Is it permissible to delay the young ones from the first row if they arrive there first?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, in schools the midday prayer is performed, and the students vary in their understanding of the importance of the prayer and performing it in the required manner. They compete for the first row. Is it possible to reserve the first row for the oldest, and the subsequent rows for those next in age, so that they can be trained in the recommended practice before the midday prayer and the recommended practice after the midday prayer, given their understanding of this?
The Shaykh : This requires us to say: bring the birth certificates. Since we are prioritizing the older ones, the older ones must present birth certificates, because some people do not know; you might see someone say, "This one is, for example, twenty years old," when he is actually forty years old.
The questioner : The elementary school stage, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : In the elementary school stage, if it were said that you prioritize the young ones, that would not be far-fetched, because it is more memorizing for them. If the young ones are delayed, they play. But we say: we encourage everyone. We say: the one who arrives first has the right. The one who arrives at something before anyone else has the right to it. Yes.
The Shaykh : This requires us to say: bring the birth certificates. Since we are prioritizing the older ones, the older ones must present birth certificates, because some people do not know; you might see someone say, "This one is, for example, twenty years old," when he is actually forty years old.
The questioner : The elementary school stage, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : In the elementary school stage, if it were said that you prioritize the young ones, that would not be far-fetched, because it is more memorizing for them. If the young ones are delayed, they play. But we say: we encourage everyone. We say: the one who arrives first has the right. The one who arrives at something before anyone else has the right to it. Yes.