Art of survival : Doesn’t everyone teach their children what they believe is right?

Doesn’t everyone teach their children what they believe is right?

Isn’t that important in the art of survival?

Isn’t that what everyone should do?

However limited each person’s knowledge may be, that’s just how it works, how it has to be done.

We shouldn’t refrain from teaching today’s truth today just because some other truth may take shape tomorrow, making today’s truth seem wrong then.

Until children grow up and become capable of reaching their own decisions, protecting them from what feels dangerous or wrong to us is simply the safety that life demands for life’s sake.

Not just humans — every living species shows this same care when it comes to their young.

Anyone can teach their children in this way.

It’s not a great virtue if someone doesn’t teach their children this way, nor a great wrong if they do.

And just because some people don’t teach their children this way, it isn’t wrong for others to do so.

For anyone to be able to teach children in this way, they themselves must have something they are convinced is right.

Those who don’t have something they’re convinced is right cannot teach it to their children. But for those who are convinced and do teach it, that isn’t a wrong done to the children.

Not having such a conviction is no one else’s fault.

There’s no point carrying envy or hatred toward those who do have such a conviction, just because one lacks it oneself.

Is there any society that doesn’t teach children what is right, what seemed right at that time?

Isn’t that exactly what our education itself is?

Isn’t teaching today’s truth today precisely the goal and function of education?

Who said that teaching children what seems right to us means they can’t choose something else that seems right to them once they grow up?

Islam belongs only to the one who has reached adulthood; religion belongs only to the adult. One becomes a Muslim — or a believer of any faith — only by choosing it as an adult.

Each person must, as an adult, choose and recite the Shahada (testimony) — every day, multiple times.

Islam, being a Muslim, is not something that exists merely through birth, imitation, or ritual practice.

A person becomes a Muslim only when they choose it as an adult and declare it. The choice is what matters.

Ensuring the knowledge and freedom needed to choose is essential.

Life itself is a test, and that test consists of the choices made between right and wrong within it — this is something Islam and the Muslim identity define precisely and clearly: not through birth, not without choice, but only through choice, only by granting freedom.

One becomes Islam and Muslim only through choice — by changing oneself, growing, transforming, through freedom.

So there’s no need to fear religious conversion, nor should there be.