Ayman Ismail

It's not Sunday school?

Okay.

So this is like a K through 12 school.

So it's all the way up to the end of high school to college.

Academically, it's pretty good.

But at the same time, we really got to learn Arabic.

And we also really got to understand not really the spiritual side of the religion, but the mechanics.

And at the time, I was like, this is so dumb.

Why are we learning to put one hand over the other?

Does God really care if you put your left hand over the right hand?

We were learning that side of it.

Right.

But as I got older, I think, I finally am at a point now where I've found the meaning in all of those years of being in Islamic school.

All of that money, all of that pain and arguing.

And now, you know, because now I have kids.

I have two kids, alhamdulillah.

And...

I'm starting to feel really insecure in my ability as a parent to transfer that knowledge by myself.

I don't think I can teach them to really understand the mechanisms of being a Muslim because it is like a physical practice, just as much as it is a spiritual one.

I'm not totally confident in my ability to teach them that.