This February 2020, our little Muawiyah turns 2 years old. Alhamdulillah it has been such a great blessing from Allah and a wonderful learning experience raising and caring for this beautiful gift which Allah bestowed upon us after 8 years of marriage. In “graduating” from this infant phase, we decided to write and compile a few articles to share our reflections and experiences – and some advance plans – in raising the Little Man throughout these 2 years.
Our intention of putting this stuff out there twofold: firstly, as students and first-timers (i.e. noobs) in this field of parenting, we still have a lot to learn from other, more experienced parents out there, so we would love to hear any insights, suggestions, feedback, or second views from others – especially as we move into his toddler phase.
Secondly, as these articles represent first-hand experience applying the theoretical parenting knowledge we have been learning from Islamic and contemporary Western sources, we would like to share them in hopes that others will find benefit in them, perhaps even enhance them and take it many steps further (and if so, we’d love to hear from you too!).
Some of the articles we had in mind are as follows:
1. Treating our Child with Respect
2. Our Approach to Prohibitions, Restrictions, and Rejections
3. Muawiyah, Masjid, and Me - Experience in our Daily Masjid Excursions
4. “Creative Little Fella”
5. Nurturing good habits
6. Constant Love and Affection (But Avoid Spoiling Them!)
7. Cat-Lover Boi: Developing EQ
8. Addressing “How to Develop A Passion towards the Quran? The Sunnah? The Deen?”
9. Screen Time: What We Learnt
10. “Be A Man”: the Crucial Role of the Husband, especially in the early months
11. “You will Raise Your Child in the same way you were raised?”: identifying Cultural Blind Spots
12. Life In Miri
13. “I Am Going To Miss This”: Enjoying the moments (and everything in between)
14. “Going Through A Phase” – A continuous work in progress
15. Handling the Feelings of ‘guilt’ and inadequacy as a parent
Looking forward to it!
رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا
“Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring who will be the comfort of our eyes (Qurratu A’yun),
and make us leaders to the Muttaqun (those who have consciousness and fear of Allah)” (Al-Furqan 25:74)
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ made the following du'aa for Muawiyah (bin Abi Sufyan):
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْهُ هَادِيًا مَهْدِيًّا وَاهْدِ بِهِ
"O Allah, make him a person who guides (others),
one who is guided,
and guide (others) by him!"
(Narrated by At-Tirmidzi)
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