Your Muslim Parents

Wa alaykumsalam wrwb

MashaaAllah, interesting topic! As a child, I "officially" learnt matters of the religion outside of my home. I went to a madrasah and also went to a lady's house who taught us to read arabic. At home, I usually asked my father about origins. Origin of creation. I also asked about God. My mother would be the one who taught/reminded me to recite Sura Al Ikhlas before I go to sleep. I believe that my parents taught me about Islam not by sitting me down and "teaching" it to me, though there were those moments, most of how I learnt is through seeing them simply being muslims, though certain things I had to be specifically taught. I learnt the importance of eating only halal food, washing up after myself..etc.

I personally find it interesting to reflect now, as I still somewhat remember my thoughts from back then. I am reminded of the importance of humility and seeking knowledge. Much of what I have been learning the past few years are what I was taught as a child, however a child's ability to comprehend is different compared to that of an adult's. Unfortunately we have people today who are born muslims but they hardly bother to study about Islam since they already "learnt" it as a child. As a result, their level of knowledge regarding Islam is merely what they remembered/comprehended as a child.

That's my childhood from what I can remember. I know for a fact that there are other kids who had a much more "islamic" childhood than me. In terms of being a muslim adult, it took me a while to really get into the state of being reflective of life.

Thanks for sharing Brother Hulk.

No problem Sis Aprender. Now that I am in my 20s with intentions of having my own family in the future, I think as muslim parents it would be very important for us to be in touch with our children's development in knowledge (of course to be able to do that we need to be learners as well). Someone close to me recently related something which his family member told him about. Apparently the family member's 13/14 year old son was told in religious class that dinosaurs never existed, now the 13 year old is very smart for his age and is really into that sort of stuff, so what the teacher said really made him upset.

The family member talked about it with my friend, saying that he felt that the teacher should have kept the topic to "religion" and left everything else out of it.

So on one hand there is the problem where the teacher said that dinosaurs never existed (The Quran never rejects the possibility of the existence of dinosaurs as far as I know), then there is the problem of wanting to separate religious teachings and "non-religious" teachings as if they are at odds..

Thanks for sharing Brother


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