On Breeding an Islamic Way of Life: Raising Children

Peace kchughtai

Well there are a number of things … Islam for one advocates travel to learn. However, one simple recipe is to learn Arabic ourselves while we expect our children to learn it. And then to converse with them in Arabic. I have seen success stories where a British Pakistani mother has learnt Arabic (mainly from books) and has then embarked on speaking with her children in Arabic. Consequently her children are fluent in Arabic.

Look it is simple … The first part of language submersion is to be able to recognise some simple terms. These are:

Ma = what
Hadhza or Hadzihi = This
Dhzalika or Tillka = That
Mann = Who

Then a whole set of nouns both masculine and feminine and we have people speaking in sentences.

For example:

A) Mann hadhza? (Who is is this?)
B) Hadzha Waladun (This is a boy) really it is Walad but it is good to say waladun because of later on when 'ishara will be learnt.

Then using this interrogation method not only will we become accustomed to knowing what simple enquiry questions are in Arabic but we will learn Arabic nouns through this method. Using pictures and pointing to objects like children do will teach us, enforce it in us and teach our children.