This file includes
1 - The child's direct relationship with God Almighty
2 - Teaching ritual worship
3 - Adopting a set of morals of interactive worship
4 - Not adopting the morals of hypocrites
The Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, was keen on guiding children and making them happy in this world and the hereafter, so that they would be a righteous generation that could be relied upon as leaders of the nation. And so it was. He raised a generation of companions who raised generations and generations that led the nation to all good. And among his guidance in this:
First: The direct relationship with God Almighty
His saying - may God bless him and grant him peace - to Abdullah bin Abbas: (O young man, guard God and He will guard you. Guard God and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, ask God, and if you seek help, seek help from God. And know that if the nation were to gather together to benefit you with something, they would not benefit you except with something that God has already written for you even if they gathered together to harm you with anything, they could not harm you except with something God had already decreed against you. The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried. (Ahmad)
The comment
1 - Preserve Allah and He will preserve you: The meaning of this guidance is that Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, is the best of preservers. But how does the child (boy) begin? That is, commit yourself to pleasing Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, by obeying His commands and avoiding His prohibitions, and He will preserve you in your hardship.
2 - Remember God: You will find Him in front of you: In life there are times when you search for God and you may say (Where are you, O God?) So if you remember God in your childhood, then know that you will find Him in front of you.
3- If you ask, ask Allah: Whose words are these? To Ibn Abbas, who was a young boy, that is, less than 12 years old approximately, or perhaps less or more, but he had not reached puberty. The Messenger of Allah taught him that if you ask someone, do not ask your father or mother, but ask Allah directly. This is a way of accustoming the young boy to having a direct relationship with Allah, and not looking right or left.
4 - If you seek help, seek help from God. Is seeking help different from asking? Yes, asking: It is possible that you ask someone and he turns you away disappointed or says bad things to you and you become broken, and he does not own anything. The primary owner is God. As for seeking help: When do you seek help from anyone? When you have a big load and you want someone to carry it with you, the question may be about something small, but the help is for big things, and God knows best
5 - no, no, rather the entire Muhammadan nation, if they gathered to benefit you, then it was written for you from the beginning, and they are playing their roles that they have a role in bringing benefit to you, and the truth is that the scenario was written before that in the Preserved Tablet.
6 - And if they gathered together to harm you with something, they would not harm you except with something that God has already decreed for you: The same thing, their harm is nothing but an injury that God Almighty wanted to reach you in order to treat something that you have. Imam Al-Ghazali says, for example: If there was arrogance in you, how would God treat you, since no one who has an atom of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise: (He breaks you, with a punishment less than you in something, or you ask someone and he prevents you or sends someone to break you in something, and in breaking you comes out the last atom of arrogance in your heart.) Therefore, people are a stick in the hand of God with which He strikes whomever He wills of His servants, in confirmation of the Almighty’s saying (And We will let some of you taste the violence of others).
7 - The pens have dried up and the pages have been lifted: the pens of fate, the matter is over and what was written was written and you are just playing the role in a good way even though it was written thousands of years ago.
And in this there is a calming of the soul from fear of people, for the trial of people is not like the punishment of God at all, but there are wars and armed conflicts in which the hairs of children turn gray, and the pens have dried up and the pages have been lifted, and it has been written for those who witnessed these wars - may God heal everyone - that many will ascend to the rank of martyr, and another sedeq: sincere friend and another do good deeds, and so on, and in the great wars and armed conflicts what the hearts carry of faith and a direct relationship with God Almighty is revealed, we all claim we have faith, and perhaps some of us grew up in a rightous environment, but few of us: who know such meanings if you ask and if you seek help..what came in the noble hadith is impossible to understand unless you fall into a big problem and despair of people that one of them will help you, so your dependence on someone, especially in difficult situations, is a lack of faith. We have the right to ask people for help and there is nothing wrong with that, but it is more complete to start by asking God and seek the reasons after that (asking people) and if the young boy learns this from his early childhood, hardship will come while he is proud of himself, he will not bow down, and perhaps relief will come after that.
