Parental Obligation
It is indeed most lamentable that almost all parents in this age have absconded from the pedestal of parenthood and have abandoned their parental obligations to their offspring. Parental obligation in this age is confined to the provision of food, clothes and kufr secular education. Ta’leem and Tarbiyat of children no longer form part of the duties and obligation of parents.
FUTILE REGRET
The unfettered freedom which parents are giving their children, parental abandonement of ta’leem and tarbiyat, obsession with only worldly gains, indifference to the goals of the Deen and subservience to the inordinate demands of morally corrupt children have totally destroyed the moral fibre of Muslim youth.
The imagined imperative need to send children to such secular institutions which not only erode and ruin Islamic moral character, but which even destroy Imaan, has driven Muslim children to the brink of Jahannaum. In the process of Imaani and Akhlaaqi ruin of children, parents are in the forefront. They will be held primarily responsible by Allah Ta’ala for the ruin of their children.
The fruits of such ruin will be presented to parents right here in this worldly life when they will witness with their own eyes the evil pathways of immorality and kufr their children adopt. Parents who send their sons and daughters to evil and immoral secular institutions which nowadays excel in ‘intellectual’ pornography dubbed ‘sex-education’, have no right to lament, cry and regret when they find their teenage daughter or son having struck up an illicit relationship with a non-Muslim co-student. Parents have no valid grounds for being surprised and lamenting when they discover their child being addicted to drugs.
LOGICAL
Evil and immorality are the natural, logical and necessary consequences of associating and mingling with morally impure and corrupt elements. The natural effect of pursuing secular education at immoral institutions is erosion of Imaan and total ruin of Akhlaaq. It is for this very reason and evil consequences that Hakimul Ummat Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said: “It is millions of times better to be a sweeper in a Musjid than to pursue English (secular) education.”
The criticism and aversion are not directed at secular education. The attack is against the immoral schools and universities. The abhorrence is for the evil and immoral consequences which come in the wake of the liberalism of westernism which pervades all the secular schools, colleges and universities of the age. Hence, if secular education has to be pursued at the cost of the ruin of Imaan and Akhlaaq, then it is Waajib to remain ignorant of such ‘sciences’ and rather cut grass and sweep the streets for a livelihood.
The purpose of life on earth is success and salvation in the Aakhirah, not worldly perfection and comfort. Parents should understand the path they have adopted in relation to their children. The sins of children will hem in their parents who will stand first in line for Divine Punishment while the children will follow suit.
