The holy month of Ramadan comes as a valuable opportunity, which requires us to invest in it in raising children and cultivating in them what we want of authentic values that may have distracted us from them for the rest of the days. First, we must leave all the negative messages that we pass on about the month of Ramadan on social media platforms and councils, and on the tongues of some educators and media professionals, unfortunately, who pass that the month of Ramadan is for sleep and the responsibility of preparing the table, cooking and blowing!
In most meetings, articles and letters, I did not find a single line talking about the need to invest in children and generations and the way to create an intellectual and educational plan to manage them optimally towards what their personal and national future requires. It is an opportunity to provide children with role models in assuming responsibility, and also urge them to assume responsibilities and tasks within the family. driving and managing their time especially with studying and fasting; Therefore, the family and society should avoid broadcasting messages that would frustrate and weaken their determination, and educate them to be negligent and negligent.
The month of Ramadan also comes as an opportunity to build authentic memories for children who come to eat breakfast with them.. share their Ramadan programs.. pass on advice, experiences and authentic stories.. follow their prayers and recitation of the Qur’an and compete with them in that.. they must feel that the month of Ramadan is a month of responsibility and that work is like it. Fasting, praying, and reading the Qur’an is worship, and worship requires effort and perseverance. These great meanings, if inculcated from childhood in the hearts of children, will then settle in themselves when they grow up, especially since the meanings of giving, exerting effort, and altruism are magnified in the month of Ramadan. “The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was the most generous of people in goodness and the most generous in the month of Ramadan.” Therefore, involve your children in your social work, in the process of paying zakat, and in taking care of the embodiment of social responsibility towards the neighborhood and communicating with neighbors and the people of the neighborhood.
Ramadan is a station full of bags of change for the better at the level of moral, religious, psychological and social education and everything that comes to mind.. Ramadan is the councils of activity, movement, science, support, cooperation, construction and development.
In conclusion.. May Allah accept from us and from you the good deeds in this holy month.
Mona Al-Otaibi