In the past, Muslim women were distinguished for entertaining their children with stories that amused them and instilled Islamic principles in their minds.

Why, then, do cultured Muslim women leave their children to be victims of stories written by immoral people and disbelievers, who distort Islamic history and attack Islamic principles?

Let Muslim women contribute to print and audio mass media as much as they can. Even Islamic songs (Anasheed) should be composed for our children to sing instead of letting them repeat songs that have no moral content. This will make our children sing pure words that reflect the bright image and supreme principles of Islam and will attract the hearts of Muslim children to virtues.

The same thing applies to magazines, stories, and novels that tell how people deceive each other to obtain money. They inspire our children with mistaken values and thoughts of violence, irresponsibility, undutifulness to parents, as well as other bad morals. Muslim women should make use of these mediums so as to be capable of educating their children with what is good, develop their creed, cultivate their minds, and entertain them at the same time.

The most dangerous channel of the mass media is the internet and satellite TV channels. It rivals the parents in guiding the children through a well-planned policy of attraction and invasion. The human devils are those who furnish the television with everything that destroys virtues. The former French president, De Gaulle, once talked about the influence of television, saying, “Give me this screen and I will change the French people.”

Many families have given up their role in raising their children to adopt the Islamic creed and have let the television guide them and sow in them the concepts and ideologies that are alien to the Islamic creed and culture. In this context, we understand the duty that cultured Muslim women should fulfill. They should utilize their potential. If they have the ability, they should write stories, compose Islamic songs, or write dialogues or articles to save their children from the tools of domestic and foreign destruction.

Dear Muslim sisters,

Do not excuse yourselves by saying that your body is weak, that you have many obligations to fulfill, or that you are always pressed for time, since the upright Sharee‘ah instructs Muslims to make utmost use of their time, health, and wealth. It was narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allaah be pleased with them, that he quoted the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, as having said: “Take advantage of five [matters] before [the advent of] five [matters]: your youth before your old age; your health before your sickness; your richness before your poverty; your free time before your preoccupation; and your life before your death.”

If women organize their daily activities and make good use of every second of their time and not waste it in needless talk, they will never be heard complaining about time restraints. They should pay attention to their duties as callers to what is good and work as good examples for others to follow. They should enrich awareness in the fields of upbringing and health in a way that brings benefit to the Muslim generations and Islamic society at large. They should also exert their utmost effort to find Islamic alternatives for the massive momentum of intellectual attacks. They should further defend religion in a society of wicked people who continue to scheme and work to distract Muslims from adhering to their religion.

Muslim women should not relent to transient comforts, needless sleeping, and laziness that has affected many of them. They are advised to actively fulfill their duty toward their Ummah (Muslim nation). They are required to do all that they can to bring up righteous generations. They should utilize their time in useful ways and employ each suitable opportunity. It is hoped that they will substantially contribute to removing darkness from the Ummah and communicate virtue to the future generations. Otherwise, our hopes will be confined to our chests and our generations will be at the rear of the caravan instead of taking its lead.



(Islamweb)