The Shari'ah-prescribed manner of striking a child for prayer
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)Sunan Abi Dawud 495Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani) for ten years old, he asks: What is the Shari'ah-prescribed manner of striking in this case?
The Shaykh:
The striking that causes pain to the young person but does not wound him and does not break a bone, not severe, a non-severe strike that achieves discipline without causing harm.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
But now they say modern education forbids striking, do not strike, do not urinate, education of whom? Education of the West. But the education of Islam does not command striking within the limits of benefit. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible for me to pay the person responsible for me at work?
The Shaykh:
They forbid striking when they are demolishing houses upon families and killing the innocent and displacing them, and they say do not strike children and do not strike. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer)
مروا أولادكم بالصلاة وهم أبناء سبع واضربوا هم عليهاThe Shaykh:
The striking that causes pain to the young person but does not wound him and does not break a bone, not severe, a non-severe strike that achieves discipline without causing harm.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
But now they say modern education forbids striking, do not strike, do not urinate, education of whom? Education of the West. But the education of Islam does not command striking within the limits of benefit. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible for me to pay the person responsible for me at work?
The Shaykh:
They forbid striking when they are demolishing houses upon families and killing the innocent and displacing them, and they say do not strike children and do not strike. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 28-12-1434هـ — af.org.sa (1:07:41)
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