A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE ISLAMIC NURTURING FRAMEWORK

A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE ISLAMIC NURTURING FRAMEWORK

Human Life passes through different phases. Every phase has some rules and guidelines. The same rules and guidelines are termed as the framework of that phase. For e.g. Moral framework, Economic Framework, Familial Framework, Political framework, the Parenting/nurturing framework etc. Among these frameworks, the nurturing framework is of prime importance. This is the basic building block of all other frameworks and societal systems because it is through proper nurturing (Of children) only that all other societal systems can be improved and success achieved. In the absence of this framework, success in any phase an field of life is almost inconceivable as our observations testify and every person is seeing with his/her own eyes that somewhere the familial framework is suffering and somewhere else the economic framework is corrupted. Somewhere the political framework is disordered and somewhere some other framework has become torpid

 IMPORTANCE OF PROPER NURTURING.

Islam has accorded high importance to proper nurturing of children. The Lord says, "O believers! Save yourself and your relations from the fire of Hell."-Surah Tahreem. In this holy verse, the believers have been commanded to save themselves and their dependants from the fire of hell. Dependants includes wife, children etc. but children are of import. Childhood is the first phase of human life. Children are like those green saplings whose future shape depends on how you mould, model and regulate them today. That is why Islam has accorded prime importance to the proper raising and nurturing of children and has framed rule and guidelines for it.

The wise and sagacious people of this world constitute some rules and guidelines based on their experience. With change in circumstances and situations, they become unusable. But this is the specialty of the Islamic nurturing framework that in spite of changes in circumstances and people, it remains a guiding light for all humanity. All the children that come into this world are born on a single nature, as the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said, "Every child is born on Islam. The parents make a Jew or a Christian or a fire-worshipper out of that child. The way an animal gives birth to a unflawed animal. Have you ever seen them with their ears pierced? Then Hazrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) recited the verse "This is Allah's creation, on which He has created people; there is no change in Allah's creation and this religion is "

When a child comes into this world, the best of abilities, pure thought and speech, crystal clear heart and soul and all the good qualities of the body and the soul are entrusted to the child. But the society seeks to influence the child. If the hidden abilities are not awakened, the child loses its value and honor like an uncut diamond, and turns into a stone in spite of being a diamond.

Hazrat Ayub bin Moosa (May Allah be pleased with him) narrates on the authority of his grandfather that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said, "No father ever gave his progeny a gift better that good manners."- Jame Tirmizi, Vol 2 Pg no. 16, Hadith no. 1875.