Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 4, 2025.
Parents must nurture their children’s faith
SDCC · Masum Warmer Azhari
“We need to teach them not only reading, writing and arithmetic.”
In one sentence
Parents must protect and nurture their children’s Islamic faith through integrated education that develops belief, character, knowledge, worship, and balanced personal growth.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Children are gifts from Allah, ongoing charity, and a responsibility before God.
- Parents must protect children’s aqidah, with faith preceding detailed religious practice and study.
- Islamic education should combine academic knowledge with tarbiyah, adab, morality, and identity.
- Children need answers to fundamental questions about creation, purpose, duty, and ultimate destiny.
- Islamic schools provide role models, supportive peers, worship, learning, play, and a faith-centered environment.
- The khutbah closes with prayers for forgiveness, Muslims, and oppressed people in Palestine and elsewhere.
Try this week
Teach children Islamic belief and discuss who created us, why we exist, and where we are going.
Combine academic learning with Islamic knowledge, tarbiyah, adab, morality, and values.
Provide children with an Islamic environment and positive teachers and peers as role models.
Balance study and worship with rest, wholesome play, and activities that nourish the whole person.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 42:49-50Children are presented as gifts granted by Allah.
Quran 18:46Wealth and children are described as worldly adornment and a trial.
Quran 64:15Wealth and children are described as worldly adornment and a trial.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“our children are a great blessings because they are considered as a sadaqa jariya ongoing charity prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said whenever a person dies all of his good deeds come to an end except three things”
“This is how they taught Iman even before teaching them Quran.”
“we need to teach them not only reading, writing and arithmetic. At the same time we need to teach them Islam or religion.”
“Everything they will get as a complete package in Islamic school only. That's why we are emphasizing Islamic knowledge, Islamic school system.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminds families that children are gifts from Allah and an ongoing charity, but also a trust for which parents are responsible. It urges parents to protect their children’s iman and teach belief before piling on other knowledge. It presents Islamic education as a blend of academic learning, tarbiyah, adab, morality, worship, and positive role models. The goal is a balanced child whose mind, heart, soul, and body are nourished through knowledge, faith, and wholesome play.
- What big question about life or faith would you like us to discuss together?
- How can our family make learning, worship, and play part of a healthy balance?
- Who is someone whose character you would like to learn from, and why?
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