Islam came to address the entire world and this means that it is open to everyone to embrace. Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds.} [Quran 21:107]
As a result of that openness, which is characteristic of the Islamic religion, many aspects from the East and West might infiltrate into the Muslim community in general, and the Muslim family in particular, which are unfamiliar to the Muslim society, its principles and objectives.
From this perspective, the role of the family is to fortify the Muslim household against such negatives, and it is a great and important responsibility that the parents have to shoulder. Such openness and great mixing have caused many negatives to infiltrate into our homes while we are heedless. Many Muslims might be careless about them, even though they are very dangerous and harmful.
The Prophet, , warned about blind imitation, saying: “You will follow the ways of those who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit, to the extent that were they to enter a lizard’s hole, you would enter it [in imitation of them].” [Al-Bukhari]
The result of such openness to the world appears in the form of different imported aspects that are unfamiliar to our society. Islam does not reject such things altogether but adopts a systematic methodology concerning them:
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