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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Limiting Domestic Violence and Raising Children

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Question:
Abu Sa'id from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah says: How do we limit the domestic violence that is widespread in some families in our present time?

Answer:
If by domestic violence one means harming the family and causing them hardship, this is not permissible. But nowadays, people interpret domestic violence in a way where some of them say it means not raising them, not commanding them, and not forbidding them, and leaving them to do as they please. And if he wants to raise them with good upbringing, command them to obey Allah, and make them perform the prayer, they say this is domestic violence. This is a lie and a slander. This is reform and good, praiseworthy upbringing, and it is commanded.
And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein.وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاصْطَبِرْ عَلَيْهَا
[Taha 20:132]
. Command your children to pray when they are
when they become seven years old, and beat them for itسبع سنين واضربوهم عليها
Sunan Abi Dawud 495Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani)
ten years old, and separate them in their beds.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (165) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1439-07-18] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (22:03)

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