Role Of Successful Parenting In Islam

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Throughout the civilized world governments, institutions, people in authority and the public create rules to protect society in order to establish a safer world. The most comprehensive and agreeable rules to all humanity at large are those derived from the Devine Revelation, namely the Qur’ān and Sunnah. Without these rules and guidances, human beings would lose all bearing and sense of morality and society would fall into anarchy and chaos.

In Islam, parents play an important role in the process of upbringing the children. Indeed children and future generations will be the leaders of tomorrow and thus their upbringing is a matter of great importance and key to whether we can maintain a peaceful,

Successful parenting also requires a lot of planning and there are some crucial prerequisites. This is also the aim of Islamic education. As parents, they are accountable to their responsibility and must adhere to the parenting personality development once they are appointed as parents upon delivering the good nurturing. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first and most important teachers. Parents should always observe their personality or characteristics as they are regarded as powerful role-model to their children. Having good parenting personality especially within parents is very crucial crucial as recorded in the Qur’ān, Sīrah Luqmān (history) between Luqmān al-Hakīm and his son, as well as in Sīrah Maryam between Zakariyya and Maryam, and also between Maryam and her son ‘Īsa (PBUH). Indeed as Allah said in the

To highlight the guiding principles for personality development of parents based on Sūrah Maryam.

3. To ascertain the guiding principles of parental personality development in children’s education from Sūrah Luqmān.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

No study have been done under this topic especially research based on Sūrah Maryam and Luqmān analytically. Many of the existing researches related to parenting are general without emphasizing on the personality development itself. Other researches done talked about the basic principles of parenting derived from various sources. Therefore, current study will fill the loopholes found in the existing researches by emphasizing the principles of parenting personality development derived from Sūrah Maryam and Luqmān.

1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This research is mainly qualitative in nature. It will be conducted from the principle sources of parenting personality development as provided in the Qur’ānic interpretations on Sūrah Maryam and Luqmān. This will be followed with contemporary books, articles, which are directly or indirectly related to parenting personality development for children education. The present study adopts two scientific research methods which are