Ruling on moving children from the front rows if they arrive there first
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Question:
Some children arrive early on Friday, and older people come and move them, sitting in their place, citing his sayingMishkat al-Masabih 1088 Is this permissible?
Answer:
Some scholars say this, and they consider it better for them to line up behind the men, but there is a point to consider here. It is better that if they move forward, they not be moved if they have reached the first row or the second row first. Those who come after them should not move them, because they have reached their right first. So they should not be moved either. Moving them discourages them from prayer and from racing to the front; that is not appropriate.
However, if the people gather, coming together on a journey or for any reason, and they gather with the men in the first row, then the boys in the second, then the women after them, if that happens and they are gathered together, that is one thing. But as for taking them out of the rows, removing them, and having the older men line up in their place; that should not be done. Because it contradicts the known Islamic principles, that whoever reaches a permissible thing first has the stronger right to it. And because this discourages them from racing to the front.
Some children arrive early on Friday, and older people come and move them, sitting in their place, citing his saying
Let those of you who are sedate and prudent be near me
ليلني منكم أولوا الأحلام، والنهىAnswer:
Some scholars say this, and they consider it better for them to line up behind the men, but there is a point to consider here. It is better that if they move forward, they not be moved if they have reached the first row or the second row first. Those who come after them should not move them, because they have reached their right first. So they should not be moved either. Moving them discourages them from prayer and from racing to the front; that is not appropriate.
However, if the people gather, coming together on a journey or for any reason, and they gather with the men in the first row, then the boys in the second, then the women after them, if that happens and they are gathered together, that is one thing. But as for taking them out of the rows, removing them, and having the older men line up in their place; that should not be done. Because it contradicts the known Islamic principles, that whoever reaches a permissible thing first has the stronger right to it. And because this discourages them from racing to the front.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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