Raising Righteous Generations - III

Many girls desert their books soon after they finish formal education
and do not read anymore. Thus, they relapse into a state of ignorance
because theydo not have anything to do with books. They devote
themselves entirely to caring about their clothes, adornment, and
sampling the good things in life. However, these interests are
temporal and related to the worldly life only.
Muslim women should bear in mind that they are members of the Muslim
community. Thus, they wield influence on it and arealso affected by
it. They are not socially marginal or unimportant.It is not befitting
for a Muslim woman to have a negative outlook in life or to be
dependenton others. In fact, having such an attitude points towards an
ungrateful personality, since it shows an attempt to exchange what is
better for that which is base. The Ummah (Muslim nation) waits for its
grateful sonsand daughter to restore its past glories.
Some points to keep in mind about Muslim women and their contribution
to society:
• Muslim women should participate in all useful activities. Therefore,
they should always consider the saying of 'Umar "Do not be imitators
who say, that if people act well, we will actwell, and if they act
unjustly, we will act unjustly too. However, resolve on acting well if
people act well, and if they act unjustly, do not follow suit."
• Women have a mission of raising future generations that aims at
advancing the society. This mission is fulfilled first by fulfilling
the rights of neighbors. They should educate uneducated women with the
knowledge theyneed for their religion and life. Bydoing so, they will
do a favor to the future generations. Neighbors, therefore, will not
gather to gossip, but to broaden the awareness of Muslim families,and
develop their superficial and naïve interests into sublime horizons.
Thus, Muslim women could turn every conversation into a purposeful
talk. Brilliant Muslim women would even utilize empty talk by drawing
lessons from it and reflecting. on it. In addition, righteous
neighbors should ponder the best method to utilize in bringingup their
children and solving their problems collectively.
• Women should do their best to foster cooperation among neighbors.
For example, a child used to steal money from his father's pocket and
spend it on a group of his friends who encouraged him to commit that
misdeed. His mother came to know about this through her neighbor, who
advised her about what was happening. She helped her to overcome the
crisis by studying the problem and looking into its roots, then by
containing the problem and finding a suitable solution for it.
• One of the duties of Muslim women is to maintain good relations with
their relatives. To that end, they should maintain kinship relations,
visit sick relatives, and participate in happyoccasions, as well as
doing other good deeds that would diffuse the spirit of cooperation
and love. This helps generations to grow up following the principles
of Islam and its supreme values by dealing kindly and affectionately
with others following the example of their mothers. Muslim women
should encourage all the good initiativesof their children, so that
they would relish the success and excellence of their children. On the
contrary, some foolish women go out to public arenas to cheer sport
games, like football, basketball and soccer players. This, in addition
to being totally unlawful, indicates that women are unaware of the
mission they should undertake.
• A mother should let her children talk to her. She should listen to
their opinions and appreciate their successful deeds without getting
bored. Mothers should know that children who are considered by some
people as'talkative' may have a great future ahead of them. Their
frequent questions prove their powerful sense of observation and
express their desire to learn. Do not forget that guiding children and
encouraging them can have good results.
There was a well-spoken lecturer who would greatly impress girls who
listened to her speak. The factor that greatly contributed toher
talent was that some of her neighbors as well as some of her father's
acquaintances would listen to her speeches and encourage her to talk
even though she was less than six years of age.
Therefore, we should say good words to little children, because saying
a good word is an act of charity. Purposeful guidance is fruitful.
Sincere words go directly to the heart.
• One of the main tasks of Muslimwomen is to contribute to fortifying
the younger Muslim generations with genuine Islamicculture and the
sound creed. They should not let frivolous women lead our younger
generations astray and utilize every available means to achieve their
goal of ruining them.
• Women are required to contribute to the prosperity of the younger
generations by making use of their lifetime and their knowledge about
which they will be questioned. However,they are not required to commit
themselves to a full-time job thatwill lead them to neglect their
duties towards their husbands and children.
