Musleh Khan – Family Life #19

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh everyone Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu Lillah wa
Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah Allah He of total Sunnah woman Weller. So let's get right into this.
We are in the 19th installment of life with children. And today, actually, we're going to go right
back to sort of look, man, verse number 33. Now, when all is said and done with respect to your
kids, you've given them all the advice in the world. They've grown up, they've matured, they've
become, you know, adults now. And they have now started their own lives. Some of them probably get
married and you know, start their own families. There is one parting advice that look man alayhis
		

			salam, or excuse me, suta Look, man leaves us with Keep in mind this Sora a large chunk of it was
devoted to a father advising his son. So there was a lot of conversation about nurturing his child,
advising his child giving direction, giving good advice, all of the things that parents we do when
we're trying to instill good morals and principles in our children. But verse number 33, which is
almost at the very end of suta lokman. Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Yeah, evenness. It took a lot
of tacoman so Alonzo Mitchell says, Yeah, you oneness. It took a lot of Belkin walks show yo mela
agency worldly donor and whether they are weather mo luden who adjust in our own world he she in the
		

			law, he helped. Let's just pause there for a minute. All Mankind. Yeah, you oneness. So keep in
mind, this was between a father and son, Sula, Look, man now, at the end, Allah is speaking to all
of mankind all parents out there all families out there. So Allah says yeah, humaneness it took a
lot of bad karma. Be conscious of your Creator, walk show yo mela UGC, while you don't earn well,
Edie, while mo luden. Who wedges in and where did he Shay. So be fearful of the day meaning the Day
of Judgment, be fearful of a day where a father cannot help his son, and the son won't be of any
avail or help to his father. You know what's amazing about this particular area, we just went
		

			through a bunch of verses of a father showing love concern care and protection for his son. Then
almost the last a, Allah subhanho wa Taala is pretty much separating the two. And basically
reminding Oh, by the way, Dad, you can't help your son on the Day of Judgment. And son, you can help
your father either. And I just think to myself, that is just unbelievably remarkable that how the
shift in terms of the message that the sort of began with and what it's ending with. And so here's
the here's the lesson for all of us. This is probably one of the hardest moments in parenting, where
you are going to have to pretty much say to your kids or show your kids, that your job as a parent
		

			is done in the sense that you can't always be there for them. You can't always hold their hands, you
can't always drop them off and pick them up, can always be there for them anytime they're in
trouble. But especially now that they've matured, and they've become adults, one of the hardest
things to say to them is son, you're going to have to figure this out on your own. You have to say
to your daughter, I know you've you know, confronted Islamophobia and hate, but you're gonna have to
like figure out a way to respond to that and to be able to handle these things. Because it's, it's a
part of what life is. And now you're old enough to understand that you're old enough to experience
		

			those things, which are even wiser and more mature enough to be prepared and to respond in a way
that you can protect yourself. Now, it's a really difficult thing to do. And some parents, they say,
that's something that they could never do. Sure you give your kids responsibilities, but at the end
of the day, you're always going to be to be there for them. Whether your kids are 56 years old, as
long as you are alive as a parent, you're going to be there for your kids, but also for the kids.
The the message in this a is also towards you and your parents, you cannot always depend on them to
do everything for you. And especially where we live in Western culture and society. Generally
		

			speaking, people mature very slowly here, in the sense that you'll still find like a 35 year old,
you know, who can't even do his dish his own dishes and can't even take care of basic chores in the
house. Cats service parents, like those are things that are more than just gradual, they either take
forever, they just don't happen at all. And so when you keep all of these factors in mind, for you
kids out there, it's a harsh reality to understand that you can't always depend on your parents to
do it.
		

			All to be there for you each and every time. And especially for the kids that who are married. I
know that it might seem like the default thing to do that when you're married and you have marriage
problems, you go back to mom and dad, and they should be able to intervene and solve everything.
Most parents are not counselors, most, most parents don't know how to cancel issues with marriage,
especially when it pertains to their own children, it's very easy to refrain from being biased to
your kids, because it's a tough pill to swallow to just be just unfair, although that's the right
thing to do. And then secondly, if the kids don't ever run into any other issues, financial issues,
		

