The Ruling on Women Attending the Mosques with Their Children

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: We are a group of women who attend these lessons, and we bring our children with us. However, one of the older women in the mosque ordered us to sit in our homes and not attend the mosque. She said that your reward would be greater if you sat in your homes. Is this correct, given that we benefit from these lessons, praise be to Allah, and we fear that if we were to receive them in our homes, this time would be wasted without us benefiting from it? We also know that our husbands encourage us to attend these lessons, and we do not neglect our children, praise be to Allah, nor do we neglect the affairs of our homes. So what is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh?

Answer:
If there is someone to look after the children at home, you leave the children with them. If there is no one to leave the children with, then if you bring them with you and keep them in check, and they do not cause any harm to the mosque or to those present, there is no harm in that. If you keep them in check as you mentioned in the question, and they do not behave in a way that is disrespectful to those present or to the mosque, there is no harm in attending. Attending is a means to benefit. Yes.