Zakir Naik – Encourage Children To Fast At An Early Age

			What's your thoughts on children fasting the month of Ramadan before they get to the age of puberty,
as I mentioned earlier, it is not compulsory for a child who has not reached the age of puberty to
fascism complicity, they exempted as a beloved prophet masala from * is added in tirmidhi. Number
1423, a beloved Prophet said that the pen has been lifted up from three categories of people, a
child until he reaches puberty, a sleeping person until he wakes up, and a person who's insane until
it becomes of sound mind. So these three categories of people, the beloved Prophet said that the
pain has been lifted, that means it's not obligated on them to fast. Same as prayer also, they
		

			aren't obliged. But it's good to encourage our children to fast as early as possible. Do it's not
complicity. And there's a Hadith, which is mentioned in say Buhari on number three, in the book of
fasting Hadith number 1960. Where the Beloved Prophet masala he does the people of unser, he sends
the messenger and doesn't inform that those who are fasting they should continue fasting. Those who
are not fasting should fast till the end of the day. And after that, the people the Sahaba, they
said, He fasted. And we even asked our children to fast and return them to the masjid. And if they
cried, we gave them toys often. So that to keep themselves busy, till the realm of response. That
		

			means this is how the sahabas they encourage the children to fast at an early age, it was not
compulsory. And this is a good habit. But many a time that we see nowadays, that many of the
parents, they discourage the children from fasting, even if the child is enthusiastic and filled out
too fast. Many parents say at this young age, it's not required don't fast, they fail to realize
that fasting at a young age will not cause them any harm. In fact, it will give them a training too
fast when they reach puberty.
		

			And Allah says in the Quran, in Surah, chapter number 66, Muslim six, yeah, a unison among all you
believe, save yourself and your families from the torment of Hellfire, who still is men and stones.
Allah is reminding the people that don't only save yourself, even your children from the Hellfire
was fuel is meant instance. So it is good to encourage our children to fast at an early age. And
that's what we do in the school that we are running Islamic national school, we encourage them to
fast that earlier even when they are in junior kg, or in senior kg at the age of 456 encourage them.
And at this age, the age of 456. We say that the person who fasts the maximum in the class will get
		

			a gift, we get a reward, and that encourages them. And when they reach 10, at first, that is
approximately of six hamdulillah most of the children filed the full month. And by the time they
reach standard. Third, that's about seven, eight years. Almost all of the past couple months from
now, there are some complicity hamdulillah. And when they see other children fasting, imagine most
of the parents that tell them that we're not required, but the children the force, that we want to
fast because of competition because of seeing their friends or their family. So if they don't fall,
they feel ashamed.
		

			But that monster you create, if you don't tell them it is part of us. But that must be of
competition. That was fear of loving each other and loving the religion. loving our land is our
school. So just we are hungry Allah, like it said in the most awesome said mission in tirmidhi that
when a child reaches the age of seven, we should teach him to offer salah and at the age of 10 you
can even use force. So that means gonna say we can do the same thing even for fasting. But we start
at a much earlier age, but it is not for that few of us love affection, and gifts and rewards and
alhumdulillah it has a tremendous effect on the children