As for ritualistic acts of worship, let us know the guidance of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, in ritualistic acts of worship for children (prayer - fasting - Hajj and Umrah - zakat)
The prophet PBUH said
Seven whom Allah will shade with His shade on the Day when there is no shade but His: a just leader, a young man who grew up in the worship of Allah Almighty, a man whose heart is attached to the mosques, two men who loved each other for the sake of God met and parted for that reason. A man was invited by a woman of high status and beauty, but he said, “I fear God.” A man gave charity and concealed it so that his left hand did not know what his right hand was spending. A man remembered God in private, and his eyes overflowed with tears, what precedes the period of youth is the period of childhood?
So, the prophet is consider growing up
in the worship of God and attachment to the mosques, which calls for the shade of the Most Merciful on the Day of Resurrection.
Second: The ritualistic worship
See some of the potential psychological and physical benefits of prayer
The Prayer
The prophet (PBUH) says
Command your children to pray when they are seven years old and beat them for it when they are ten and separate them in their beds. Narrated by Ahmad and Abu Dawood
The comment
Prayer, prayer is nothing but another type of direct relationship with God Almighty, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said (Prayer is a connection between the servant and his Lord) and he was right, it was said if you want to talk to God (pray) and if you want God to talk to you (read or listen to the Qur’an) and you are aware that what is planted in childhood becomes like engraving on stone, that is, it becomes a habit, And the habit after a while turns into an act of worship with the intention and the great life events that you go through, the habit changes and becomes an act of worship instead, one of the righteous says, I suffered the night prayer for twenty years and enjoyed it for twenty others, meaning that he forced himself to pray it until it became a habit and then it turned into an act of worship, so accustoming the child from the age of 7 is a type of linking him to a habit when he began to understand and be aware, so it becomes a habit that reaches him to the age of youth and perhaps after the age of twenty he began to enjoy the true meanings of prayer, and God is Most High and All-Knowing.
Leading the prayer
There is nothing wrong with a boy leading the prayer if he has completed seven years or more and he is good at praying
Because it has been proven from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, what indicates that, but it is better to choose the one who recites the most from the group. If they are equal in recitation, then choose the one who is most knowledgeable about the Sunnah. If they are equal in the Sunnah, then choose the one who emigrated first. If they are equal in emigration, then choose the one who is oldest, as was proven from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
The comment
The boy’s leadership is a type of early leadership and a type of bearing responsibility. You may find a child of 10 years old bearing a responsibility that men of 60 years old cannot bear. This is what life has taught us. Whoever had a difficult beginning had a bright end. The child who bears many hardships, whether work, family problems, or exposure to war, violence, or other things, and finds someone to protect him psychologically (a father or a surrogate mother), the calamities lead him to greatness in adulthood. This is what studies have proven. What I mean is: Prayer is difficult. Leading people with an understanding of God from the words of God is not easy. Imagine a child who recites Surat Al-Hajj, Surat Al-Mu’minun, Surat Hud, or others, of course, and leads people in this. Is this going in vain? Impossible, isn’t it?
2 - The fasting
When does a boy start learning and practicing Islamic fasting in Ramadan?
Some scholars have set it at ten, and some at seven. It was stated in Al-Mughni with Al-Kharqi: If a boy is ten years old and can bear fasting, he should fast, meaning that he is obligated to fast and is ordered to do so and is beaten for not doing so in order to practice it and get used to it, just as he is obligated to pray and is ordered to do it. Among those who said that he is ordered to fast if he can bear it are Ata’, Al-Hasan, Ibn Sirin, Al-Zuhri, Qatadah and Al-Shafi’i.
Al-Nawawi said in Al-Majmu
The author and his companions said: If he is able to fast, the guardian must order him to do so at the age of seven, provided that he is able to distinguish between the ages of seven and ten, and he must beat him for not fasting at the age of ten.
The Comment
But why? The boy is accustomed to fasting from the beginning, even though it is an act of worship for adults?
