How Does the Faith develops in children? |

How does faith develop? Let's take a look at this as well. The very important point here is that in Muslim families, when a child is born and he hears about God but does not see the evidence of believing in God nor can he observe the proof of belief in God, then God becomes unimportant for him. 

Meaning, the problem of our child is the family in which he is born, God has not been most important nor has He been the greatest priority or a constant reference point. Therefore, the belief of that child in God has not been developed I will give some examples of it, so that this matter shall be more clear. 

Have anyone of you ever felt that in a room at your home, there is a supernatural creature, e.g. a jinn? Has this ever happened? If there is even a doubt about this and he thinks his family members will be afraid of it if, I tell them that I have felt as if there is some supernatural creature in that room. I am not sure but I have felt it and I can not prove what I have felt Now you have felt something which you can not prove and you thought not to share it with your family but in three to four days your actions will Insha Allah, tell everyone that there is something in that room. 

Because now you have started reacting weirdly. As soon as anyone tries to enter that room, you immediately inquire where are you going? Are you going to that room? Okay, I will accompany you If anyone turns off the light you might ask them not to do so If anyone turns on the lights you will ask to turn them off; you are reacting weirdly, if anyone tries to enter that room you follow them. 

So, when you will reactin this way for three to four times, as a result of thiseveryone had an idea that you have some guess in your heartabout the presence of an entity in that room, about the presence of an entity, a minute belief is there in your heart - your family will guess it.

 After a few days, they will ask you to sit to inquire from you about that room what is the problem, if you say, "No! nothing is there", your family will insist for you to tell them the truth;what have you seen in that room?You will say, "No! I have not seen anything."Now the question is you did not tell anything to anyone about the presence of an entity in that room but your actions were enough to tell others about your hidden minute belief on that entity in your heart, your family could see it. 

Despite the fact that this belief is not as big as a tree, but is a particle of the belief that may go away with a blow of wind because you yourself are not sure about its presence, rather it is a minute belief.So this is belief and this is called faith.Believing in Allah means that my actionswill tell others about who do I consider the Greatest See, if we visit an office,where the boss and employees are sitting in the same room and there is nothing to explicitly suggest who is the boss. 

Nobody is wearing a badge of being a boss, everyone is sitting in the same dress,ten people are sitting and only one of them is the boss and nobody is telling, "I am the boss" but everyone is doing their job. 

Within an hour you will be able to identify who is the boss among them. And after two to three hours you will be able to understand the complete hierarchy. Till the evening you will definitely be able to understand the hierarchywho is working under whom and who is the boss of all people present there and who is running all this. You will be able to understand this, though you will not make a speech about it.

The problem of our child is that the person whom we are introducing as our Boss, His importance as a boss is not evident from our actions, meaning our actions and activities are indicating 

that we are not taking our Boss seriously. 

As we sometimes frankly call a person 'boss',

just like friends sometimes call each other 'boss'. 

You can call anyone boss, meaning 

our actions are not indicating at all that 

in reality, whom do we consider the Greatest of all.

 

So after that, how will it change into the belief?

This will happen when the child observes this around him. The problem around him is, 

our words do not match our actions when it comes to believing in God 

Meaning, we are doing a drama, we are 

falsely calling someone our Friend and our Owner 

when in fact, we consider ourselves our owners. 

Just in words we are calling someone our Owner but in reality either we are our own owners or consider someone else our owner. We have not considered God as our owner. This is the problem that is causing disturbance to the faith of our children.