The author says: I read this advice somewhere and felt it contained very valuable benefits, so I decided to mention it here for the benefit of Muslim sisters.

My Muslim sister!

Allah Almighty has honored you with Islam and has opened your heart to faith. He has granted you rights and obligations that no woman in any previous nation has ever obtained, nor could any woman in any era have attained them. These rights and obligations are such that no parallel exists in all of humanity.

Islam ensures all your rights so that you may gain honor through Islam and firmly hold onto its teachings, which are the path to your happiness in this world and the hereafter. This is so you can fully recognize the great distinctions that this magnificent religion has given you.

It is necessary that you study this great religion deeply to acquire its teachings, so that you have clear evidence and complete reassurance that what this religion has given you is something truly magnificent. By studying Islam in depth, you will also clearly understand that some Muslim women who are influenced by non-Islamic cultures, and who appear busy day and night trying to secure women’s rights, cannot be said to be part of an Islamic movement. Rather, they are merely following a call without research or study. The situation of women under the shade of Islam has no connection with their call.

O My Islamic Sister!

You are living under the shade of a (great) religion that encompasses every aspect of life. You have been honored and dignified in this religion. Your protection comes from your faith in Allah Almighty.

The teachings of Islam, the religion that supersedes all other religions, instruct in your guardianship with complete attention and care. Therefore, it is necessary that under the shade of this excellent religion, your personality should be distinguished from all non-Muslim women. And while adhering to the commands of your Allah, enlighten other righteous Muslim women and present excellent examples of virtue, purity, and honor through your high moral character and good conduct at every appropriate opportunity. When you embody these high morals, you will give other women the right impression, as Islam desires women to have high morals, clean honor, and sound intellect.

O my Islamic sister!

Do not be deceived by the attractive scenes of the world. Otherwise, you will forget the purpose of your precious life. Do not follow the customs of the world and the slippery paths that appear before you. Otherwise, you will end up on paths that you do not need. Recognize what benefits and harms you, and remain completely insightful in your affairs. Learn from the life of a woman who has trampled her own moral values. (While Allah has illuminated your intellect with Islam) Then protect yourself from imitating any woman with whom you share no connection in faith or good morals, because she is characterized by wrong beliefs and bad morals.

Always keep in mind that as long as you firmly hold onto the teachings of your religion, you will certainly be on the right path. Another woman who abandons religious teachings will certainly be in misguidance and falsehood. When you are trying to criticize women who deviate from religious teachings and invite them to the right path, and you seek their reformation but they do not accept your correct words, then exercise patience and tolerance in this situation. Because the confrontation between truth and falsehood, good and evil, those who prefer reformation and those who prefer corruption has been ongoing from the beginning and will continue as long as the heavens and earth remain.

O my sister!

With your steadfastness and good guidance, you have the power to raise righteous generations for society who understand and feel their responsibilities that Allah has placed upon them.

O my sister!

You are the unique being who has the strength to create a school within your home where your children can learn good values. You should be aware of your beneficial role while living in society. Strive to establish the new generation on the strong foundations of virtue and morality, and avoid entrusting your children to non-Muslim teachers or enrolling them in non-Islamic schools. Doing so would mean that you, intentionally or unintentionally, participated in guiding your children toward non-Islamic beliefs, which is impermissible. I seek Allah’s protection for you from becoming a cause of your children’s deviation from Allah’s religion. Allah’s religion is such that He will never accept any other religion from anyone.

Know with certainty that if you do this and spend whatever wealth on providing wrong education to your children, which will go to your enemies and the enemies of Islam—what you give them in exchange for the incorrect upbringing and education of your children—then all the good hopes you have attached to your children will turn to dust.

Eventually, you will see the consequences yourself, which will inevitably appear before you: your children will hold the same thoughts and ideas as the enemies of Islam, will have strong connections with them, and their emotions will represent them. They will not have any special love or affection for you as their mother, nor for their father, nor will they have any attachment to their Islamic faith in their hearts. Their connection will only be with those non-Muslim mentors and teachers.

They may spend their lives with you, but their thoughts and inclinations will be different from yours… similarly, their concepts will be different from yours…

Never think that a non-Muslim person or a non-Islamic institution will raise a Muslim child on Islamic foundations. This will never happen. Stay away from this; I urge you to avoid it.

My Muslim sister!

I return to the beginning: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”

I hope that you will always, in all aspects of your life, adhere firmly to Allah’s commands and stay away from everything that causes Allah’s anger, for this is the path to your happiness. May Allah bless those who speak good words, or who remain silent from evil to achieve safety.

Amen.