Bringing in what is wrong into the home and forbidding it to the children
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Someone says: Do not prevent forbidden things from entering your home, but if you see your son or daughter doing something wrong in the house or watching something wrong, forbid it to them and do not remove it from them. He asks: Is there any guidance in a case like this?
Answer:
This is a contradiction. You do not prevent wrong things from entering your home, and if you see your child doing them, you forbid him from doing them? How can you enable him to do them? You bring them into your home, which is like throwing him into the sea with his hands tied and telling him: Beware, beware of getting wet by the water. What is this talk? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Someone says: Do not prevent forbidden things from entering your home, but if you see your son or daughter doing something wrong in the house or watching something wrong, forbid it to them and do not remove it from them. He asks: Is there any guidance in a case like this?
Answer:
This is a contradiction. You do not prevent wrong things from entering your home, and if you see your child doing them, you forbid him from doing them? How can you enable him to do them? You bring them into your home, which is like throwing him into the sea with his hands tied and telling him: Beware, beware of getting wet by the water. What is this talk? Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء فيمن يلازم بقعة بعينها من المسجد — islamhouse.com (1:05:36)
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