*Children's Education*
When mothers want to teach their children how to pray, they face many difficulties.
Today we learn how to handle them?
Teach children the etiquette of prayer, including proper attire.
Tell children to pray in clothes that cover the whole body, and if the clothes are tight, take a large sheet over them that covers the tight parts...
Boys' shirts should not be too short that the waist is visible.
Girls' hair should not be visible.
Now the problem is that mothers themselves wear abayas, then the children's clothes will be worth seeing, and mothers proudly say that this is the age of their desires, why are you unnecessarily ruining their lives, have mercy on these children.
*Children are completely under the control of their mothers until the age of eight, they wear what they are made to wear. When we ourselves give them double standards that son, wear this dress in class, and wear this to the wedding, then the mistake is ours.*
Dress the children well, but also nurture modesty in them from childhood.
Teach children the etiquette of the Adhan, and be a role model yourself.
*Instead of lecturing the child to be quiet when the Adhan is being recited, be quiet yourself. Even if the child wants to talk, don't speak so that he knows that the mother is silent for the Adhan, or explain later, son, we don't talk during the Adhan.*
Teach the boys the Adhan and encourage them by telling them its reward. Tell them, son, the reward of the Adhan is so great that if people knew its reward, there would be a crowd..
Teach children to pray on time.
*Encourage children through Hadith that hypocrites pray lazily, this develops a strong will in children, they will get into the habit of doing everything on time*
Mothers should also develop a strong will within themselves that they should act immediately on whatever they think, working carelessly becomes a role model for children, when you are careless, the children will also become careless, pay special attention to this, even during menstruation, avoid leaving the prayer mat so that there is no way in front of the child that prevents him from praying, you just do Wudu, spread the prayer mat, pray...
Prepare the children for prayer before the Adhan that son, there are so many minutes left in the Adhan, come quickly and do Wudu, today we will all pray to Allah first...
The mother should offer a peaceful prayer, whatever it may be, this habit will be transferred to the children and when the children are young, sit them next to you when you are free and raise your hands for prayer, ask the child to raise his hands too...
Encourage children through verses and Hadith,
Give children prayers. Son, just as you are ahead in school, become the best prayer reader too...
Tell children the virtues and etiquette of the mosque and general conversation while staying within the Islamic circle...
Send them to the mosque before the age of seven,
Teach etiquette:
First put the right foot in the mosque,
Recite the prayer,
Take off your shoes on the side,
Do not make noise, because it is Allah's honorable house which is for worship.
Teach children the etiquette of Friday.
Taking a bath,
Using Miswak,
Applying perfume,
Make him memorize any Surah and ask him to recite it, there are some specific Surahs that are special for Friday, for example, reciting Surah Al-Kahf, etc...
*My point of view*
Generally, a three-year-old child learns to speak well. If mothers raise children properly from three to seven years, then, by the grace of Allah, those children can understand many necessities of religion even before going to Madrasa,
First, make him memorize the Kalima and tell him about God, the One without partner,
The style should be: whatever the child likes, tell him, son, Allah has made it, sometimes tell the sky, son, look how big the sky is, Allah has made it, sometimes show the earth and say that Allah has made it, in the same way, instill the concept of God in his veins, Insha'Allah Al-Aziz, you will fulfill the right of being a mother...
You have to remind him, recognition of God, faith in the Prophets, peace be upon them, faith in the angels, faith in the heavenly books, the method of fasting, prayer, Hajj, Zakat, the method of ablution, the method of bathing, there are three hundred and sixty-five or sixty-six days in a year, you have only explained to the child for two hundred days, then all this will be completed in one year because children's minds are very sharp compared to adults because they are like blank paper, so surely those children will become great children, then the day is not far when our great nation will be seen rising again,
An incident,
When Napoleon came and failed many times, he said to his ministers, what is it that they have that when they come into the field, they do not retreat? What is it that makes these people so strong, what is the courage that does not let them weaken?
So his ministers were also very intelligent and clever, they replied that the reason why these Muslims are so strong is that their mothers make them strong. Napoleon was surprised and forced to think that if the mothers are in this state, then we do not have the power to stand in front of those trained by them, then what will be the state of their fathers (parents)......
A poet had said very well:
Woman is sometimes Hawa, sometimes Maryam, sometimes Zahra
Women have adorned nations in every era.
Recite more Kalima and Durood Pak in front of children
May Allah grant us the ability to fulfill our duties well, Ameen.
A noteworthy point for mothers:
There was no special school for children's education in Madinah, and the situation was that even the fathers of that time were out of the house, at that time the only mother was educating the children, and then the world saw their children too, and mothers are still there and the world is also seeing the children, no one needs an introduction...
Just think about where we are making a mistake.
✍️Mutalim Al-Jamiatul Ashrafia✍️