Story 111: Treating one's children fairly and justly
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In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful
This is a story shared with me by a brother I know:
His wife’s father was a wealthy man who lived in a luxurious neighborhood in Damascus and owned a resort in the countryside.
On the morning of Eid, his daughter—my friend’s wife—went to visit him. She has stepsisters from another woman he married after her mother passed away.
When she arrived, her father and his new family were enjoying a lavish Eid banquet. Instead of welcoming her in, he handed her a small amount of money and asked her to leave—seemingly to appease his new wife.
My friend told me how deeply this incident wounded his wife. She carried the pain of her father’s rejection for years, often weeping over the injustice she felt.
As a father, if you allow personal preferences or emotions to lead you to favor one child over another—perhaps the youngest, the most beautiful, or the most intelligent—while treating the others with neglect or harshness, know that you are making a grave mistake. Such behavior can leave lasting emotional scars and damage your children’s sense of worth and belonging.
True fatherhood lies in treating all your children with fairness, compassion, and justice.
