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Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Parents must give children religious guidance

Toronto Islamic Centre · Kamil Ahmad

“Fulfilling our responsibility towards our children does not mean providing them with a shelter and that's it.”

The khateeb, at 17:36

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In one sentence

Because time, health, youth, and children are temporary blessings, believers must use them purposefully and fulfill their responsibility to raise children with religious guidance.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Frames life as a finite number of days and urges reflection on wasted time.
  2. Explains that health and free time are blessings most people fail to value.
  3. Warns against wasting unstructured time and redirects believers toward worship and beneficial activity.
  4. Shifts to parents’ responsibility for children beyond food, shelter, and worldly education.
  5. Calls for religious tarbiyah, attention to children’s influences, and sustained parental effort.
  6. Presents righteous children’s supplication as an enduring investment after parents’ deaths.
Try this week
Use summer free time for worship, learning, and beneficial activities.
Teach children the fundamentals of Islam and provide intentional religious upbringing.
Pay attention to children’s schooling, companions, surroundings, and influences.
Persist through the sacrifices of parenting with the Hereafter in view.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 63:11An appointed lifespan cannot be delayed when its term arrives.
Quran 94:7-8When free from tasks, believers should strive and turn their attention toward Allah.
Quran 59:18Believers should examine what they have prepared for the Hereafter.
Quran 66:6The family must be protected from spiritual ruin and the Fire.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“each day that goes by is one step closer to your grave each day that goes by is one step closer to that ultimate reality”
Toronto Islamic Centre · Toronto, ON
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“fulfilling our responsibility towards our children does not mean providing them with a shelter and that's it”
Toronto Islamic Centre · Toronto, ON
Play from 17:36
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah reminds us that time, health, youth, and free time are blessings that do not last forever. Summer holidays can become an opportunity for worship, learning, and beneficial activities instead of wasted time. Parents are responsible for more than food, shelter, and school; they must guide their children’s religious growth and pay attention to their influences. This work takes sacrifice, but a righteous child’s ongoing dua can become a continuing source of reward after a parent’s death.

  1. What is one beneficial thing you could do with your free time this week?
  2. Which part of caring for children needs the most attention in our family, and why?
  3. How could our family help one another become people who remember parents with dua?
Where it was given

The masjid

Toronto Islamic Centre817 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4W 2G9Jumu'ah 1st Khutbah: 1:30 PM | 2nd Khutbah: 2:30 PMKhateebKamil AhmadMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Toronto Islamic Centre33 khutbahs
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