In an age where injustice and violence are rampant, we witness parents pointing at Omar (r.a.) and saying, "We want to raise children like Omar (r.a.)". It is, of course, admirable that parents make such a wish in an age when a selfish, passionate, competitive and insatiable generation trapped in solitary islands comes to life. However, it is interesting that parents who talk about raising just and virtuous children draw the opposite direction with their actions and contradict themselves. Despite the Companions who attach great importance to the development of the child's self-identity and strongly suggest who he is and on what principles he should live his life, today's Muslims, on the one hand, talk about rights, justice and virtues, on the other hand, they pump the love of rank into the child's uncontaminated heart. Before the child is born, they calculate in which schools he will continue his education, which profession he will choose, how much he will earn, what positions he will rise, and they drag him into a conflict and a competition. The child talks, walks, starts school, runs from exam to exam, but does not know what his main responsibilities are and becomes alienated from himself. The child does not even cross the brink of a virtuous life, the child spends all his energy to reach the life that his parents have set up and to take the race to the forefront. While the parents drag the child into a race with no end, they say the names of Omar, Ali, Ebuzer in a low voice… But in the field where thorns are planted, only thorns grow…
This is of course what we wish for our sons and daughters to get higher education, to continue their education in the best schools and to choose the most popular professions. However, if you want to raise children who are just like Omar (r.a.), lover of science like Ali (r.a.), mature and understanding like Abu Baker (r.a), and wise like Osman (r.a.), you should help them recognize their self-identities and strongly emphasize that their primary duty is to be human and remain human. Remember, your word is your mirror and your mind is too numb to notice the discrepancy between the statements you make and the attitude you display. You express that you want to raise children like the Companions, but you are pumping a materialistic point of view to your baby who was born with pure feelings and dragging him into invisible corridors. We understand that you are not sincere in your words, we understand that you do not want to raise Omar, but a Western Adam who has melted into the wheel of the capitalist system...