ROLE AND PURPOSE OF MUSLIM FAMILY

• • Stable family helps give a child a sense of identity and security, bring the child up in the muslim faith
• • Muslim family is a way to introduce children to the faith (eg having halal food in the home helps teach about faith)
• • Procreation to continue the Muslim faith
• • Having children in the Muslim family to attend Madrasshah to learn about Islam
• • Ummah - grow in faith
• • Rituals when a child is born helps connect them to Islam: Aqiqah (sacrifice of animal when child born), adhaan (recitation of adhaan in right ear)
• • Each person in the family has a role, parents, children, grandparents. Quran teaches to care for parents (46:15)
• • "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me" (51:56)
• • Allah created the world and everything in it (Tawhid)