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Kiddies Update
Posted under kids by Radiant Lightالسَّلامْ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَ بَرَكاته
Apologies for not updating, my brother is in hospital, so I’m doing the daily runs to and fro. I will update as much as I can inshaAllah.
I will continue with the etiquette’s with the acquaintance at a later time inshaAllah, just wanted to write a personal post today about the kids.
Alhumdulillah we’ve finally set into a proper routine, we started learning 40 ahadeeth with meaning, along side the seerah, but cos of the bugs and stuff going around, many of them take days off, and getting them caught up is a task and a half! Today one of the 4 year old says she didnt attend madrassah yesterday because she had a “headache” … heh.
Which reminds me, the two most talkative in my class are a pair of 4 year olds, they sit and talk to each other behind their Ahsanal Qawaaids, like i don’t notice them, but honestly what do 4 year olds have so much to talk about?!
One of the girls asked me yeterday:
“Apa, If your a muslim, does it mean you can only travel to Pakistan?”
I was like “umm no, why?”
She answers “well thats the only place everyone I know goes!
To leave the best to the last:
Every so occasionally the kids want to know why I’m not married yet, they seem to care more than I do.
Anyway, I say to them, that its not easy you can’t just marry anyone, and mentioned the five qualities that Islam mentions, that the person must be a good person and behave in an islamic way.
So one of the girls says “But Apa! They could just lie! They could just pretend to be good but not be good!”
I say “well thats where the biggest problem lies isn’t it, but we just have to trust Allah 
, and remember that no matter what happens its what He wanted to happen to us”
“well that’s it then, I’m not getting married”
And so agree 90% of the class!
Duas Requested
السَّلامْ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَ بَرَكاته
AA-
Cute story. Masha’Allah
, kids have such a beautiful fitrah…how I wish I could be a kid again!
Speaking of marriage and teaching kids, I’ve always argued with my wife that one of the essentials is to expose them to the issue of multiple marriages (ie. polygamy). Of course, I always have to explain to her that I’m not trying to laying the groundwork for marrying again…LOL!
But I seriously beleive that one of the problems with our current generation is that we’ve only been exposed to the western style family (marriage=one man, one woman) and anything else is simply repugnant.
I think that if we started to teach our children at a younger age that polygamy is an Islamic institution that ought not be rejected purely on the reasoning of the western mind, and should be embraced instead of scoffed at, we would start seeing less abuse of it and alot more harmony in our societies.
Sorry for the rant, but your post reminded me of my discussions with my wife from back when she used to also teach young teen girls and how she would address the issue of marriage….
Wa Alaykumassalam
We covered polygamy in seerah, and most of the kids were like woah!
The older girls understand it more and alhumdulillah, see nothing wrong with it.
Its true, breaking the western concepts formed in their heads is difficult at times as thats what they’re exposed to 24/7.
Strange, but fascinating is the curiosity of children. With their inquisitiveness and daring innocence, they come up with questions and ideas that seldom we think of. When they ask us, we feel to answer their questions…and their questions make us convinced that the art of questioning in children is so wondrous and inspiring.
May Allah
(SWT) bless your brother, with health. Aa’meen!
When sick, one should say this du’a: “Allahumma Rabban Naasi Azhibil Baasa Washfi Antash Shaafi La Shifa’a Illa Shifa’uka Shifa’an La Yugadiru Saqaman” (Sahih Bukhari & Muslim)
The meaning of the du’a is: “Ay Allah
Logon ke Rab is bimari ko door farma, aur shifa dey, tu hi shifa dene wala hai, shifa sirf teri hi shifa hai, aisi shifta ata farma jo kisi marz ko na baqi rakhey.”
Br. Abdul Jawad
lol mashallah this post is funny!
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