QUESTION: I have a 6 mnths old baby ., and my in laws says that we should not take the baby outside at night as there are jins at night and it will affect the baby. Is this true?? Can we take the babies outside at night?

Pedagogy education and upbringing | 0 Comments
18 Oct

ANSWER: No problem as long as you or any adult is accompanying him.

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QUESTION: Is it allowed for new born babies to play with trumpet like toys, toys that makes jingle sounds etc.

Pedagogy education and upbringing | 0 Comments
12 Oct

ANSWER: Musical instruments are not permitted even for children.

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QUESTION: If the parents raise up their children really badly. Don’t force them to pray or fast. Themselves don’t pray. Don’t know about Islam send their children to secular coed schools. If the child then grown up and does not pray is completely worldly and materialistic will he still get sins or will his parents bare his sins for raising him up without teaching him Islam.

Pedagogy education and upbringing | 0 Comments
03 Oct

ANSWER: Once he’s an adult, he’s responsible for his own actions and will be sinful and parents are also sinful for not raising the kids on islam. 

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If I teach my son an ayah/surah from the Quran, can I ask my child to keep reading it when iam alive as well i am dead so that it will act as a Sadaqah jariyah for me?

Fiqh of the family, Pedagogy education and upbringing, Reading/Reciting the Quran
09 Aug

ANSWER: No problem. 

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Is it permissable to have an celebration party with family members for someone who had circumsision

Halal/Haram Matters, Pedagogy education and upbringing
06 Aug

ANSWER: This is not from the sunnah and it is more of a Jewish tradition. 

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Sheikh do parents have to make sure that their children are eating the same share with regard to things like cereal for example, like making sure all children eat the same amount of bowls(of cereal)? Considering the children are of close age

Fiqh of the family, Pedagogy education and upbringing
14 Jul

ANSWER: No! This is too extreme. Each child has different appetite and likings, you can’t force them to eat exactly like the other siblings!

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Is it permissible for children to wear dress with images,cartoon characters ect?

Halal/Haram Matters, Images and image-making, Pedagogy education and upbringing
30 Jun

ANSWER: This is not permissible.  It is permissible to give children toys that have the shape of humans or animals. It is not permissible to have these drawings on the clothes of children.

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Is it haram to find out the gender of the baby before it is born?

Halal/Haram Matters, Pedagogy education and upbringing
18 May

ANSWER: No problem in this as long as it is legal in your country.

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I’m pregnant and InShaAllah due for delivery in 2-3 days. If baby is delivered during the day, my husband would be fasting and rest of males too. How can we do the sunnah of putting chewed date in baby’s mouth?

Pedagogy education and upbringing
09 Apr

ANSWER:   Anyone can do that even females! 

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From Bangladesh. Toddlers have some toys that have all the colors of the rainbow. They are introduced to different colors through toys. Some young Islamic thinkers forbid giving these toys to children. According to them, it could lead to future homosexuality of children. How logical is that?

Pedagogy education and upbringing
07 Apr

ANSWER: This is not logical at all! Why not prevent them from looking at the sky after it stops raining so that they won’t see rainbow colors as well? No problem in kids playing with normal colorful toys.

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