In principle, fasting is prescribed in all heavenly religions, and there is no religion without fasting, and also some earthly religions because of its benefits. So, perhaps the boy will get used to fasting for the following reasons:
1 - Self-control: Young men grow up according to what their fathers have taught them. Whoever gets used to fasting, it becomes a habit that he can enjoy after years. He becomes a child and then a young man with an opinion and nothing enslaves him.
2 - The child who only cares about the next meal and when it will be, and snacks in between, is not expected to do anything serious in life, if the caller calls for it, whether on the academic, athletic, or even social level, as this child withdraws from societies that do not support this idea, especially among his peers.
3- Avoiding diseases, especially type 2 diabetes, which is based on insulin insensitivity due to eating too many meals in a row.
4- Fasting has the greatest effect on mental health, you will know that in a little while, but now: Does the Lord of the Worlds want Muslim youth to stay away from what intoxicates the mind other than alcohol? Eating a lot has power over the mind, because scientists have discovered that addiction is not only in drugs or alcohol. This is old talk. As for the modern: Addiction is included in almost everything, starting with sleeping pills - chips - sugars of all kinds - carbonated water of all kinds - even sex or masturbation among young people. All of this falls within the circle of addiction, so why is it an addiction? Because anything you love gives the brain a reward in a center in the back of the head, and when this effect (the reward) disappears, withdrawal symptoms begin and the brain begins to insist strongly on this area of the brain to obtain a reward again, which is what fasting reduces, whether you are addicted to sweets or addicted to chips or something else, and God knows best.
5- Childhood habits are easier for adults than the habits they get used to as adults.
No, just look at the scientific refreshes about fasting
Fasting can stimulate autophagy
which in turn can prevent a host of neurodegenerative disorders, in addition to helping us look younger
fasting can help enhance insulin sensitivity
which in turn can help us have healthy blood pressure, cholesterol levels, heart disease, a healthier weight, and a lower risk of diabetes.
The researchers found that
reducing food intake for at least two days a week can improve neural connections in the hippocampus. This part of the brain controls emotions and plays a role in long-term memory, and a calorie-controlled diet protects neurons from the buildup of amyloid plaques.
The research found that it could
Improved self-control, and significantly improved self-control in one area (such as abstaining from food and drink) led to improvements in other areas (such as emotional control, financial habits, or time management).
3- Al Zakat
Zakat is obligatory on every Muslim, even a child who has no father (orphan) who has a guardian. The guardian must pay the zakat amount after a year has passed. What is the evidence for that?
Allah says
خُذْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ صَدَقَةً تُطَهِّرُهُمْ وَتُزَكِّيهِمْ بِهَا وَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ صَلَاتَكَ سَكَنٌ لَهُمْ}
Take from their wealth a charity that purifies them and sanctifies them with it, and pray for them, for your prayers are a reassure to them.}
"So tell them that Allah has imposed upon them a charity that is taken from their rich and returned to their poor." Narrated by Abu Dawud.
And his saying - may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him -
"Trade with the wealth of orphans, so that zakat does not consume it." Narrated by Al-Tabarani in Al-Awsat.
His saying - may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him - {Zakat does not consume it} is evidence of the obligation of Zakat on the wealth of the minor; because if it was not obligatory on his wealth, Zakat would not consume it, and because Zakat, in the opinion of the majority, is a provision for the poor and others who are recipients of Zakat, so it is not a condition of obligation.
As for the opinion of Ibn Abbas - may Allah be pleased with them - he said
"Zakat is not obligatory on the wealth of a minor until prayer becomes obligatory on him" Sunan Al-Daraqutni.
The Conclusion
Zakat is not obligatory on his money until he reaches puberty. When he reaches puberty, zakat is obligatory by consensus. The guardian must then pay zakat from the boy’s money. As long as the money is under the guardianship of the guardianship council, and it is responsible for disposing of this money, and he has appointed a guardian over the boy’s money. The guardian must submit a request to the Hisbi Council to approve the payment of zakat on the boy’s money, and he must follow the legal procedures that the council is bound by. If it approves the payment of zakat, then that is fine and well done. Otherwise, after the boy reaches the legal age of majority and receives his money, he must then pay zakat for the years that have passed from the time he reaches adulthood until the time he receives his money.
