Once the fingers and toes have been counted, the initial medical evaluation completed, and the call to prayer recited in the newborn’s ear, every Muslim parent asks the question, “How do I teach this child all he needs to know? Muslim mothers and fathers across this planet have grappled with the question of how to educate their child in the matter of all things religious: How to teach them Arabic, how to teach them the proper way to perform the five daily prayers, and how to teach them the myriad of lessons and observances integral to the practice of Islam.
