Category: Prophets & Their Stories

Lying to children-2

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Yes, this is something people are lenient about: lying to children. Lying to children is not permissible; neither to adults nor to children.

They are the ones who will succeed you when you die

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Take care of your children. Your profitable 'trade' [with Allaah] is undoubtedly your children.

Keep a protective eye over your children

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Then, as for you O Father! Observe your children['s activities] – [even] outside the home. Where did they go? Who do they mix with?

Do not be negligent in watching over your children

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[And] many of them are very negligent [of their responsibility] towards their children.

Then he is lying in his love for the Messenger ﷺ

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As for the one who claims that he loves the Messenger ﷺ, and then he does not follow him, or that he introduces an innovation and thinks that he loves the Messenger while he introduces an innovation...