Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī ad-Dīn al-Hilālī ؒ (d. 1407 AH/1987 CE) stated:
I wish to draw the attention of my dear readers to an important matter. Every Jewish boy and girl in the United States is required to attend two schools.
- The first is Hebrew school, where they attend regularly in order to study the Hebrew language, the Torah, Jewish history, doctrinal texts, and religious worship.
- The second is public school, which every citizen of the United States must attend in order to obtain full civil rights.
These students excel in both institutions.
As for Arab and Muslim children, their situation is well known. Their fathers are concerned solely with obtaining certificates that will secure worldly success for their children. Many of them, particularly the wealthy, enrol their children in Christian missionary schools and pay substantial tuition fees, thereby depriving them of a righteous upbringing that would enable them to become upright members of their community, preserving their religion and their dignity.
May Allah guide the Muslims and assist them in returning to their true religion, both in teaching and in learning. Āmīn.
References
Al-Hilālī, Muḥammad Taqī ad-Dīn (1893–1987 CE), Kayfa Rabbā Yahūd al-Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah Awlādahum, Dār al-Iʿtiṣām, Cairo, n.d., p. 32.
