Fundación Mezquita de Sevilla Fundación Mezquita de Sevilla y Centro Cultural Islámico de Sevilla®
From the Fundación Mezquita de Sevilla, we are pleased to share the reflections of our vice-president, Jalid Nieto, offered on March 25 in a new installment of the Nasihah series. In this speech, the author of “Decisive Education” delved into the need to rescue the essence of childhood and the purity of the soul in a world increasingly dominated by technology and consumption. For the Foundation, these teachings do not represent mere rules, but a cultivation of the spirit that begins with the consistency of the parents and a genuine connection with the reality created by Allah.
One of the pillars of his speech was the recovery of contact with nature as an antidote to the “robotic murder” of children’s creativity. Nieto warned that the excessive consumption of screens and prefabricated content fixes the child’s vision in other people’s images, preventing him from developing his own interiority. Instead, he proposed the observation of creation and work in the garden as the best teachers, as they teach the child the cycles of life, patience, and existential connection with the Creator.
He also stressed the value of the “extended family” in the face of the isolation of the modern nuclear family. From our institution, we promote an open community that protects children from emotional dryness. In this environment, traditional gestures such as kissing the parents’ hands are not acts of submission, but rather tools of Adab (spiritual courtesy) that establish an authority based on kindness and mutual respect, fundamental to future leadership.
Finally, he stressed that spirituality is built from everyday life: personal hygiene, order at the table and the living example of prayer in the home. For the Seville Mosque Foundation, the success of education is manifested when the new generations incorporate the Deen with joy, making the mosque their home and life an act of service and gratitude.
