 وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوّاله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على عبد الله ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته في حقيقة لا يجب أن يكون الحمد للهدف يستطيع أن يتعلم لهدفه درماً تبقى كيف أعلم الحمد للهدف وماذا حدث الحمد للهدف وماذا حدث الحمد للهدف يذهب في حدثه ومالذلك ولكنه still the parents responsibility to ensure that the child gets that education it's still the child's right to receive that education so it's not enough for the parent to simply drop the child at the gates of the masjid or the medrosa and say that these people are going to take that responsibility from me and that's why in this episode in sha Allah it's not my intention to go through every last aspect of teaching your children Islam but more to give you an overview of some important concepts and principles that will help you as a parent to if you like supervise arrange organize and participate in your children's Islamic education and we're going to try to do this based upon the texts from the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and from the other the reports that are narrated and brought to us from the righteous predecessors those people who excelled in knowledge from the different generations so let us try to kind of stop by looking at the virtue and the value of knowledge and why it's important as a parent that you should give your child Islamic education the highest priority الله سبحانه وتعالى told us in سورة المجادلة in ayah number 11 يا أيها الذين آمنوا إذا قيل لكم تفسحوا في المجالس ففسحوا يفسحوا الله لكم وإذا قيلا شزوفا شزو يرفع الله الذين آمنوا منكم والذين أوتوا العلم درجات والله بما تعملون خبير أو you who believe if it is said to you make space in the gatherings then make space and Allah will open things up for you Allah will make ease for you and if it's said to you stand up then stand up and Allah will raise those people who believe from among you and those who have been given knowledge درجات many levels and Allah is all aware of what you do so Allah عز وجل here and the part of the ayah we wanted يرفع الله الذين آمنوا منكم والذين أوتوا العلم درجات Allah will raise up those who believe among you الله عز وجل will raise up those who believe among you and those who have been given knowledge many levels so Allah عز وجل promised He promised to raise up the status of the people who have been given knowledge and that's something that should motivate us to gain knowledge for ourselves and our children and we should remind everyone what we had said in a previous episode about the parent being an example for the child وجعينا للمتقينة إمامة make us examples for the people of Taqwa the parent has to be an example for the child but this should be something to motivate us that if we want the status of our children to be raised up in the sight of Allah عز وجل and for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to raise them up levels in this world and in the hereafter then the way and the means to achieve that is through العلم and there is a principle this principle the best of my knowledge it is a principle that is widely agreed upon among the scholars of Islam and that is whenever العلم is mentioned in the sharia without any restrictions then the knowledge that is mentioned is العلم الشرعي the knowledge of the sharia and the knowledge of Islam and it's not the knowledge of medicine it's not the knowledge of science it's not the knowledge of mathematics it's not the knowledge of English or indeed of any other language rather it is the knowledge of Islam and it's sciences that raises a people up Darajat many levels in the sight of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and here is a very interesting point which is that it's very rare that people are sincere towards other people sincerely want good except for those who Allah has had mercy upon but one example where you consistently see even among people who might not be adhering to the religion in the way that they should be we still see that generally the parent is one example where they truly want good for their children your parents generally speaking really genuinely want their children to succeed and this ayah tells us that the means to success is الإيمان and العلم it is إيمان it is faith that is comprised of beliefs and statements and actions and it is العلم it is knowledge الله عز وجل told us in سورةها فتعال الله الملك الحق ولا تعجل بالقرآن من قابل أن يقضى إليك وحيه وقر ربي زدني علمه so exalted is Allah and Malik الحق and do not seek or messenger to hasten the Quran before it is revealed to you we know the Prophet ﷺ he used to worry in the beginning about keeping the Quran and about whether he would be how to convey the Quran and الله عز وجل took that responsibility away from him but Allah عز وجل commanded him to say وقر ربي زدني علمه ربي زدني علمه my lord increase me in knowledge if our Prophet ﷺ was told to say that and that was considered to be something fundamental to him that he needed to make dua to say الله increase me in knowledge then indeed this is something that all of us should be doing should be encouraging our children to do and we should be making dua for our children ربي زدهم علمه or Allah increase them in knowledge give them more knowledge and increase us in knowledge ربي زدني علمه my lord increase me in knowledge and from the Ahadith that is from the most comprehensive and the most excellent of the Ahadith among the most excellent of the Ahadith regarding the virtue of knowledge and why we should be giving attention to our children's Islamic education is what is narrated from Qais Muqteer that he said