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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The duty of parents when their children abandon prayer

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Question:
This is a woman asking me: Her children used to maintain the prayers since they were young, but when I separated from their father, and when these young men grew up, they abandoned the prayer.

Answer:
Neither admonition nor reminding them has been of any benefit to them. Their father says, "The world will teach them good; leave them alone." What should I do with them? Do not leave them, they are your children. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Command your children to pray at seven, and strike them for it at ten.مروا أولادكم بالصلاة لسبع واضربوهم عليها لعشر
Sunan ad-Daraqutni 3:5
They are in your trust, and your responsibility for them remains. You must make them pray, enjoining them to do so as long as they are with you and in your homes. You are to make them pray and discipline them for abandoning it? Yes.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/130 — archive.org (3:20)

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