education, health and safety vs religion

[cricketplaya]

@fat_spartan

I’m linving in Canada. While I think it’s important to have safety, education and health, having deen is also important, perhaps more important if we look at the really big picture. Of course you can’t expect someone who grows up here to have the same cultural values they would if they grew up somewhere else. That being said, safety, education and health don’t have to be mutually exclusive with having deen in one’s life. In fact, I see people here who follow deen more than people who grew up in Pakistan.

Agreed 100%.. I’ve seen in Pakistan, masjids are not even block apart, forget about daily prayers, they don’t go for JUMMAH even! Alhamdulillah, Allah raises pious people in every corner of this world. No need for special language or cultures to groom a kid **for **instilling deen.

a shaykh once said:

“The way I see it, if your state with Allah is good, and you raise your children well, then they’ll come out well–wherever you live. But if your state with Allah isn’t good, or you don’t raise your children well, then they’ll struggle–wherever you live.”

*the state= in all our affairs from the most basic to the most complex matters of life.