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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Advice on correcting children in prayer and striking them

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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, my children exhaust and weary me when I try to correct them in prayer. What is your advice to me?

The Shaykh:
Our advice is that you be patient and persist. Command them to pray, and you must be patient in persisting and being patient until they grow up, if Allah wills, and are raised in the habit of prayer. Then it will become easy for them to perform it. So patience and continuing to wake them are necessary. Yes. Yes.

The questioner:
And he asks: May I use the method of striking them?

The Shaykh:
This is in the hadith: strike them for it at the age of ten. If they have reached ten, strike them as in the hadith. But if they are under ten, commanding them and pressing them is sufficient. Yes.

The questioner:
She says:

The Shaykh:
That the young child who has not reached ten is sufficient with being commanded and pressed. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 119 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الشهادات / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (43:43)

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