Some Basic Principles That Will Help Us Face Anticipated Problems or Resistance From Our Children

Choosing the right time and place to go about building our children’s belief system is very important.

Equally important is to have a positive, loving relationship with our children that minimises resistance to our opinions and suggestions.

However, resistance does happen, and children, especially those exposed to a secular trend of thinking, tend to question a lot and require material proof for some of the unseen beliefs.

Therefore, here are two of the basic principles that can help us face such anticipated problems or resistance:

1- There are certain events, places, or people that certainly exist despite the fact that we haven’t seen or experienced them in our lives.

Events like World War II, places like a tiny village in Thailand, and people like Christopher Columbus are examples to show that when we receive information that has been passed on to us from trustworthy people over the years, this information becomes a fact we believe in.

The reason is that so many truthful people agree on this fact, and their passing it on gives it credibility, making it worth believing.

2- We cannot deny the existence of certain things just because we are unable to reach them with our limited senses.

For example, if we are in a quiet room, that doesn’t mean that there are no noises; that just means that we can’t hear any noises that are higher or lower than the certain range our ears are equipped for.

Therefore, admitting the limitations of our senses will give us flexibility in accepting and believing in an unseen world.

Finally, we ask Allah Most High to grant us the logic to appeal to our children’s minds, the sensitivity to appeal to their hearts, and the wisdom to choose the right time, the right approach, and the right words.

We also ask Allah Most High to open their hearts to true belief.

“But Allah has endeared the faith to you has beautified it in your hearts, and has made disbelief, wickedness, and disobedience (to Allah and his Messenger) hateful to you. Such are they who are rightly guided.” (Al-Hujurat 49:

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