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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beshir, Ekram. Answers to frequently asked questions on parenting / Ekram Beshir and M. Rida Beshir.- 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-59008-036-X (alk. paper) 1. Child rearing-Religious aspects-lslam. 2. Parenting-Religious aspects-lslam. 3. Muslim youth-North America-Conduct of life. I. Beshir, Mohamed Rida. II. Title. HQ769.3.B45 2005 297.5'77-dc22

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e would like to express our sincere gratitude to our good friend, Jennifer Templin, for all the time and hard work she pul into editing this book. We will be forever indebt­ ed to her for her gracious support and dedication to this work. May Allah bless her, keep her on the Straight Path and reward her with jamah. We kindly request that every reader make dua for her.

Introduction t various conferences and conventions, when conducting parenting workshops and presenting lectures on the subject of raising children in North American society, we usually allocate time to answer questions from the audience. We try our best during these question and answer sessions to respond in the most comprehensive way. However, with a hot topic such as parenting, particularly in North America, there is never enough time to give detailed answers and, at the same time, respond to as many questions as possible. In addition, some of these questions have been raised more than once in recent years. Because of this, we feel that these questions represent crucial issues of concern occupying the minds of a great majority of parents. As such, they deserve to be addressed in enough detail to be clarified and to provide Muslim parents with the proper advice supported by the Qur'an as well as the teachings of the prophet Muhammad SAAW. This is why we decided to write this series of books on frequently asked questions about raising children in North America. It is important to note that all the questions in this series are actual questions that were asked at one time or another by workshop participants or conference and convention audience members, as well as during our live dialogues on various Websites such as www.masnet.org and www.islamonline.net. Rather than waiting to publish a large volume covering all the questions, we decided to publish this series in small volumes to make the answers to these pressing questions immediately available to our readers. It is also our intention, insha’a Allah, to continue publishing addi­ tional parts in this series, at short intervals, as we continue to receive new questions. We will try, to the extent possible, to group the questions

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