Guidance for Teachers and Educators in Raising the Youth on the Oneness of Allah

Question:
Perhaps we can suffice with this guidance. This is a request to your eminence for guidance for teachers and educators, offering them words to preserve the young and the youth and raise them on the oneness of Allah (tawhid), so that it may be a strong fortress for them against misleading trials.

Answer:
There is no doubt that teachers bear a great responsibility, which is teaching the children and raising them. The one in authority has entrusted them with this, and their fathers and mothers have also entrusted them with their children. So the teacher has a great responsibility to guide the students to hold fast to their religion, hold fast to good morals, and stay away from bad morals, bad companions, and bad company. He also has a great obligation to explain the curriculum to them; he should not waste time on idle talk, nor fail to explain the curriculum to them and clarify its meanings and objectives, because this is his primary responsibility, as he teaches them the curriculum so that they understand it well. Allah the Exalted said: "But be men of knowledge who cause others to draw near to Allah."