CHOOSING A ROLE MODEL AND HELING CHILDREN TO CHOOSE THEIR ROLE MODELS

THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum As-Sabt, 28th day of Shawwal (Saturday 20th June, 2020).

*_CHOOSING A ROLE MODEL AND HELING CHILDREN TO CHOOSE THEIR ROLE MODELS_*. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. 

Role models help people to model their behavior and character after those personalities. We must choose good role models and Parents should help their children choose their role models wisely. When teaching about Islam and its teachings, parents should help their children learn about the lives of the prophets, especially Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam), swahaaba (prophet’s companions such as Abu Bakar, Umar, Uthman, Ali and so on), taabieen (the ones who followed the swahaaba), other salaf (the likes of Hassan al-Basri, Muhammad ibn Sirin, Umar Ibn Abdul-Aziz, Ahmad bin Hanbal, etc.), and early Islamic scholars such as Ibne-Taymiyyah, Ibn Al-Qayyim, Ibn Katheer, and so on. Learning about these personalities of Islam who actualized the teachings of Islam can help children learn from their knowledge and appreciate the relationship that those individuals developed with ALLAH and how they lived exemplary lives. While it may be difficult to teach children about each one of them, parents should at a minimum introduce these personalities to their children and how such personalities achieved high status within Islamic circles. Planting the seeds of respect for such personalities at an early age in your children’s hearts will make it easier for them to seek out more knowledge about these personalities of Islam when they get older. My apologies for the delay as I overslept after fajir. 

*_May ALLAH aid us to be able to support ourselves and our children in this regard_*. Aameen.