The Last of the Mohicans

Me wrote this entry while waiting for me Hakim to complete his registration at a local University in Bangi yesterday. At last me Hakim got his place to further his study after waiting for a couple of months.

This basically "complete" me responsibility to provide a decent education to me children - to the best of me ability and conforming to their respective interests, for the good of their future.

Hakim was the last of the "Mohicans", so to speak, since his younger sister "me Adek" went away to further her study a few months ago.

It was not an easy task to making sure our children get their proper education. As parents, we should not force them to do things against their will in matters involving education, if we are to harness excellence from them. Me for one, always belief that the children's interests should play a pivotal role in determining the field of knowledge they would want to pursue. We as parents should only "facilitate" and "steer" them towards pursuing their respective interests.

Leaving it at that, out of me six children, three of them (the two Muhammads and Hakim) have chosen engineering as their career path (coincidentally all three are majoring in "mechanical" just like meself! - maybe we all have that "mechanical" genes!). The others,the 2 Ahmads have chosen to do medicine while the youngest chose pharmacy as her career of choice. InsyaAllah, me pray for all of them to be successful in their chosen vocations.

Again, as parents the world over would agree, we should be thankful to Allah for the "Amanah" entrusted upon us to manage our wonderful children. Really, not much we as parents could do except to pray and pray that our children would grow up and be blessed with the success in this world and the hereafter...and that they would become our legacy and "assets" in this world, who would pray and pray continuously for our sustenance when we are no longer on this earth...

O Allah! make our children and our descendants to come, the source of your blessings and the source of our happiness in this world and the hereafter...Ameen.