A BBNJ Project:
We get calls to place Muslim foster children, but sadly there aren't many registered. Leaving the child in a non Muslim home.
Make a Difference - Become a Foster Parent
Assalamulikum Wa rahmatulillahi Wa barakatuhu,
When you gaze into baby’s eyes, you know that this little life will be looking to you for love and guidance and indeed this is no trivial matter. Bringing up a kid in accordance with Islam is a responsibility that Allah (swt) has placed squarely on parents' shoulders and they will be accountable for it. U
nfortunately there is a potential threat in our Muslim community that if any Muslim kid fallen into the trap of Child Protection Services (CPS, US law) due to Muslim family's domestic violence, divorce, child abuse, a small injury to kid due to parents negligence, sexual harassments then it is very UNLIKELY that the CPS would give the kid to Muslim foster parents, YES, the kid might go to non-Muslim family and we might lose them permanently. And we had experienced lot of cases falling into this category, where Muslim parents pleaded CPS to hand over their kid to Muslim family, but in vain, the reason being we hardly find Muslim Foster Parents in our Metroplex. It is very difficult for any believer to see an innocent infant/kid/teen being handed over to Non-Muslim family who feed/teach/inject un-Islamic, unethical, immoral attitudes who will Na'udubillah become a non believer. Imagine when you bring the same kid as Muslim foster Parent and sits with the child and talks about Allah and His glorious attributes, His creation, and how we all fit into it, morals, manners and etiquette, devotion and prayer, decent living, call to religion, and sense of devotion, how to greet each other, speaking, prayer, business conduct, and dress, is about the Haqq, the ultimate reality. He or she is feeding his fitrah and building into kid a correct world view and that world view will be part of the kid as long as he lives." If we observe carefully the depth of above paragraph, we wonder how much it pays back for a parent to bring up an obedient slave of Allah swt. For this great effort we are seeking MUSLIM FOSTER PARENTS to come forward and register and we all pray for them to make this a key to Jannah in sha Allah and we expect next call from Child Protection Services to hand over a Muslim kid will go to Muslim family not to a non-Muslim family.