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Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Jun 3, 2026.

Parents must structure summer for children

EPIC · Nadim Bashir
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In one sentence

Parents should treat summer as a structured opportunity to give children time, faith formation, manners, and useful skills, because their upbringing is a divine responsibility and lasting legacy.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Frames parenting as accountability for blessings and responsibility before Allah.
  2. Explains that parents, not institutions, own their children's tarbiyah, using Quranic examples and Luqman.
  3. Urges both mothers and fathers to spend quality time with their children.
  4. Calls for a balanced summer structure including worship, learning, exercise, chores, meals, and masjid attendance.
  5. Emphasizes teaching akhlaq and adab at home, in the masjid, and in public settings.
  6. Concludes with responsibilities before privileges, skill-building, age-appropriate correction, and children as legacy.
Try this week
Spend regular quality time with children, including time led by fathers.
Create a balanced summer schedule with sleep, Quran, reading, exercise, chores, family meals, and masjid attendance.
Monitor children’s prayer, doubts, screen time, gadgets, and exposure to prohibited content.
Teach respectful behavior and adab at home and in places such as the masjid, library, and museum.
Connect privileges to fulfilled responsibilities.
Help each child begin developing a useful skill, even if learning takes several summers.
Correct children patiently and adjust discipline to each child’s age and temperament.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“summer cannot become about no structure no Quran no discipline no tarbiya do whatever you want to do this is not what summer is”
EPIC · Plano, TX
Play from 9:52
“you teach them by giving them time you don't give them time they will never learn”
EPIC · Plano, TX
Play from 14:40
“your legacy is your children your children are your legacy”
EPIC · Plano, TX
Play from 14:56
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Summer should be more than late nights and unlimited screens; it can help children grow in faith, character, relationships, and useful skills. Parents, not the masjid, school, or Quran teacher alone, carry the main responsibility for children’s upbringing, and both mothers and fathers should give them meaningful time. Families can build a balanced routine with sleep, Quran, reading, exercise, chores, meals, and masjid attendance, while teaching respectful behavior at home and in public. Parents should connect privileges to responsibilities, adapt correction to each child’s age, and remember that well-raised children are a lasting legacy.

  1. What part of our summer routine helps us grow closest as a family?
  2. Which skill would you like to start learning this summer?
  3. How can we show better adab at home and in the masjid?
Where it was given

The masjid

East Plano Islamic Center4700 14th Street, Plano, TX 75074Jumu'ah First Jumu'ah 12:30 PM · second Jumu'ah 2:00 PMKhateebNadim BashirMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at EPIC165 khutbahs
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