Zakir Naik – Can We Admit Our Kids in Covenant Schools
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A representative from Bangalore, India talks about the safety of sending young children to Islamic schools, as it is close to their home. They suggest that it is safer to send children to school in a Convent School rather than a traditional Islamic school. The representative also emphasizes the importance of having a strong faith in Islam and not being discouraged by young children going to school.
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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.