The Letter

 

One day, I was contacted by a Muslim sister from Germany, the mother of one of my fourth-grade students. Her request left me deeply shaken. I had heard about this issue before, but the photos from her child’s textbook, which she attached to her message, made me realize just how serious the situation was. It stayed with me for days.

 

Here’s what she wrote:

"Many sisters here in Germany follow your blog and respect your opinion. Could you please speak out about the sex education classes, where children are being taught about ‘free love’…"

 

She included screenshots from the textbook. One of them said that if a man and a woman love each other and both want it, they can have sexual relations… Then it went on to describe how people can give each other pleasure and physical satisfaction, and so on.

 

Her message weighed heavily on me. I knew this wasn’t something I could address in a short Reels video. But I care deeply about our Islamic Ummah, especially about how we raise our children within Islam, and I want to support parents, particularly given how many Muslim families, for various reasons, have been forced to emigrate to the West, where public policy is designed to assimilate children and turn them into part of Western society.

 

Before I go further, I’d like to share a little about myself and to explain why I couldn’t stay silent.

 

Along this path, I also found my life partner. Together, we’ve built a strong family, and by Allah’s grace, we’ve been blessed with five children.

 

As they grew, I noticed a serious gap: there was a lack of Islamic children’s books. That’s when I started publishing a series called "Instructive Stories for Little Muslims."

 

Later, when my eldest daughter was 12, my son 9, and the youngest just 4, another issue became clear: children don’t like to read. To motivate them (not just mine, but children across our region), I launched a project: the "Read! In the Name of Your Lord!" children’s intellectual competition.

 

The idea was simple: kids would read books on various Islamic topics–Quranic tafsir, hadith, stories of the Companions and Prophets, the biography of the Prophet Muhammad–and then compete based on what they’d learned. The project was a great success and spread to ten regions across Crimea. It continues to attract hundreds of children aged 9 to 13 and has already expanded beyond the peninsula. 

 

For eight years, I also held weekly classes for boys and girls where we studied Islam: aqeedah based on reason, the life of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم, and other Islamic subjects. Eventually, at parents’ requests, these classes moved online. For this, I created a course program called "Young Thinker", which now has about a hundred children attending online.

 

I believe that after reading this summary, it’s clear why I decided to write a book about raising children in Islam. But one particular incident left a deep mark on me, and became the final push.

 

A friend told me about a Muslim family with two children who left Kyiv for Germany after the war began. The older son started school there, and one day a teacher noticed his haircut and asked who cut his hair. The boy answered, "My parents." The teacher then asked, "Did they ask you what kind of haircut you wanted?" The boy said, "No." After this conversation, the family faced scrutiny. After several similar incidents where parents ignored their children’s opinions, child protective services decided to temporarily remove the children from the family and place them with same-sex "couples," where they stayed for some time.

 

Later, a court hearing was held, and the children were given the choice to live permanently either with their biological family or with the foster family. The children chose the foster family.

 

The parents tried to get them back, appealing to the embassy and lawyers, but were told the law was on the side of the children and the foster family, and that there was nothing they could do to help.

 

You might say these cases are rare and mostly happen in troubled families. But statistics show that the number of such children is growing every year, proportionally to the increase in migrants in Europe.

 

Regardless, it’s clear that Western countries promote a life philosophy fundamentally opposed to Islam. They actively impose these views on our children.

 

What does this worldview promote? First and foremost, individual freedom. That means a person is free to express themselves as they wish: identifying as a woman, a man, or even a genderless being; entering into any kind of relationship with whoever they want, however they want; a girl or boy can live wherever they want and leave for long periods without parental permission, and so on.

 

It also promotes freedom of religion. This is an important freedom in the West, but it seems to work only one way. If someone wants to leave Islam, become an atheist, a Christian, or a pagan, the state will defend their right. But if someone wants to dress according to Sharia, pray on time, attend Jumu’ah, or fast during Ramadan, then instead of protection, they face obstacles and restrictions from the state. I will explain this in more detail later.

 

In conclusion, the idea to write this book grew out of the reality we live in, from my experience as a mother of many children–I have boys and girls aged from 6 to 20–and also thanks to the Young Thinker project, a course I’ve been leading for two years aimed at shaping an Islamic mindset in teenagers.

 

I decided to write this book to help parents raise God-fearing, resilient, and conscious Muslims who will carry the message of our beautiful religion wherever they go.

 

Children are our future, and I ask Almighty Allah to make them worthy sons and daughters of the Islamic Ummah, to unite it, and make it the leading and best Ummah in the world!

 

Allahumma, help us raise righteous Muslims who will love You and Your Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم above all else in this life!

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