Comments on: Restoring Balance In An Individualized Society: The Islamic Perspective on Parent-Child Relationships

By: Sonia

Sonia — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:01:36 +0000

Islam also states children of divorced parents should be sent to live with their fathers after the mother remarries. This is what was done to me and my sibling. That felt like abandonment

By: Summiya Shaikh

Summiya Shaikh — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:43:23 +0000

I appreciate you taking the time to engage so thoughtfully. When love, rights, or democracy are detached from obligation and knowledge, institutions and families weaken rather than strengthen. Islam puts a lot of weight on knowledge, responsibility, and accountability, both in families and in society as a whole. That feels like a real contrast to systems that increasingly value comfort over character.

By: Amer Rizvi

Amer Rizvi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:12:28 +0000

Islam calls for boundaries and dignity; neither is reflected in your comment.

By: GregAbdul

GregAbdul — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:27:12 +0000

This is a BEAUTIFUL article Sister. May Allah reward you for reminding us of what is clearly spelled out in the Quran. Such excellent speech, I hate to add, as if I could speak on this level, but I humbly add: The Quran says Nuh (AS) had a son who refused to obey. The Prophet had an uncle that was an enemy of Islam and a pagan. Some of us come from cultures where blood ties are everything. The basis for Muslim family unity is ISLAM…so when the murtads in the family cut up, we don’t need to execute them as it says in Reliance of the Traveller. But you don’t get to spit on Islam and then sit in my home teaching me about “unconditional love.” Jannah, nor being in a good state with Allah is “unconditional.” Too many young people know conditions when you go on that white man’s job or do business. Then walk into the parents’ home and think gravity and physics don’t apply for the people who raised them.

By: Amer Rizvi

Amer Rizvi — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:39:48 +0000

Beautiful message, Alhamdulillah. Honoring parents is truly a timeless value. Growing up in Pakistan, I was fortunate to be raised in a culture where this respect for parents was deeply rooted and practiced not only by Muslims, but also by other faith communities.

By: Hajara

Hajara — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:46:38 +0000

JazakAllahu Khairan for the insightful and impactful writing

By: GregAbdul

GregAbdul — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:38:32 +0000

a little excited, sorry….unconditional love is the Western idea that smashes into Islam and breaks families. Western children are taught no one gets to require anything of them, not even that they work hard in school. Parents in the West are supposed to love unconditionally, so that later on the children can abandon them to a nursing home or to die alone. The Universtity system in America is breaking rapidly, financed by haram crooked loan schemes that put children in debt for decades after they graduate. This dumbing down is a lot of it. Islam depends so much on knowledge, while many Western societies are going away from education because it is too much of a way for everyone to be equal. Authoritarianism is for people who cannot think and let the cult think for them. Democracy requires respect for those around you based on knowledge. Time is proving that Islam is more pro democracy than the other major religions.