Successful Women

Shaikh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī Al-Madkhalī, may Allāh protect him, said:

The best and most successful work of a Muslim woman is her staying in her home and dedicating herself to raising her sons and daughters upon Islamic manners, and character; to bring them up holding on to correct religious understandings that will protect them from ignorance and false beliefs.

[These women] will then have conferred a great amount of good to themselves, their sons, their daughters, and their society of Muslims.

In fact, with Allah’s help, they will have built a cultured society of Muslims, elevated in its religion, character, manners, and refined civility based upon truthfulness, trustworthiness, and honor.

But if they abandon their homes, families, and children, what kind of generation will arise from such neglect?!!

Source: Majmūʿ Al-Fatāwá li-l-Shaikh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī Al-Madkhalī, vol. 4, p. 475.