قادم رجل من المدينة على أبي الدرداء رضي الله عنه وهو بدمشق أمان came from مدينة to the noble companion أبو الدرداء while he was in Damascus came all the way from مدينة to Damascus فقال ما أقدمك يا أخي أبو الدرداه سدهم what made you come here my brother فقال حديث بلغني أنك تحدث عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم he said I've come because of a Hadith and it's reached me that you are the one who is narrating this Hadith from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and Sahaba spread out all over the Islamic world at that time and so the people who heard of this from the Tab'een and the young Sahaba and so on they would travel they would with great hardship particularly from the Tab'een and those after them traveling from place to place to here somebody who has this Hadith from the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم so أبو الدرداء he said to him قال أما جئت لي حاجة he said did you not come for something you needed you know yeah you came for the Hadith but you you know you had maybe some trade in Damascus you had something you needed and you came to ask me on the side قال لا he said no قال أما قادمت لي تجارة he said haven't you come here for business قال لا he said no قال ما جئت إلا في طلب هذا الحديث he said the only thing that brought you here is to ask about this one Hadith you came all the way from Medina to Damascus to ask me about one Hadith قال فإني سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول he said then I have heard the message of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم من سلك طريقا يبتغي فيه علم سلك الله به طريقا إلى الجنة whether sets out on a path in which he seeks knowledge Allah takes him on a path to Jannah in some of the different narrations it's mentioned سهر الله له به طريقا إلى الجنة Allah makes his path to Jannah easy وإن الملائكة تضعوا أجنحتها رضاً تطالب العلم and the angels they lower their wings out of pleasure for the student of knowledge when the angels they lower their wings they lower their wings out of pleasure for what the student of knowledge is doing سبحان الله can you think of any Hadith in which the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said it will be easy for you to go to Jannah it will be easy for you to go to Jannah generally Jannah is not associated with is ألا إن سلعة الله غالية the thing that Allah is selling to you is expensive ألا إن سلعة الله الجنة the thing that Allah is selling to you is Jannah سبحان الله جنة is not easy جنة is expensive جنة is worth something and yet in this Hadith the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told us that Allah سهل الله Allah will make it easy for this person to go to Jannah and Allah will take him on a path to Jannah and that the angels lower their wings out of contentment how content they are to see people seeking knowledge would you not want your child to be someone that the angels lower their wings for him or for her would you not want your child to be someone who is easy for them to go to Jannah would that not be closer to benefiting you as a parent even either through the fact that you were the one to set them out on this path and you would have the reward because whoever guides a person towards good gets the reward of what that person gets without their reward being decreased in anything so you as a parent would get the reward of that and if you fell short as a parent the hope that perhaps Allah سبحانه وتعالى from his grace and his mercy might make what you had given to that child and help that child a cause for you to enter Paradise along with them and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم continued in this حريث وإن العالمة ليستغفر له من في السماوات ومن في الأرض حتى الحيتان وفي الماء that the scholar and there are narrations that mention the Talib but that most of the narrations they mention the scholar that the scholar everything in the heavens and the earth asks forgiveness for them even the fish in the water even the fish in the water the fish in the water asks Allah to forgive the scholar everything in the heavens and the earth is making dua for Allah to forgive the scholar and in some of the narrations we said it mentions the student of knowledge even when we say perhaps the scholar has the the حض أوفا the big portion of this but perhaps a portion of it comes to the student of knowledge and Allah is our جل مو's best وفضلوا العالمي على العابد كفضل القمري على سائر الكواكب and the virtue of the scholar over the worshipper is like the virtue of the moon over all of the other heavenly bodies of all of the other things that are in the sky سبحان الله all of the other things that how the moon stands out on the night when it's full you can barely see the stars the small stars the moon stands out that is the virtue of the scholar over all of the other worshippers and notice here the Prophet ﷺ is not differentiating between the scholar and the semi-practicing you know like 50-50 جمع رمضان مسلم the Prophet ﷺ is distinguishing between the scholar and the عابد the one who is worshipping Allah in the day and the night he fasts in the day and he prays in the night he صلي في الليل و يصومه في النهار he fasts in the day and he prays in the night and the scholar is so much better than him سبحان الله over the عابد the worshipper who is dedicated to the worship of Allah so how is the virtue of the scholar over the one who is not really practicing Islam or not really committed towards the religion of Islam and not really doing what they should be doing if the virtue of the scholar over the worshipper who is dedicated to the worship of Allah it's like the virtue of