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Due to the conditions of the time and by their fitrah, the first students of the Risale-i Nur foremost are the innocent children because if a child is unable to receive a powerful lesson of îmân in his childhood, it will be very strenuous and challenging for him to embrace the pillars of Islam and îmân in their rûh in later years. It becomes as difficult as a non-Muslim accepting Islam; he will be alienated from Islam. Especially if he does not see his father and mother as religious and his mind is provided only with the tarbiyyah of worldly sciences, he will be more alienated from Islam. Therefore, that child, instead of showing respect to his father and mother in the world, despises them, wishes for their early death and becomes a kind of trouble for them. And in the âkhirah, he will not be shafî’ but a complaint against them, saying, “Why did you not save my îmân with Islamic tarbiyyah?”