Re: What is the Most Important Thing You want to Instill in Your Child?
I don’t find it to be narrow. I have a Master’s degree. And I belong to the education profession. I never said that education is not important at all. It’s a necessity. But I just don’t see it as a gateway. I can have a PHD and reach the heights of my career and earn enough to want for nothing, I can fulfill every professional requirement on time, but if I can’t take time out do sajda 5 times a day, if I keep myself updated about the latest trends in my field and read all the professional books and attend every seminar, but if I never took the time to understand Allah’s book in its entirety and not just a handful of surahs which will be the only book that I’ll be questioned about in the next world (not the textbooks) then my life is lacking in those things that comprise the gateway to next dunya. The Quran speaks of a generation that lost their prayers; I don’t want my kids to be successful in every worldly way but to become careless like those former generations. Again, education and degree is a necessity in this world; I do not deny that at all. I’m not saying it should be one or the other. One should have both forms of education; deeni and worldly. I just see the former as being the gateway to success in both worlds while you see the latter as being the gateway. Also, given the times that we’re living in, the constant bashing of Islam in the media, and the temptations facing the youth, it will take more than a university education and degree…a sound deeni education is even more necessary now so that kids do not succumb to the media and the misinformation around them.