4 - Al - Hajj
It was reported in Sahih Muslim on the authority of Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a woman brought a boy to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said: “Is this a Hajj for him?” He said: “Yes, and you will have a reward.” However, that does not suffice for the Hajj of Islam, so he must perform another Hajj after reaching puberty, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Any boy who performs Hajj and then reaches puberty must perform another Hajj…” Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi and authenticated by Al-Albani.
The comment
Allah the Almighty did not impose Hajj on boys who have not reached puberty or girls who have not had their period, and yet there is a reward, so why? Why does Allah the Almighty make parents love the reward of a boy who will not understand or comprehend what is going on around him in most cases, and if he is distinctive, he will understand and comprehend in his subconscious the rituals that are happening around him, perhaps for several reasons:
1 - Earthly religions teach their children rituals, no matter how difficult, to remain in their imagination. Rather, one of the religions forces their children to do very difficult sports, which are religious rituals.
2- This child is humble by nature, and usually only adults who have earned money and other life achievements that make him arrogant and know arrogance. Life is fast and this boy grows quickly to become the man of tomorrow, and perhaps he is one of the successful people in life, so he does not act arrogantly towards religion or reject it, but it is in his subconscious.
3- You are an expert that the numbers of people in Hajj or Umrah have much greater positives than negatives, and among its positives is the psychological well-being of all who attended this ritual, and children have a share in this, and this explains that whoever goes to the Sacred House loves to return to it again and again, and the child also has a share in this. Of course, God is higher and more knowledgeable
Except that God Almighty gives us reward for things we cannot imagine to make us love the reward and to keep away from us the outlets of evil, with the many rewards in the Qur’an, in confirmation of the saying of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace: “Follow up a bad deed with a good one, and it will erase it”
This concludes
the ritualistic acts of worship, and if you notice they are small, they take up the boy’s journey of faith with God Almighty throughout his life. What takes up the remaining part are the transactional acts of worship, which are greater and more comprehensive than the transactional acts of worship
Third: The transactional acts of worship
The story of a Chinese infidel who dealt with Muslim merchants
They asked him to write on their goods that they were imported from a foreign country by fraud, and at the same time they refused to eat pork, with utmost denunciation and astonishment, or with utmost mockery and derision, or both, this is what this Chinese merchant says about Muslim merchants; because he found a blatant contradiction in the behavior of those merchants who claim to be Muslims.. At the time when they live in all haram and eat ill-gotten gains by fraud and deceiving their nation, homeland, citizens and those who deal with them. At the same time, they are devout - falsely - and abstain from eating a meal on the pretext that it is haram!! A blatant contradiction and a shameful schizophrenia.
Let's begin,
Just as the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was concerned with ritualistic worship for children, he was concerned with transactional worship, the basis of which is the reform of hearts, but why are transactional worship greater and more important than ritual worship? Religion is essentially and fundamentally based on transactional worship. If it is sound, true, and upright, then ritual worship is valid...and what is the evidence for that?
This is a collection of sayings of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about improving the morals of children and adults alike, whether by adorning them with good morals or ridding them of bad morals. Did all of these hadiths come out of nowhere, or did they come to be implemented in this world and not in the hereafter? The problem of Muslims is the calamities that have befallen them in the East and the West, whether from lack of prayer or fasting, or from injustice between them. We cut off each other’s heads, I do not say Sunnis and Shiites, no, no, but from the same path. Allah will never be pleased with that, and we will not take a step forward while we eat each other’s reptuation and harm each other to the point of death. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said
(On the authority of Jabir, may Allah be pleased with him, who said
The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: ((Most of those who die from my nation after Allah’s decree and destiny are by the evil eye)) (Beware of envy, for envy consumes good deeds as fire consumes wood)
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
(I was only sent to perfect good morals)
The comment
1 - It is only a tool of limitation and restriction to what will come after it, and the meaning is: What will come after it is nothing but what the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, specifically wanted and nothing after it.
