What advice do you have for the women who bring their children to the mosque, causing disturbance and mischief in the mosque, stepping over people’s shoulders, and other such things?

Question:
She says: What advice do you have for the women who go to the mosque to pray or to listen to a lecture with their children? The men and women praying may find the children’s disturbance, their mischief in the mosque, and their stepping over shoulders to be a distraction from their prayer? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This is a prohibited matter in the mosque if the children are ill-mannered with respect to the mosque or with respect to the people praying, and if they cause harm, then their mothers should not take them to the mosque; rather, they should stay with them at home and pray at home. As for listening to the lecture, today, praise be to Allah, it is possible to listen to it either through the loudspeaker or through the tapes on which these beneficial lectures are recorded; they are available and freely distributed, praise be to Allah. Yes.