Parents

Parents bear the greatest responsibility in tasfiyyah wa tarbiyyah.

The Prophet ﷺ said: “Each of you is a shepherd, and each of you will be asked about his flock. The man is a shepherd over his household, and he will be asked about his flock…” — [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (893), Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (1829)]

The Qur’an warns that children are a trial: Allah says: “Your wealth and your children are only a trial, whereas Allah — with Him is a great reward.” 

— [Sūrah al-Taghābun 64:15].

Shaikh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān حفظه الله said in his Sharḥ al-Uṣūl al-Thalāthah: “Allah tests the servant with his wealth and his children — will he undertake their rectification and upright tarbiyyah upon goodness, or will he neglect them and waste them?” This is a direct application of the evidence above, showing that children are a test that either raise a parent in reward or drag him into regret.

• Purification (Tasfiyyah) at Home: Guidance articles and checklists that help parents identify and remove non-Islamic influences from their homes (e.g., superstitions, harmful media, innovated practices). Parents are encouraged and taught through resources how to establish the correct understanding of Tawḥīd and Sunnah as the foundation of the household.
   
• Cultivation (Tarbiyyah) Responsibilities: Reminders and Qur’an–Sunnah based lessons emphasize the parent’s duty of nurturing. For example, printable sheets of key Ayāt and Aḥādīth (like al-Isrāʾ 17:24).  Articles encourage parents to be righteous role models and to regularly make duʿāʾ for their children, just as Prophet Ibrahim (ʿalayhis-salām) did. 

• Printable Resources & Handouts: Downloadable materials (PDFs) for home use — such as structured duʿāʾ memorization cards, simplified biographies of the Sahabah for family reading — and ensuring tarbiyyah can continue consistently at home.

• Articles on Parenting Challenges: Articles addressing current issues parents face — social media, secular schooling, peer influence — all explained through The Qur’an, Sunnah, and Salafī scholarship. These equip parents with knowledge to face today’s fitan without depending on external and non-Islamic methodologies.

 Hasten to cultivate your children upon righteousness — before it’s too late!

Notes:

Tasfiyyah; To purify and correct—our heart, (including homes and classrooms) by removing anything that contradicts The Qur’ān and Sunnah upon the understanding of the Salaf (pure Islam)— whether wrong beliefs, innovated practices, or harmful habits.

Tarbiyyah; is to nurture, cultivate, and educate children step by step upon the Qur’ān and the Sunnah, as understood by the Salaf al-Ṣāliḥ. It means raising them upon correct creed and sound belief, establishing them in prayer, instilling noble manners, and cultivating love for Allah, His Messenger ﷺ, and the entirety of Islām. 

Shaykh al-Albānī رحمه الله said: “The key to a return of the glory of Islām is two matters: tasfiyyah (purification) and tarbiyyah (education). Tasfiyyah means purifying Islām from what has entered into it of shirk, innovations, weak and fabricated narrations, and the mistakes of scholars. Tarbiyyah means cultivating the young generation upon this purified Islām giving to them a correct Islamic education from the start, so that they grow upon it without deviating. ” 

— [Shaykh al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Mawārid al-Naqiyyah, introduction; also referenced in Ṣifah Ṣalāt al-Nabī introduction]