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Rule number one, there are no rules.

Anybody who tells you that he or she knows the secret of raising children

anybody who tells you that if you follow this rule you will become or you will

have a great child that person clearly has no children of his or her own.

And this is the reality that every parent knows about.

I remember when I first started studying at the Islamic University of Medina, when I used to come back in the summers to give hoodbaz and just give lectures and what not, the first summer I came back and I had just finished the Arabic program and I was asked to give Hudbaz around Houston and people will come up to me

and they would say, you know, give us some talks about how to raise children.

Now at the time I wasn't even married, much less have kids of my own and so they would say give

us talks about how to raise children and I thought to myself that's a good topic let me

go back to Medina this was the summer let me go back and let me study the fIC of raising children.

You know, I'm sure the books of FIC have entire sections about what you should do,

what are the manual techniques about raising children.

And of course, when you actually start studying Fich as every person knows

there are more rules in the books of Fich about will do and what breaks will do than

about children and how to raise children or how to make sure that they are upon good manners and whatnot.

The books of Fich don't discuss children rearing.

And in fact, even to be brutally honest, you're not going to find detail rules in any of the books of

Hadith or even Adab or anything of this nature.

Yes, you do find anecdotes.

Yes, you do find generic guidelines.

You do find beautiful Ahadith about the seer of the prophet,

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