			if they feel lonely, depressed, etc. Going back to parents and placing additional additional
responsibility and burden after they've raised you, and you have done all of these things for you,
then SubhanAllah. This reminds us that, you know, at the end of the day, we all have to be mature
enough and take responsibilities for ourselves. At the end of the day, as long as we you know, grow
and we mature as adults and we are ready to battle life. So we're at whatever that phase or that
stage of your life is. You have to be able to tough pill to swallow, you have to be able to say to
yourself, okay, I can't always depend on mom and dad to do it all for me. And I can't always depend
		

			on my kids to take care of me to look after me to come to financially support me, because they need
to have their own life as well. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala continuously says, follow to hold run
neck whom will hire to dunya, while your whole run no comb, Bella Hill horror, but Allah subhanaw
taala now says, Don't allow this world to deceive you the life of this world to deceive you. To hold
run, no confirm or rule means like a deception. It means like something you think will last a long
time, but it ends up just for a short period of time. And it could be some of the most trivial
things like you, it also refers to things that you you you depend on, but you shouldn't depend on
		

			them. Because you're going to be let down at the end of the day, it's going to be broken, it's going
to be destroyed or it's going to leave you alone. That's all called hold or so it's a level of
deception. Allah is saying that don't allow this worldly life to deceive you in the sense that
you're going to be here forever. You're going to recite here, all those things that we know part of
our Deen of just getting addicted to worldly life. Allah subhanaw taala calls that addiction calls
that connection. When you think and feel that this is the permanent place to be a look calls that
hold on. It's a kind of deception, you think it's there, but it's really isn't. So what does this
		

			have to do with parenting? At the end of the day, and then this again, really difficult to say that
when you think your family, you think your family are going to be around forever, slowly but surely
each member of the family will leave we'll leave this world. And Allah subhana wa teilen concludes
and he says Well, I Yolanda Camilla.
		

			And don't you ever for a moment allow deception, to deceive you, in front of Allah, your connection
with Allah. In other words, it's talking about since it's talking about child theme. In other words,
don't allow yourself to fall into mistake, error and sin to the extent where you are also deceived
by Allah existence. So perfect example of that is during this pandemic, lots of people, including
some Muslims, are saying things like, why would Allah do this? How could Allah allow a plague and
shut down the entire world? Now we're at the brink of a potential depression. In some countries like
this is just getting worse and worse, even though despite the the virus might be getting a little
		

			better. And we're slowly starting to get away from that. Who knows what's the future, who knows, in
the next year or two, what's going to happen, and some kind of luck. Those are the moments where
Allah is referring to, especially as a family, these are one of the priorities that you teach your
family is that don't get too caught up in life, that you do your best when you have money, spend
your money in the right things. Don't just hoard things all the time. If you have savings gifts,
some sadaqa spend for the sake of Allah. And if you're making money, and you're doing your best to
make money, make money in the head anyway, don't get attached to just taking as much of worldly life
		

			as possible. Because ultimately what that would lead to, if you are deceived by worldly life, you
will ultimately be deceived by the existence of Allah subhana wa Tada. And that's the connection
here. So if you find yourself that your kids just are not taking life seriously, they're not
maturing, they're not fulfilling responsibilities. They're not showing that they can be independent,
then ultimately, what that will lead to is that dependency will always be there on you. So you're
gonna have to figure out a way to be able to separate that for a little time, give them some
responsibilities, responsibilities, and we talked about all of this in some of the previous
		

			installments, about giving your your kids things to do
		

			treating them like the Prophet Allah Azza wa sallam said that once they reached a level of maturity,
meaning once they hit puberty, you know, once they hit that stage, so that could be between 13 some
scholar set till 15 years old point is that at early teenage years, treat them as an adult, talk to
them as an adult, give them responsibilities, and some kind of lump when you factor in all of those
things. It really puts into perspective, just how we're supposed to mature and how Islam encourages
us to be responsible at a very early age. Because why we're not going to be here forever. And don't
allow sin and mistake to deceive you Why? Because we're all going to return back to him. subhanho wa
		

