Fathers’ responsibility

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

“Therefore, he who left the question of teaching his child without attention, did not benefit him and left him to himself, he acted badly in the highest degree. most of the spoiled children have become so because of their fathers, who left them without attention and did not teach them the duties and desirable actions of religion. The fathers lost them in their childhood, which was the reason that these children, becoming adults, did not benefit either themselves or their fathers.

Once one of the people began to reproach his child for his disobedience, to which his child answered him: “You treated me badly in childhood, and I treated you badly in age, you lost me in infancy, and I lost you in old age! »

“Tuhfatul-maudud”, p. 358