When working women return home, they are fatigued and overburdened
with the concerns of work. How can they benefit their children who
need an affectionate touch from them, but get nothing but a scolding
because their mothers are exhausted and want to rest after suffering a
long day of work? Women who do this are mistaken, because they have to
prioritize their life. This address isdirected to righteous women who
have a sound creed and are conscious about wasting the rights of
Allaah The Almighty and mixing the truth with falsehood.
• Conscientious Muslim women deal with the reality with sagacity and
care. They should remember that an objective of the Sharee'ah is to
preserve religion, mental soundness, lineages, lives, and property.
Anything that harms any of thosefive things must be stopped. Muslim
women should spread virtue, condemn devilish thoughts and clarify
their misguidance and deviation to their children and family members.
The wicked enemy must be faced with sound planning and counteraction.
If Muslims do not exert efforts to reinforce righteous manners and
firmly establish the sound creed, they will regret when it is too
late. This is because myths and low ideals will have been enhanced and
the younger Muslim generations will suffer their evil consequences.
In the past, Muslim women were distinguished for entertaining their
children with stories that amused them and instilled Islamic
principles in their minds.
Why, then, do cultured Muslim women leave their children to be victims
of stories written by immoral people and disbelievers, who distort
Islamic history and attack Islamic principles?
Let Muslim women contribute to print and audio mass media as much as
they can. Even Islamic songs (Anasheed) should be composed for our
children to sing instead of letting them repeat songs that have no
moral content. This will make our children sing pure words that
reflect the bright image and supreme principles of Islam and will
attract the hearts of Muslim children to virtues.
The same thing applies to magazines, stories, and novels that tell how
people deceive eachother to obtain money. They inspire our children
with mistaken values and thoughts of violence, irresponsibility,
undutifulness to parents, as well as other bad morals. Muslim women
should make use of thesemediums so as to be capable of educating their
children with what is good, develop their creed, cultivate their
minds, and entertain them at the same time.
The most dangerous channel of the mass media is the internet and
satellite TV channels. It rivals the parents in guiding the children
through a well-planned policy of attraction and invasion. The human
devils are those who furnish the television with everything that
destroys virtues. The former French president, De Gaulle, once talked
about the influence of television, saying, "Give me this screen and I
will change the French people."
Many families have given up their role in raising their children to
adopt the Islamic creed and have let the television guide them and sow
in them the concepts and ideologies that are alien to the Islamic
creed and culture. In this context, we understand the duty that
cultured Muslim women should fulfill. They should utilize their
potential. If they have the ability, they should write stories,
compose Islamic songs, or write dialogues or articles to save their
children from the tools of domestic and foreign destruction.
Dear Muslim sisters,
Do not excuse yourselves by saying that your body is weak, that you
have many obligations to fulfill, or that you are always pressed for
time, since the upright Sharee'ah instructs Muslims to make utmost use
of their time, health, and wealth. It was narrated on the authority of
Ibn 'Abbaas that he quoted the Messenger of Allaah as having said:
"Take advantage of five [matters] before [the advent of] five
[matters]: your youth before your old age; your health before your
sickness; your richness before your poverty; your free time before
your preoccupation; and your life before your death."
If women organize their daily activities and make good use of every
second of their time and not waste it in needless talk, theywill never
be heard complaining about time restraints. They should pay attention
to their duties as callers to what is good and work as good examples
for others to follow. They should enrich awareness in the fields of
upbringing and health in a way that brings benefit to the Muslim
generations and Islamic society at large. They should also exert their
utmost effort to find Islamicalternatives for the massive momentum of
intellectual attacks. They should further defend religion in a society
of wicked people who continue to scheme and work to distract Muslims
from adhering to their religion.
Muslim women should not relent to transient comforts, needless
sleeping, and laziness that has affected many of them. They are
advised to actively fulfill their duty toward their Ummah (Muslim
nation). They are required to do all that they can tobring up
righteous generations. They should utilize their time in useful ways
and employ each suitable opportunity. It is hoped that they will
substantially contribute to removing darkness from the Ummah and
communicate virtue to the futuregenerations. Otherwise, our hopes will
be confined to our chests and our generations will be at the rear of
the caravan instead of taking its lead.

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