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The Greatest Gift: A Guide To Parenting |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 16:02 |
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The Greatest Gift: A Guide To Parenting
By Dr M. Abdul Bari, London: Ta-Ha, 2002, Pp. 283, ISBN 184200446 (PB).
Some time ago a respected personality in the Asian community, invited to the author’s home, pleads, with swollen eyes and cracked voice for advice. The man tells how his daughter ran away from home and moved in with a non-Muslim man without marrying him. Stories like this are not uncommon in Muslim communities up and down the UK, being a clear symptom of poor parenting and a lack of community support. Abdul Bari, an educationalist, has written a timely and valuable book on parenting. The book highlights some of the social, educational and moral dilemmas faced by the diasporic Muslim community in Britain. This broad and comprehensive, sensitive and at times passionate reading makes for a thought provoking book as well as a practical guide. I can unreservedly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve his or her parenting skills.
Verses of the Glorious Qur’an, pearls of Prophetic wisdom, aphorisms of the pious predecessors (salaf al-salahin), personal anecdotes (which may be regarded as case studies), incisive analysis of social problems, and quotes from western sociologists, psychologists and educationalists characterize this book.
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Building Muslim Families – Challenges and Expectations. |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 15:55 |
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Building Muslim Families – Challenges and Expectations.
By Muhammad Abdul Bari. Ta Ha Publishers Ltd, London, 2002
Pp. 90 ISBN 1-84200-041-1
Keeping the family intact and raising children in Islam are becoming increasingly daunting prospects for Muslims used to strict moral codes and extended families who have settled in the West, where the older generation is struggling to cope in a society that seems to have given up its religious and cultural values and has become amoral and permissive. With premarital sex, ‘living together’, and separating off from parental establishments becoming common as an acceptable alternative lifestyle, one major purpose of this book is to raise awareness among Muslims of the ever-increasing importance of creating desirable and genuine marriages and safeguarding a happy relationship, building families and raising children in true Islam.
Unfortunately, quite a few Muslims in the UK suffer from the same problems as the general population with regard to domestic violence, family breakdowns, one-parent families, sexually transmitted diseases, and general social disintegration (often resulting in a almost total lack of education, alcohol and drug addiction, theft, and virtual uselessness as a citizen). Added to all this certain Muslims contribute their own problems – forced and false marriages, the heartbreak and strains of un-Islamic polygamy, abuses of mahr provisions, divorce proceedings and so on. Bari tackles these issues with a refreshing bluntness and honesty, and desire to alleviate the misery these abuses cause.
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