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| Ramadan Parenting Challenge 2014 |
Verily your hearing and
sight and heart – all of them – will be called to account. (Qur’an 17:36)
Not only do you fast
your stomach, tongue and eyes, you must also fast your ears as well. The ears fast by
turning away from listening to falsehoods, lewd talk and vain talk. Allah says
in the Qur’an: And when they hear al-laghw (dirty, false, evil and vain talk),
they withdraw from it and say, “To us our deeds and to you your deeds. Peace be
to you. We seek not the way of the ignorant.” (28:55)
The ears fast by
listening to the recitation of the Qur’an, Islamic lectures, beneficial
knowledge and advice, and good speech in order to remember Allah, to reflect
and to be guided.
What this means to the
parent is that she should turn on the recitation of the Qur’an. These days
there are so many devices that could play the Qur’an: smart phone, tablet, Qur’an
reader, pen, laptop and computer. Nearly all are mobile devices that children
can carry with them from room to room and are highly interactive. You could
download Qur’an apps for your smart phone and tablet for young children to
listen and engage in. My children love listening to the Qur’an on their ipad
and this is how they learn to memorise it. They could repeat an ayat over and over again until they have
memorized it and move onto the next one. It is highly interactive and they
control the pace of their learning and listening, and even their choice of
reciters.
The same thing goes for
teenagers and Islamic lectures – download them onto a mobile device and give it
to them to listen. Schedule it into their day where they need to listen to at
least one lecture or one piece of advice, or even an Islamic story. There are
so many resources available on the internet, you just need to search for them.
After they have finished listening, have them jot down a summary into a book.
This will ensure that they had paid attention and take away with them something
from it.
Challenge for today is
to:
- Stay away and turn away from evil and vain talk.
- Schedule in listening time for Qur’an, Islamic lectures/stories for your children (and yourself).
Do these and continue
them throughout Ramadan.
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