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Almighty Allah says in Chapter 66 Verse 6: “O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [appointed] angels, harsh and severe; they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded.”
I invite you all to please share here how we may protect ourselves and our families from a fire (hell).
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^^^ Teach your children to question whatever comes to them and do not accept anything that is illogically, irrational, impure, lies, unjust, inhumane, contrary to human nature, and absurd, regardless of wherever it comes from (even if it comes from you). Tell them that nothing can come from Allah or Prophet (SAW) that is illogical, irrational, impure, lies, unjust, inhumane, contrary to human nature, or absurd. Tell them the story of Ibrahim (AS) who rejected absurdities and show them numerous ayahs of Quran where Allah invites people to think and analyse to know him and accept truth. Tell them that to always accept truth and reject lies, even if it comes from you (it means anyone regardless of their sanctity).
Tell them that Allah does not care or love Blind followers and Zombies, whose faith is meaningless … as they do not know what they believe but are following blindly without analysing, knowing or understanding. Tell them that only Shaitan (Iblees) loves blind followers and Zombies, as he can only find devotees from those who are blind followers and Zombies … as it is these people who can accept and follow lies and deception of Shaitan blindly … but his lies and deception gets exposed when people ask questions. Tell them that army of Shaitan (Iblis) are all around, who may look pious and scholars, but are there to lie and deceive ignorant willing to buy their lies and deception blindly and follow them like Zombies.
If your family would understand what I mentioned above, then they would never going to get misguided or deceived … and if they would follow that then they would save themselves from fire (InshaAllah).
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… well, if you follow someone (or some beliefs) blindly like Zombie then regardless of you are following truth or lies, there is no credit to you, as you did not even put any effort or tried to follow truth, you just followed what you are told without thinking, and thus with no credit to you, how can you expect any reward from Allah after death?
On the other hand, if you follow after questioning and getting convinced (that you are following truth) then regardless of what you follow is true or false, full credit goes to you for putting effort and trying to follow something true, hence you would get appreciation and reward from Allah for trying to follow truth, to the best of your ability.
I hope you get what I am saying. 
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Well I am thinking who are included in “families”? and
What if a person is reverted to Islam but other family members are not?
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The Ayah is addressing Ahle-e-Aiman not all the human beings generally, so a pre condition to be able to protect yourself and the families is to be “Momin”, rest of the answer is given in the ayah itself;
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“they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded**.”
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In simple words faith is more or less “blind”, a stong faith does provide you answers without asking questions. Human logic can not go beyond the characteristics of the matter that makes a human being, thus falls short of answering many questions about faith.
Quest to find a reason behind every question about faith is a recipe of “waywarddness”
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Peace Gora Kala,
So what tips you share with us on this topic i.e., how to protect oneself and one's family? :)
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Peace Gora Kala,
So what tips you share with us on this topic i.e., how to protect oneself and one's family? :)
Did I not mentioned that already?
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In simple words faith is more or less "blind", a stong faith does provide you answers without asking questions. Human logic can not go beyond the characteristics of the matter that makes a human being, thus falls short of answering many questions about faith.
Quest to find a reason behind every question about faith is a recipe of "waywarddness"
Well, faith is blind for people who are blind. :)
I am sure if you were Hindu, you would be worshiping Monkey God Hanuman, Elephant face Ghanesh, would be pouring milk and oil on Shiva Lingham, would be sacrificing your kids to Kali Mai ... everything you would be doing with devotion ... and would be justifying your acts by saying same what you said above, that, ‘faith is blind’.
I am pretty sure that with such mind set around, Iblees do not have to worry as humans would keep worshiping him and his absurdities blindly, without questioning, as their strong faith on absurdities would keep providing them answers without asking questions.
I am also pretty sure that every Prophet (AS) Allah sent for guidance must have asked people to stop absurdities in the name of religion, start thinking and questioning, use sense and be logical … but people under the influence of Shaitan following their absurd faith blindly must have told prophets (AS) that faith is blind so do not criticize their faith, and must have persecuted Prophets (AS) for saying that what they (blind followers) do in the name of religion is foolish and absurd. … Well, it was these blind followers who threw Ibrahim (AS) into fire and later exiled him for saying that to worship idols who cannot even remove fly from their faces is absurdity, and it was same people who rejected Nuh (AS) telling people to stop worshiping idols, and same was the case with Prophet (SAW) in Mecca resulting in his exile, as when he reminded people that idols worshipping is absurd, they went against him because their faith on idols was blind.
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All your close blood relatives are your family. You can ask them to think what they accept as truth and that is not much to ask. They could not break ties with you, but would listen and would expect you to listen too. If you would tell them something sensible, there could be no argument, unless they start telling you that ‘faith is blind’ and thus they are also blind when it comes to faith. Problem here is that, if they are completely blind (super devotee of Iblees) than they would try to break their relationship with you, but it is almost impossible to break blood relationship.
Further, you have people around you who can break their relationship with you if they want to, like your wife and friends. But sensible amongst them would also listen to you if you would talk sense, unless they start telling you that ‘faith is blind’ and thus they are also blind when it comes to faith. Only problem here would be that if they have different faith than you, they may break relationship with you and then you won’t be able to approach or influence them.
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Try to raise them in a manner that will make it easier for them to follow deen. So encourage them to pray/fast before they are required to, teach them to read Qur’an. Encourage them to keep good company and stay away from bad company. Teach them the value of doing good deeds through home taleem (of faza’il). Have them spend time in the environment of masjid (mostly for boys) and work to establish a good environment in the home as well.
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Peace Gora kala,
I'm afraid you haven't mentioned :)