Paradise Under Your Feet — Page 2
2 paradise but they also have to show them the way by their own actions. So, the answer to the question of how to raise righteous children is that first a mother must have love for Allah Almighty herself, and then pass it on to her children through her own good example, backed with fervent and ceaseless prayers for her children. Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih IV (rh) has advised: “ I would advise you to take care of yourselves so that you are not swept away by the Western or other cultures. Do this or do that or take such and such precautions, all these are admonitions. Sometimes they are effective and sometimes people get even more repelled by them and retreat. But there is one advice offered by the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, in this poem, and in actuality, it has been emphasized over and over in different ways. And that is, if you became engrossed in the love of God, all issues will get resolved. After this, there is no need for offering any other advice. Then God Himself will take care of you and He Himself will make you successful by showing you which way goes in the right direction and which way goes against it. How is it possible then that a man would leave the way of his beloved and tread the path that goes against His? Then the issues of sacrifice, of leading a pure life, and of cultural contradictions are resolved. Becoming occupied in the love of God is the single solution to all problems. Generations born as a result of this love will indeed develop into generations belonging to God. So when it is said that heaven is under the feet of mothers, it does not mean, it is under every mother ’ s feet. It means that if heaven can be attained by subsequent generations it can only be attained through mothers who themselves have