Top Tips to Become an Ideal Muslim Mom
Muslim children have rights over their parents: shelter, food, clothing, health, hygiene, and education.
Therefore, parents are obligated to provide these for them.
Fathers must provide the financial means and assurance of all these necessities, while mothers must maintain and disseminate them.
In being the children's primary educator, mothers must always strive to be caring, compassionate, and healthy role models who practice what they preach.
Top Tips to Achieve Happiness as an Ideal Muslim Mom * Be a Student of Allah - Gaining knowledge is a duty for every Muslim.
Studying our deen, religion and way of life is especially more important when you are a mother, because it's your responsibility to teach your children what's important that your faith.
And, to practice it accordingly so together, you can work to achieve the greatest goal: entrance into jennah, Heaven.
Your studies should include the Qur'an, Sunnah and Sirah of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, learning about the Sahabah, and all our secular studies intertwining Islamic history, science, and culture within them.
* Embody Islam - Everything you need to know to achieve a strong character, pleasant personality, sound manners, and high moral and ethics is found in the Qur'an and Sunnah.
A Muslim mom should be truthful, sincere, secure, honest, loving, resourceful, stable-minded, and strive to be her children's most compassionate caregiver who they will always feel comfort in turning to first.
* Instill Intellectual Inquiry as the Root to Gaining Complete Knowledge - There is more benefit to creating a life-learner by teaching a child to love learning, through investigative reasoning, discovery and inventive creation-building based on their own curiosity.
* Be a keen and adaptive educator.
It is your duty to be astute to each of your children's different personalities, skills, strengths, weaknesses, sensitivities, and talents.
By being fully aware of each of your children's similarities and differences, you will have the patience to cater to their every need and desires in a personalized way.
It is imperative that you treat each child with tact and the right amount of attention they deserve.
By doing so, your children will never doubt that home is their most safe and secure place in this world.
* Offer guidance in a nurturing environment.
As your children's primary advisor, you must assure maintain a trustworthy and respectful atmosphere to allow them the comfort to find deep understanding and appreciation for everything you teach them in this world.
When a child has the supportive environment, he/she will grow and thrive in any or all subjects you teach them, whether the education be religious, secular, cultural, physical, artistic, logic, home economics, civics, politics, money management or any life lesson you teach them.
* Be a Delightful Disciplinarian and Just Judge.
When you maintain a hair, honest and patient demeanor, your children willfully accepts strict rules, understandable limitations, frequent rewards, and just punishment.
Children actually thrive in environments that values rules, because it affords them the opportunity to please others in the process, such as their parents, and Allah.
To be most effective, you must remain steadfast, stable, and consistent it all dealings, otherwise your children will undermine you authority if they sense that you don't value your authority yourself.
* Be a Resourceful Family Fun Leader.
It's critical that you offer your children lively, creative, exciting, unexpected, funny and colorful entertainment that is halal/permissible.
By offering your children all the pleasures this world has to offer in context of Islam and in safe environment of your family's presence, they will develop confidence and self-respect for their individuality, that they will not be affected nor desire haram/prohibited outside influence.
Regardless if you live in a primarily Muslim or non-Muslim culture, it is your duty not to permit your children to assimilate to un-Islamic customs, nor will you isolate from un-Islamic lifestyles.
It is your duty to show them all forms of cultural understanding, and as long as you follow the Sunnah you will develop strong Muslims worthy of be emulated by others in this life.
For living life righteously means living without fear of being ridicule, or desiring praise from people in this world.
After all, you owe it to yourself and your children to only desire to please Allah and Only Him, in all that you do.
Therefore, parents are obligated to provide these for them.
Fathers must provide the financial means and assurance of all these necessities, while mothers must maintain and disseminate them.
In being the children's primary educator, mothers must always strive to be caring, compassionate, and healthy role models who practice what they preach.
Top Tips to Achieve Happiness as an Ideal Muslim Mom * Be a Student of Allah - Gaining knowledge is a duty for every Muslim.
Studying our deen, religion and way of life is especially more important when you are a mother, because it's your responsibility to teach your children what's important that your faith.
And, to practice it accordingly so together, you can work to achieve the greatest goal: entrance into jennah, Heaven.
Your studies should include the Qur'an, Sunnah and Sirah of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, learning about the Sahabah, and all our secular studies intertwining Islamic history, science, and culture within them.
* Embody Islam - Everything you need to know to achieve a strong character, pleasant personality, sound manners, and high moral and ethics is found in the Qur'an and Sunnah.
A Muslim mom should be truthful, sincere, secure, honest, loving, resourceful, stable-minded, and strive to be her children's most compassionate caregiver who they will always feel comfort in turning to first.
* Instill Intellectual Inquiry as the Root to Gaining Complete Knowledge - There is more benefit to creating a life-learner by teaching a child to love learning, through investigative reasoning, discovery and inventive creation-building based on their own curiosity.
* Be a keen and adaptive educator.
It is your duty to be astute to each of your children's different personalities, skills, strengths, weaknesses, sensitivities, and talents.
By being fully aware of each of your children's similarities and differences, you will have the patience to cater to their every need and desires in a personalized way.
It is imperative that you treat each child with tact and the right amount of attention they deserve.
By doing so, your children will never doubt that home is their most safe and secure place in this world.
* Offer guidance in a nurturing environment.
As your children's primary advisor, you must assure maintain a trustworthy and respectful atmosphere to allow them the comfort to find deep understanding and appreciation for everything you teach them in this world.
When a child has the supportive environment, he/she will grow and thrive in any or all subjects you teach them, whether the education be religious, secular, cultural, physical, artistic, logic, home economics, civics, politics, money management or any life lesson you teach them.
* Be a Delightful Disciplinarian and Just Judge.
When you maintain a hair, honest and patient demeanor, your children willfully accepts strict rules, understandable limitations, frequent rewards, and just punishment.
Children actually thrive in environments that values rules, because it affords them the opportunity to please others in the process, such as their parents, and Allah.
To be most effective, you must remain steadfast, stable, and consistent it all dealings, otherwise your children will undermine you authority if they sense that you don't value your authority yourself.
* Be a Resourceful Family Fun Leader.
It's critical that you offer your children lively, creative, exciting, unexpected, funny and colorful entertainment that is halal/permissible.
By offering your children all the pleasures this world has to offer in context of Islam and in safe environment of your family's presence, they will develop confidence and self-respect for their individuality, that they will not be affected nor desire haram/prohibited outside influence.
Regardless if you live in a primarily Muslim or non-Muslim culture, it is your duty not to permit your children to assimilate to un-Islamic customs, nor will you isolate from un-Islamic lifestyles.
It is your duty to show them all forms of cultural understanding, and as long as you follow the Sunnah you will develop strong Muslims worthy of be emulated by others in this life.
For living life righteously means living without fear of being ridicule, or desiring praise from people in this world.
After all, you owe it to yourself and your children to only desire to please Allah and Only Him, in all that you do.
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