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How can Muslims in the West protect their children from deviance and loss in light of societal challenges?

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To preserve Muslim families in disbelieving lands, conditions must be met both inside and outside the home. Internally: maintaining congregational prayers in the mosque or at home, daily recitation and listening to the Quran, gathering for meals, speaking Arabic as much as possible, adhering to family etiquette, preventing the viewing of immoral films, ensuring children sleep at home and not sending them to distant universities for accommodation, and being diligent about halal food and avoiding forbidden things. Externally: sending children to Islamic schools, going to the mosque for prayers and attending study circles, finding educational and sports activities supervised by Muslims, organizing family camps, going to the holy lands with the children, training children in dawah (inviting to Islam), memorizing the Quran, sending some of them to an Arab country for religious understanding, training children to deliver sermons and lead people in prayer, encouraging them to marry early with righteous Muslim women, resolving family disputes by referring to community leaders, and avoiding dance parties, music festivals, and immoral gatherings, and preventing children from going to churches.

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