the moon over everything else that is in the heavens إن العلماء ورثت الأنبياء إن الأنبياء لم يورثوا دينارا ولا درحما إنما ورثوا العلم the scholars they are the inheritors of the prophets there is no prophet coming after the Prophet ﷺ so you know عيس ﷺ he will come down as an ayah as a sign not as a prophet but as a sign from Allah عز وجل of the coming of the hour there is no prophet coming after the Prophet ﷺ who is it that took the job of the prophets and the role of the prophets and inherited that from them the ألماء the scholars they are the ones who inherited the prophets would you not want your son or your daughter to be someone who inherits the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the prophets generally ﷺ the prophets didn't leave any دينار or any درحم behind what they left behind was nothing but knowledge فمن أخذ به أخذ بحظن وافر so whoever takes this knowledge from them has taken a huge portion a big portion you talk about inheritance and money you say oh how much did you get a big portion or a small portion if you took knowledge from the prophets عليه الصلاة والسلام from our messenger محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم you took the biggest portion of good and the biggest portion of excellence and of the most wonderful thing that you could have took you took it if you took knowledge from the prophets عليه الصلاة والسلام look at the virtue here look at the virtue and that's why there's a narration from أبي هوريرا رضي الله عنده he once went into the marketplace one day and he saw all the businessmen the traders and they were trying to trade each one is trying to to make his money for the day and that he mentioned that the inheritance of the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام was being shared out in the masjid and of course the traders they thought that maybe the bowl of the prophet maybe his cutlery maybe some of his clothing was being distributed in the masjid thinking that if I can get a portion of this and when they went into the masjid they just saw somebody reading the Quran and somebody studying the rules of Islam and the laws of Islam they just saw people studying knowledge they came back and they said صوت أبو هوريرا we didn't see in the masjid the inheritance being divided he said what did you see and they talked to him some people studying the Quran and some people were learning knowledge and some people were you know they were revising and what have you أبو هوريرا said this was the inheritance of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that's what the prophet says and left behind and if only you would rush to that the way you would rush to your business and your wealth and your money and your opportunities for trade and increase سبحان الله a person would take a health they would take a health a huge portion a huge reward from this isn't that what we would love to have for our children bearing in mind what I said that the person who guides a person and the person who sets a person out on that path is like the one who did it and gets the reward of the one who did it so you as a parent imagine you have three children or two children or four children imagine that every one of them you set them out on that path the reward that you get as a parent for setting your children out upon that path and we have to understand that seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim and so it's an obligation upon our children and therefore as parents who are responsible for our children it is an obligation upon us and a right that they have over us that we give them that obligatory knowledge and that's why there is a hadith from Anas ibn Malik from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that he said the hadith narrated by mummaja others and this hadith is a hadith which the scholars differed over its authenticity and its weakness there are many among the scholars who said this hadith is authentic and they said the reason it's authentic is because it came from so many different chains and different narrations that they reached the level of it being fair or authentic others among them they said this hadith is not authentic however those who said the hadith is not authentic like the greatest imam ishaq ibn rahway he said رحمه الله و تعالى لم يصح he said this hadith is not authentic he said except that the meaning of it is authentic so even those scholars who didn't accept the authenticity of this hadith they agreed unanimously that the meaning of it is authentic and many among them said the hadith is authentic طالب العلم فريطة على كل مسلم seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every single مسلم every single مسلم it is obligatory upon them it is obligatory upon you to seek knowledge however this leads us to a question or a problem and that is that how can it be that seeking knowledge is an obligation how do we understand that in the right way because it wouldn't that indicate that if our children are not all طالب العلم are not students of knowledge then we are sinful as parents does that not indicate that if we are not students of knowledge we are sinful does that not indicate that our children are not studying Islam actively and memorizing the Quran and the hadith and studying from the scholars that we as parents have failed in our duty to our children in reality here we have to distinguish between two types and this is the first thing that I would like to share with you as it relates to the important and fundamental principles that you have to take as a parent and your child's Islamic education and that is that there are two types of Islamic