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152 age. A child who starts experiencing Allah ’ s gracious favors through Salat becomes a spiritual person in childhood. Allah is always his Guardian and there starts developing in him a piety that is born of a true relation with Allah. No training or education in the world can bestow on man that inner holiness which understanding and love of Allah does. c) Adorn Your Children with Taqwa : The love and fear of Allah should be instilled in their hearts from childhood. It is most important that they become Muttaqi (righteous) from childhood, by making their environment clean and holy. Do not do anything that will make them dislike religion and inclined to the world. Huzoor (rh) explained Taqwa in childhood as, “ An apparently wise measure that is devoid of Taqwa is generally called ‘ cleverness ’ by the world. Protect your children from such shallow cleverness. Some children are saucy and play tricks to outdo others and it becomes a habit. They use the same sauciness and trickery in religious matters as well and at times they are harmed by the acrimony of their own insolence. ” 5) Inculcating High Morals in Children : Pay special attention to the Tarbiyat of these children. Some specific aspects mentioned by both Khulafa are summarized below: a) Truthfulness: Teach your Waqf-e-Nau child to love truthfulness and hate lying. Parents will have to be more truthful than before and will have to attend to their own training. Be cautious and careful during conversation in your own home and avoid lying, even in gossip or jest. b) Contentment: Contentment has a profound relationship with the Waqifin. Teach these children contentment and aversion to avarice right from their childhood. It will not be difficult