The Importance of Enhancing Heart’s Servitude in Raising Children

This study, entitled “The Importance of Enhancing Heart’s Servitude in Raising Children” addresses the significance and necessity of fostering the servitude of the heart in the upbringing of children. It aims to highlight the evidences supporting this concept from the Qur’an and the Sunnah, as well as to identify the means that facilitate its development and the consequences of neglecting it in the educational process. The researcher adopts an inductive, analytical, and inferential methodology. The study is structured into an introduction and four main sections: (1) the importance of childhood as a stage for instilling creed, (2) the importance of the servitude of the heart in child rearing, (3) the means that assist in achieving this, and (4) the negative consequences resulting from its neglect, followed by a conclusion and indexes. Among the key findings of the study is that the educational methodology in the Qur’an and the Sunnah is founded upon instilling sound creed prior to reforming outward actions. The positive outcomes of this approach include raising children with strong character, steadfastness in principles, consciousness of Allah, and reliance upon Him. The study also concludes that corruption, deviation, weak personality, and susceptibility to negative influences are among the most significant consequences of neglecting the servitude of the heart in upbringing. The study offers several recommendations, most notably the necessity for educators to give due attention to the cultivation of the servitude of the heart in child rearing due to its profound impact on behavior, as well as the importance of conducting field studies to obtain precise results regarding the positive effects of this concept on behavior and the negative consequences of its absence.