Life in the West

Raising children in the West is not easy

Though the uninformed think it should be breezy

Parents and children have to make many choices

From different quarters they hear different voices

Parents are overworked, children are overscheduled

Mothers specially need to stay home with the caboodle

Ask a young one how dreary it is to come to an empty home

Many a mischief are cooked up under their hairy dome

Parents need to learn to sacrifice for their children’s sake

Do away with big screen TVs and cars of the finest make

Wives and mothers have bigger investments in marriage and kids

Fathers are too busy making a living, can’t always be in their midst

Our Maola taught us to be good momins destined for Jannat

What parent wouldn’t like to see their children reap the same barakat

Give your kids the best preparationn you can to succeed in this world

But also take them to deeni madrasa to learn about the other world

Cooperate and listen to deeni madrasa volunteer teachers

Don’t argue or belittle them, instead cheer them from the bleachers

Deeni taalim and madrasa doesn’t stop after misaq is done

Then attend sabaqs of local Aamil for your knowledge to broaden

Maola Ali said,”learning process continues from mother’s lap to the grave”

No shame in learning at any age if it is the knowledge that you crave

Acquiring great knowledge and superior capabilities is of no value

Unless you add to them honor, truth, integrity and virtue

Wives and mothers are like the long pole in our tent

They starch our spines and provide fragrance and scent

Learn to treat them respectfully and honorably

By not doing that, many an Einsteins died miserably

You must take Maola Burhanuddin’s teachings right from the start

May he live healthy and long ta qiyamat, this comes from my heart

Abd-e-Syedna, TUS – Shk. Husain Jamali, Anjuman-e-Burhani, Los Angeles, CA.