2 - I was sent to perfect good morals. So there were good morals among the Arabs and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came to perfect them.
3- Among the noble morals that the infidels enjoyed were (the integrity of the word and the honor of a man’s word) even though they were infidels. The evidence is that they could not utter with their tongues a sentence of only 4 words (There is no god but Allah). Why? Because they understood that it had requirements and that they would not be able to say it without concessions, and whoever said it without believing in it was one of the half-men (hypocrites).
It was among the characteristics of the Arabs: generosity, assistance, supporting the weak and oppressed, and other praiseworthy qualities. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not come except to complete these noble qualities and not to have any blemish, deception, fraud, or lack thereof.
And his saying - may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him -:
(Nothing is placed on the scale heavier than good manner, and the one who has good manner will attain the status of the one who fasts and prays)
The comment
1- Worldly deeds do not go in vain, we are Muslims and are responsible before Allah the Almighty for our deeds, some of which we pay the price for here in this world and some of which are delayed on the Day of Judgment to be a difficult reckoning, and for whom Allah has mercy, He hastens the worldly punishment for him and for whom He intends evil, He leaves it for him on the day he dies (Whoever dies, his resurrection will be established for him)
2- The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, confirms to us that the scale (the scale of deeds) is the heaviest thing to be placed in it, not the long veil that reaches the middle of the body, nor the frequent prayers, nor the night prayers, nor, nor, nor, but it has to do with good manner, and what is the standard of good manner, then? The behave to people is a matter of good character, taken from the creation with the creation; that is: Mix with them and treat them with good manner, that is: take care to deal with them with courtesy in dealing and other things, such as a cheerful face, lowering one’s side, gentleness, comfort, generosity, tolerance of harm, compassion, lowering one’s side, not thinking ill of them, being kind to everyone, young and old, and being gentle in dealing with them despite their different natures. For the one who does that, it is hoped that he will succeed in this world, and in the hereafter, he will win salvation and success.
3 - To attain the degree of the one who fasts and prays: Good character and dealing with people in a good manner (a comparative verb from “good”) is better in the sight of God than your frequent prayers and fasting. Will God accept your fasting on Mondays and Thursdays throughout the year while you are clearly unjust to someone?
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
“Shall I not tell you of the most beloved of you to me and the one who will be closest to me in assembly on the Day of Resurrection?” He repeated it three or two times. They said: Yes, O Messenger of God. He said: “The best of you in his manner.”
On the authority of Anas bin Malik, may God be pleased with him, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to me:
(O my son, if you are able to wake up and go to bed without deceit in your heart toward anyone, then do so. Then he said to me: O my son, this is part of my Sunnah, and whoever revives my Sunnah has loved me, and whoever loves me will be with me in Paradise.
The comment
Can you imagine, dear educator: just planting in your son’s heart that he should not wake up from sleep until he sleeps without deceit in his heart toward anyone, like the reward of one who revives a Sunnah? What is this religion, and how far are Muslims from that
And because of his saying, may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him:
Do you know who is bankrupt? They said: The bankrupt among us is the one who has neither money nor possessions. He said: The bankrupt is the one who comes on the Day of Resurrection with prayer, fasting, and zakat, but he comes having insulted this one and slandered that one and he ate the wealth of this one, and shed the blood of this one, and struck this one, so this one will be given from his good deeds, and this one from his good deeds. If his good deeds run out before what he owes is settled, then some of their sins will be taken and placed upon him, then he will be thrown into the Fire.
The comment
no comment
Not to have the morals of hypocrites. Every trait of hypocrites has a corresponding trait of believers. If one abandons lying, then the believer is trustworthy. And so on...let us begin.
Fourth: Not adopting the morals of the hypocrites
Without going into the legal details, the pictures speak for themselves
final word,
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