We cry to fulfill all the needs of our children and provide them the best of food, clothing, and shelter. To give them the best education, so that they may become ‘successful’ individuals, we admit them to the ‘best’ of the schools. Will children be successful in both, the Duniya (present world) and the Akhirah (Life after Death) by attending these ‘best’ schools ?
We adults would not li ke to be in an environment which is un-islamic, eventhough we are able to defend our faith and our choices. But we push our children in such an environment, not just for hours or days, but for months and years in fact decades.
Children spend about 6-8 hours a day in school, which is more than 75% of the time they stay awake - the time in which we can educate and do tarbiyah of our children. Today the winds of obscene and vulgar culture have swept over the entire globe. Social conditions are becoming bad to worse; teenage promiscuity, dating, vulgar movies, serials and songs and shameless fashions. ‘Obscenity is no longer considered obscene!’ Because we want to ‘educate’ our children we send our children to such environments where children compete with each other in being as ‘modern’ as possible, even if it means wearing minimum clothes, drinking, going out for movies, rave parties, etc.
We need to enroll our children in Islamic Schools. It’s time the Muslim community seriously thought about this very crucial problem that is plaguing our children. We need Islamic Schools for proper growth and development of our children. It is our duty to provide our children an environment where they are surrounded with positive influences – Islamic influences. If we profess to be Muslims, we have to obey Allah’s command and we have to do all we can to save our children from the Fire. Children spend most of their productive time in school. If we send them to un-islamic environment where friends discuss boyfriends, girlfriends and movies, it is possible that in spite of our best efforts at home our children may get affected by these wrong trends and influences right in front of our very eyes! It is like pushing our children into a muddy puddle and still wishing that they don't get dirty!