			Taala, what you lay him off said he's the ultimate end. And so the this conclusion of this
particular surah, after a large portion of it was devoted between a father and son is just
remarkable, in the sense that there is a limit to our parenting, there's only so much that we can
do. And Subhanallah when you're a parent, that's a really difficult reality, to come to grips with.
Because you always want to do everything for your kids. It's what a parent does, we always want to
be there. We always want to serve. And we always want to protect and we always want to be able to
advise. But sometimes we're going to have to just let our kids figure it out. And kids, your parents
		

			are not always going to be there. They're not always going to be there for you. And it's just a
matter of time before we lose each other. And so this particular verse, When Allah subhanho wa Taala
tells us to really fear and be conscious of the day, the day of judgment. That's where our reality
should be. That's where our focus should be. That's what we should be thinking about the most that
at the end of the day. I need to do what I have to do to prepare for such a day. And my mom and dad
are not going to be there. As a matter of fact, our Prophet alayhi salatu salam even told us that on
the Day of Judgment, people will be saying FC FC even your parents will be saying FC and FC. Yo may
		

			have fiddled with motoman fa what will me hear what Abby will Sahiba to hear what any what facility
he led you to we? Allah subhanho wa Taala says not just in sort of others, but also inserted to the
modular, that on that day, the companion will run away from their friend, the parents will run away
from their children. Everybody will be running away from one another. So yeah, on that on that day,
we could possibly see our own parents, and we'll be running to them mom, dad, we're here let's stick
together and they will just say to you Neff CFC. No, no, no, no, no son, I'm going to be here. I'm
by myself I'm going to I can take care of myself do you just go and deal with your own problems?
		

			You're on your own. As a matter of fact, Violette de mucho de Mola, we have to demon either be yummy
even be Benny. Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us now on the Day of Judgment, there will even be some
parents that will run some their own children to protect themselves from the fire, or let take my
son take my daughter, I don't want to go there. So it's a really, really tough, tough reality to
come to grips with in the sense, this reminder is not an easy one. But it's a reminder that has to
be there the reality that we're going to be separated from one another. I can preach this stuff, I
can say it, but deep down inside of me. Yeah, it does. It does saddened me to an extent, to know
		

			that, you know, we're all going to be separate from one another, I'm going to lose my parents, my
parents will lose me. And we're going to lose each other. And it's a sad thing to reflect on and
think about. And this is what constantly in the poor and hundreds of times throughout the Quran,
Allah keeps reminding us of the Day of Judgment, don't forget about it, it's going to happen, we're
going to be there and we're all going to have to account for ourselves. So this is what today's
short reminder on life with children or family life is all about. And I pray that Allah subhanaw
taala gives us the strength that we get through each and every day together as a family and support
		

			each other, look out for each other and do all of the things that we need to do in order to survive
both in this worldly life as well as survive so that we have a prosperous good life in the alpha in
sha Allah hotellet a lot of them I mean, with that being said, some of you asked me about their aid.
What can be done as a family when it comes to either listen, you can do everything. Wake up as you
normally would wake up in the morning, get dressed, take your shower, do all of that stuff. Maybe
you don't have to go full fledge and just completely decked out in everything that you would
normally wear. But at least wear something decent wear something nice. Remember keeping keep in mind
		

			all of these pseudonyms, keep in mind all of these sunette acts for for waking up and 14 so wearing
white perfume, showering, tried to wear some of your best clothing, so at least wear something
decent. Secondly, pray the solitude or eat as a family. The hookah is not necessary. So you can
simply just tune in online if you want to get a short reminder. You can even what I would like to
what I'm thinking about doing is that when we're done the prayer at my house, I'm thinking just to
turn that into more or less
		

			conversation, more or less just a family will be sit there and just kind of think back, reflect on
what Ramadan has been like and just turn the reminder into more or less a conversation amongst the
family. For those of you who have young kids turn it into a storytime but the point is make it
something meaningful, not just pray and everybody just go eat. And that's the end of that. also
share some gifts. Try to buy some gifts, do the normal traditional things that we usually do in the
sin acts that we usually do. Try to go out if they're places open near you try to go out even if it
means just go to the coffee shop as a family, but just go out, do something together, fire up the
		

			barbecue, whatever it is, but just make the day as fun as enjoy joyful as possible. And inshallah I
hope and I pray that we all have good spirits on that day. I gotta admit, it's gonna be a little
depressing. Read is about being with the community. It's about being with each other. And just this
year, we won't have that but in sha Allah, Allah knows best allies, the best of planners, and
inshallah this will be a good experience for all of us. So Take care everybody, may Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless you all, just like Melo. Hayden said Mr. They come to LA to better care to