the pain and trauma we as Islamic teachers have to go through when parents call us to rectify the porridge after they burnt it for 14-15 years. My words may be harsh, but what is being spoken about is much more serious.
Quran: “Our obligation is no more than to convey the message clearly.”
وَمَا عَلَيْنَآ اِلَّا الْبَلٰغُ الْمُبِيْنُ!!!
Saheehus-Seerah 