knowledge there is a type of Islamic knowledge that is it is an obligation upon everyone every مسلم every one of us who is watching this video how old you are it doesn't matter whether we are talking about you know the parent, the child all of you it is farad upon you to get this knowledge now with regard to the children the farad happens at puberty the farad becomes sinful but we established a principle already that the child has to be given what they need to fulfill their obligations before the time for those obligations come to pray from 7 years old and we discipline them if they don't pray at 10 years old even though the prayer doesn't become sinful leaving the prayer until they reach puberty so likewise here it is farad upon every single مسلم male, female whatever age they might be it is farad upon them to seek knowledge however what is the knowledge that is farad and what is the knowledge that is farad do kifaya the knowledge that is a collective obligation and what does it even mean for this knowledge to be a collective obligation what does the word collective obligation actually mean the word collective obligation what it means is that it is an obligation for some for enough people to do this job for the need to be fulfilled and if there aren't enough people to do this job and the need is not being fulfilled then everybody is sinful but if there are enough people doing the job and the need is fulfilled then their their work and their efforts suffice the rest of the people it's not an obligation upon the rest of the people so we said that knowledge of Islam and Islamic knowledge can be divided into these two categories a category that is and a category that is a category that is an individual obligation meaning that you have to give this to every single one of your children and of course in a way that is age appropriate and so on according to their age and ability but every one of your children it is a right that they have over you as a parent will be asked that every one of your children got this knowledge that is just like you'll be asked whether you had that knowledge every one of you the husband the wife every one of you will be asked about that knowledge that is individual obligation as for the knowledge which is and collective obligation then this one is a bit more nuanced so not everyone will be able to do this and that's why it's far to keep fire because Allah in his wisdom has made it such that because not everybody will be able to do that aspect that second aspect but that second aspect it might be the situation and indeed it could easily be argued that in our time in our situation it is the case that actually we don't have enough scholars we don't have enough students of knowledge we don't have enough people calling to Allah according to the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah and what the companions were upon and those who followed them in good we don't have enough people doing that and if it's the case that you feel watching this video that we don't have enough people doing that then it becomes an obligation upon all of us to contribute towards that effort to contribute whether it be one of our children or more of our children that we see that there's a need just like the wife of Imran she saw there was a need and she said I have sworn to you or Allah that what is in my womb I will give that child in service to you Subhan Allah she saw there was a need and she fulfilled that need if you believe that there are not enough people calling to Allah and you believe that more people are needed then you have to step up and take that responsibility as well so it may be that a فارد كفاية becomes فارد عين how can it be that a collective obligation becomes an individual obligation if there is no one else who is standing up for it no one else who is doing it and no one else that can take that collective obligation except a particular person then it becomes obligatory upon them as an individual obligation as well so let's go back to the knowledge that is فارد عين because this one is more important to begin with and then we can insha'Allah cover the knowledge which is فارد كفاية which is voluntary or which is a collective obligation in other words at least a minimum number of people have to do it to fulfill the need and get the job done and if the job is not being done and not being done in a way that is good enough or factory enough then all of us are sinful and all of us are to blame so let's talk about the knowledge that is فارد عين an individual obligation and the scholars differ over the way they explain this type of knowledge but from the best of the explanations that I have seen in this is to explain this knowledge in the context of the حديث of جبريل because in the context of جبريل which is the حديث that عبد الله عبن عمر رضي الله عنهما narrated from his father عمر عبن الخطاب رضي الله عنه which covers the five pillars of Islam and it covers the six pillars of إيمان so it covers the five pillars of Islam that is to testify there is no God worthy of worship except Allah that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah to perform the prayer to give the zakah رمضان and to make Hajj for those who are able to do so and then you have the six pillars of إيمان that you believe in Allah in his angels, his messengers, his scripture and you believe in the last day and you believe in the Divine Decree the good of it and the bad of it and the حديث in which the Prophet سبحانه وتعالى told us about إحسان he told us what it means to perfect your worship and to reach the highest level of worship that you worship Allah