How to Protect Children from Deviant Thoughts
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Question:
Umm Muhammad says: Shaykh Salih, how are children protected from all evil and from Satan? Also, how is a home protected if there are strange things in it that the household members imagine?
Answer:
Protecting children requires two things. First, upbringing: Islamic upbringing in obedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and education: teaching children the religion of Islam, teaching them proper conduct, and preventing them from vices and bad manners. This is one thing. The second thing is making du'a (supplication) for them and praying for them, that Allah should rectify them and guide them. These are the means of upbringing and raising children in obedience to Allah.
The third thing is to keep them away from matters of evil, to keep them away from the matters of evil that incite them to corruption, such as bad sights, forbidden listening, or other means of corrupting morals, or even worse, corrupting beliefs and corrupting religion. Keep them away from these means, and protect them from bad company. Monitor them, for they are under his responsibility, and he is accountable for them. They are subjects under his protection, and it is obligatory for him to fulfill his duty toward his children. Yes.
Umm Muhammad says: Shaykh Salih, how are children protected from all evil and from Satan? Also, how is a home protected if there are strange things in it that the household members imagine?
Answer:
Protecting children requires two things. First, upbringing: Islamic upbringing in obedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and education: teaching children the religion of Islam, teaching them proper conduct, and preventing them from vices and bad manners. This is one thing. The second thing is making du'a (supplication) for them and praying for them, that Allah should rectify them and guide them. These are the means of upbringing and raising children in obedience to Allah.
The third thing is to keep them away from matters of evil, to keep them away from the matters of evil that incite them to corruption, such as bad sights, forbidden listening, or other means of corrupting morals, or even worse, corrupting beliefs and corrupting religion. Keep them away from these means, and protect them from bad company. Monitor them, for they are under his responsibility, and he is accountable for them. They are subjects under his protection, and it is obligatory for him to fulfill his duty toward his children. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 7648- كيفية تحصين الأولاد من الأفكار المنحرفة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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