“Let the children be our example!”
Children love to demand things from us parents and constantly ask us for something.
They want to have everything and get everything immediately.
They want a lollipop, a new toy, they want their grandma to come, they want to go to their friend's house, they want it to stop raining, they want to be able to watch TV longer.
They ask without getting bored and, above all, they are always persistent and firmly convinced that they have the right to get this and that.
We should take this naive, pure and unspoiled way in which children deal with the request as an example.
The children think they have the right to get “IT” and they will get it.
With this attitude, we adults should also make Dua, we should have faith in Allah that our Dua, if it comes from the bottom of our heart (and we do not ask for anything bad), will be heard and accepted.
Allah says in the Quran: "Ask Me, and I will answer your prayers." (40:60) Quran. It is our duty and even obligation to make dua, and of course to teach it to our children, with firm conviction and trust in Allah. Dua is a simple (yet very important) form of ibada (worship of God). It requires neither ritual purification nor any other prerequisites such as place or time. Dua can be made anytime and anywhere. Therefore, children can learn it even before they learn the obligatory five-times-a-day prayer. Why should we believe that our prayer will be answered and that Allah is pleased to hear it? Allah himself has made it his duty to accept and answer our dua. Ubadah ibn As-Samit reported that the Prophet (saw) said: There is no Muslim on this earth who asks Allah for something but Allah grants his request or averts from him an equivalent evil, unless he asks for something bad or for the severance of kinship.
(Tirmidhi hasan-sahih).
Therefore, we parents should take advantage of our children's natural perseverance and pure, untainted trust and teach them from an early age that they should ask Allah for something first, and then people, because Allah has the power and strength to do everything. And dua also gives us security and a good feeling that we have placed our worries and concerns in Allah's hands.
We adults often do not make dua for various reasons:
-out of arrogance
-out of arrogance
-out of complacency
-Out of arrogance
-out of shame
-out of fear
-Because we think we have too many sins for Allah to hear our supplications
Or even worse: some people think that Allah already has enough to do, so why should I bother Him with my little problems?
But these false thoughts come from Satan.
Allah loves to listen to us when we make dua.
Allah says in the Quran
"And your Lord said, 'Supplicate to Me, and I will answer you. Indeed, those who exalt themselves above My worship will surely enter Hell in humiliation.'" (Quran 40:60)
Let our children take this as an example and make it a daily ritual to ask Allah for something!