Raise children for faith, not just careers
“Do you have any difficulty with your prayer?”
Parents should prepare children not only for academic success but also to develop an independent, loving faith that guides their character, choices, and contribution to society.
The khutbah in 8 steps
- Parents invest heavily in schooling and future careers because they want their children to succeed.
- Islam allows families to pursue worldly success while preserving faith and moral responsibility.
- Parents should help children engage confidently with diverse society while remaining grounded in their identity.
- Luqman's loving guidance illustrates how parents can teach faith through a trusting relationship.
- Children should develop personal faith that guides them even when parents are absent.
- Parents should ask about spiritual and emotional wellbeing alongside grades and career plans.
- Daily study, work, and future careers can become acts of worship when pursued excellently and ethically.
- Children should value the afterlife and their service to Allah above grades, salaries, or titles.
In the khateeb's words
“My responsibility is that this faith become his own faith. He must know Allah. He must love Allah.”
“Do you have any difficulty with your prayer? Do you have any difficulty of reading Quran?”
“their worth are not just grade at school. and their value or the worth is not just the salary that they're going to earn”
For the dinner table
As we prepare for school, the khateeb reminded us to care for our children’s faith and character alongside their education. Islam allows us to pursue success while staying close to Allah and helping other people. He encouraged parents to guide with love, as Luqman did, so children learn to choose what is right even when their parents are not there. Children need room to ask questions, understand their religion, and make their faith their own. Studying and working with excellence, sincerity, and fairness can become acts of worship, and our worth rests in being servants of Allah rather than in grades, money, or titles.
- What is something you could do at school with the intention of pleasing Allah and helping someone?
- What question about Islam would you like us to explore together?
- What could we celebrate about one another this week besides grades or achievements?
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