even though you can't see him you know that he sees you in this حديث at the end of the very very end of the حديث in the حديث صحي مسلم the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to أمر بالخطاب about he asked him did you know who that person was and أمر he replied الله و رسوله أعلم he said Allah in his messenger no best Allah knows best gave revelation to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم about it so Allah in his messenger no best then he said he said this was Gabriel and he came to you to teach you your religion look at the way the Prophet I seem to describe these fundamental points as دينكم your religion this is your religion and therefore I think that generally speaking for us to say that the حديث of Gabriel maybe not exclusively but as a base represents the knowledge which is for every Muslim that is a strong and a good explanation of what is obligatory upon every Muslim and we can add to it something additional because we have to add one additional piece of information to the حديث of Gabriel and many of the scholars as we said that they had different explanations of the knowledge that is obligatory upon every Muslim however generally speaking if you look at the knowledge they put forward if you look at the suggestions and the examples almost all of them fall within the حديث of Gabriel however there is one more thing we need to add and that is the knowledge which relates to your current circumstances and which you need in your current circumstances and that is because knowledge must always precede action and Imam Al-Bukhari that knowledge precedes statement and action and in it he gave the evidence of the ayah in which الله عز وجل said know that there is no God worthy of worship except الله and then seek forgiveness for your sins so knowledge preceded the إستغفار it preceded seeking forgiveness the Prophet ﷺ commanded first to have the knowledge and then to seek the forgiveness so if we understand that there are all of us have different situations in our life for example one of us is about to get married before they get married they need the knowledge about the rights of the husband the rights of the wife and so on one of us is about to have a child before that child is born we need to know the rights of the child and the responsibilities and obligations of the parent and so on so if we were to say and الله عز وجل knows best this is just my sort of way of simplifying it and my kind of way of summarizing what I read from the people of knowledge on this topic is that if we were to say what is found within the Hadith of Jibril in addition to in addition to what is specific to each person's circumstances then I think that this is a good way of explaining it so what is found within the Hadith of Jibril is التوحيد that is the worship of Allah عز وجل alone which is summarized for us by the شهاداتين أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمد الرسول الله to know what it means to understand its conditions and its rules to understand how to implement it in their lives to know how to pray to know how to give the zakah again according to the person's circumstances so it's not necessary for them to know all of the massage of zakah the individual issues in zakah but they should know what is the basic obligation of zakah the basic things that zakah is due upon in a general sense then what is specific to their circumstances how to fast and then how to perform the Hajj at least before they go to the Hajj and the Umrah they know that there is a Hajj that is obligatory upon them and they know a little bit about it and then before they go they get more of the details in that and then as it relates to إيمان that they know Allah and they know the angels they know the messengers and the scripture the last day the belief in the last day and the belief in the divine decree the good of it and the bad again when we talk about what is obligatory upon every Muslim in a general sense we're not saying necessarily the individual like for example someone says okay is it obligatory in a matter of to know the maratib of al qadr to know the different stages of qadr we might say that the individual issues there like the stages of qadr and how each one builds upon the other that might not be that might not be from the things that are obligatory but to generally understand the qadr of Allah and to understand that means that we have to work hard and put our trust in Allah and that we need him that is from the obligations upon every Muslim so I think if you were to say the knowledge contained within the Hadith of Gabriel in addition to what is specific to a person's circumstances that is before they get married they learn the rulings of marriage before they for example they learn how to perform umrah before they start trading in business they learn what is halan as it relates to their circumstances then I think this is what is obligatory upon every single Muslim so that's what Allah has made easy for me to mention in this episode there will be a second part in the next episode where we're going to go on to talk a little bit more about this and to talk about the knowledge which is which is a collective obligation which we have to be careful that enough people are doing it to get the job done and Insha'Allah we are going to talk more about principles and things that are essential as it relates to your children's education and Allah is the best على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعي السلام عليكم if you are enjoying these videos with all of the courses we are going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com