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At what age should I encourage my child to start praying and more importantly, to keep them
regularly upon it?
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Now Subhan Allah, the prophet SAW you seldom, he was one of those people was very pragmatic. And he
would say to us, you know, when we're raising our children in the first seven years, we should enjoy
them, love them, and care for them, play with them that I bought a home in December. And in the
second, seven years, you know, from the eight seven till about 14, he says, I'll remove him, teach
them and then he says in the next seven years from about 1314 years old until into their 20s, he
says, so I sell them saw a boom accompany them be their friends in life, and that's really the same
strategy you want to take with your soul that so for the first seven years prayer for them should be
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an enjoyment it should be you know, your child does somersaults over you as your into Judo ruku they
would ride you like you're a camel or horse as the children would do to the prophets. I sell them in
Medina. But once they get to that age of seven, you now you want to begin to lay down the
foundations, you teach them how to make a goodwill, it begins with Waldo, and you begin to talk to
them about what they're doing in the salon. What is it that you're saying, you know, when you stand
up and you say Allahu Akbar, it means nothing is greater at that moment than Allah for the rest of
my life. Then Allah subhanaw taala no problem do I have except Allah can solve it because Allahu
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Akbar, and no success that I have, except that Allah is the one who provided it at hamdulillah
Allahu Akbar. Right. So you teach them about the meaning the inner meanings of Salah, and that their
accountability is to Allah. Never, ever, ever be the one who comes home and says, Did you pray us?
And they say no. And then you get angry and furious. And yeah, leave your food, leave this, turn off
the TV, go do your prayer. That's not the habit of the prophets. I said to them, rather the question
you have, because that will teach them hypocrisy. it'll teach them to lie to you. Because you've
made yourself in the place that only Allah is you're not the Punisher for that. So be then a person
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who says, hey, it's time for us. I haven't prayed to come pray with me if you haven't prayed, it's a
totally different way of saying, Why haven't you done your offer? Or did you pray officer yet you
come home, you say even if you prayed, hey, I haven't prayed also do you need to pray with me or
should I pray on my own, it's a different mode of attention. Second, big you know, begin to take
them to the masjid regularly. It could be every week, it could be every night, as as they grow
older. But by about 10 years old, you want them for those three years 789 that by the 10th year they
become to develop their soul that and you've begun to wake them up professional, especially in the
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winter months when Vegeta is a little bit later in the day. And then they become climatized to the
prayer. It's not out of demand, but it's out of habit. Finally, I asked you about Allah Subhana
Allah, to love them, and to encourage them through love and the more you love your child, and the
more they see that the Salah brings love to them, the more they will be encouraged to do it so that
when you're not there, they will do it just as well as when you're with them. May Allah bless us
with children who are on the journey more clean Masada, women the reality our Lord make me a
practitioner of prayer and my children. This was the day of the prophets of Allah Ibrahim alayhis
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salam, let it be as a constitution in your life.
