Another critical point here is that Allah protects the children of His righteous servants, as we repeatedly learned in Surah Kahf. Therefore, one of the best ways to guarantee that Allah protects our children and that they are righteous is for us to be pious ourselves. In Surah al-Kahf, when Khidr and Musa passed by the broken wall and Khidr stopped to rebuild it, Musa asked, ‘What was the purpose of this?’ At the end of the story, Khidr revealed, ‘And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and under the wall was a treasure that belonged to them, and their father was a
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