Zakir Naik – Can We Admit Our Kids in Covenant Schools

As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuhu.

Wa-alaykum as-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa

-barakātuhu.

My name is Umair.

I'm from Bangalore, India.

I work as an operations manager.

I have a young daughter whom I want

to admit into an Islamic school.

The Islamic school is very far from my

home.

We have a convent school right beside our

home.

My wife argues that we put her in

the convent school as it is close to

our home.

She cites reasons such as it is unsafe

to send a girl child far nowadays.

But I want to put her in an

Islamic school so that she can stay away

from shirk, have an Islamic environment and at

the same time gain worldly progress.

I do not mind risking her sending far

away.

I have faith in Allah that He will

protect her if I strive in His way.

How do I convince my wife?

Brother Umair has asked a very good question

that he wants to send his young child,

the young daughter, to an Islamic school.

But the wife is insisting that since the

Islamic school is very far, better put in

a school which is close by even though

it's a convent because it's not safe to

put the child in a school which is

far away.

Basically, let me tell you that Bangalore is

a safe city.

Bangalore is not like Manhattan or New York

or Bronx or you know, it's a safe

city.

I've been to Bangalore many times, I have

many friends.

So, if your child is going to school,

she's going to go at daytime, so I

don't think so it is unsafe to send

your daughter to a school which is far

away.

It may be half an hour, it may

be one hour.

See to it that you arrange a proper

transportation, whether it be a school bus, whether

it be a proper vehicle which is secure,

I don't think so.

It is risky.

But, what you have to realize that I

do agree with Omer, your husband, because he

is striving for the Akhira.

Imagine, if you're putting your daughter in a

convent school and she starts believing that Jesus

is God or she starts worshipping Jesus Christ,

peace be upon him, will you be able

to forgive yourself?

You know, many a time people give the

excuse that the school is far, therefore, I'm

not sending.

Maybe they are more impressed by the standard

of the convent school as compared to Islamic

schools, but I'm aware that Alhamdulillah in Bangalore,

there are many Islamic schools.

You have a lot of options.

You can surely choose the school you feel

has a better standard which is more close

to Quran and Sunnah.

And even if hypothetically, if the standard is

less than the convent school which is close

to your house, it is preferable and safer

to put your child, whether a daughter or

a son, in Islamic school rather than a

convent school because there are high chances that

your child may go away far from the

Deen.

So, I do agree with Omer that, and

I completely support him, and I would like

to remind the sister that please don't be

so much relaxed and not at all worried

about putting your child in a convent school.

There are high dangers that they may go

far away from the Deen.

It is more dangerous than the danger you're

thinking that's unsafe for a girl to travel

because if she goes far away from the

Deen, that is multiple times more dangerous, more

harmful, more un-Islamic than talking about the

safety of your child.

So, please I request sister that see to

it that and Allah is there to protect

you.

If you, and I do agree with the

statement of Omer, that if he's striving in

the way of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

surely Allah will protect and Bangalore is a

safe city.

How many cases have you heard that young

girls going in Bangalore to school which are

far, they have got problem?

Hardly any cases.

So, and even if it's far and if

it's tiring, Allah will support you.

You'll get a better ajar and one more

thing.

It's good for you also because the beloved

Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that

when a person dies, only three things continue

as sawabichariya.

One is the wealth that you have spent

in his way.

One is the knowledge that you spread about

him, about the Deen.

And the third is pious children praying for

you.

So, if a child is pious and prays

for you, you will benefit.

If your child is not pious, then it

will get no benefit for you in the

akhira.

So, it will not only benefit the child,

it will benefit you also if you put

in a good authentic Islamic school.

Hope that answers the question.