Parents must make home a loving community
“Our home should not become a hotel.”
Parents must actively and patiently nurture their children's faith and human bonds, especially by limiting device influence, sacrificing time, and making home a loving community, so iman can survive across generations.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Parents are responsible for transmitting iman and religious practice to the next generation.
- Social media and unrestricted devices can shape children's identities, attention, health, and faith.
- Tarbiyah is gradual nourishment requiring love, time, monitoring, and sacrifice.
- Parents should replace passive device time with conversation, play, meals, park visits, and masjid participation.
- Homes should be places of affection, intergenerational connection, manners, and service, not hotels.
- The khutbah closes by urging families to protect themselves from Jahannam and help children rise above contemporary trials.
In the khateeb's words
“we have to take our active power in upbringing our children and if you study and you understand how children work they they need love they need mahabba they need time”
“our children are not livestock we let them graze wherever they want there are precious gifts that we have to look after tarbiyah”
“you have to be the substitute for social media you have to talk to them they have to be able to approach you”
“our home should not become a hotel it should become a place of mahabba and mawada where we spend time together”
For the dinner table
A child’s faith and character grow slowly through daily love, attention, and guidance. Phones and social media can influence children deeply, so parents should monitor them and make time for real conversations, play, meals, and worship together. Our homes should feel like places of affection and connection, not places where everyone retreats alone. Sometimes caring for a child’s faith means sacrificing personal time or extra worship. When families invest in these bonds, they help protect iman and pass it faithfully to the next generation.
- What is one activity we can do together without phones?
- When have you learned something important from a parent or grandparent?
- What helps you feel comfortable asking our family a difficult question?
The masjid
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