How do you know that you’ve succeeded as a parent? (Future parents take note.) If your child comprehends this āyah. Also, if your child reasons any where close to the reasoning of the following child, then you’re doing parenting right: Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿOmar was visiting one of his ministers in a foreign land, he sees the minister’s child (who was about five years old), so he playfully asks, ❝Which land is better; ours or yours?❞ The child confidently replies, ❝Ours.❞…
[He said, “Indeed, I wish to wed you one of these, my two daughters, on [the condition] that you serve me for eight years; but if you complete ten, it will be [as a favour] from you. And I do not wish to put you in difficulty. You will find me, if Allah wills, from among the righteous.”] al-Qaṣaṣ:27 This is how it goes down in the homes of the righteous. Prophet Shuʿayb offers Mūsā, prior to the latter’s prophethood,…