Children and Religious Practitioners (Part 2)

Going to the Mosque

Do not force your children to go to the mosque. This will make them hate it. Some parents motivate their children to do religious practitioners or to go to the mosque by awakening their feelings and emotions. This is a good way for preventing the children from misbehaving and from ignoring the religious values. In order to encourage your children to do religious practitioners:

· Do not make your children go to the mosque with you. Just let them know that you are going. Because they know that you would be happy if they accompany you, they will volunteer to go if they want. This will make them eager to go to the mosque.

· If there is a mosque close to your house, you could let your children go to the mosque alone. They might refuse to go with you, as they want to be independent.

· Register them in the mosque’s cultural base for artistic classes, so that they are in constant relation with the mosque.

·Try to go to the mosque with friends or acquaintances who have children their age.

· Preparing religious facilities for them could make children eager to go to the mosque.

· Try to go to clean and spectacular mosques at the beginning.

· Do not stay for long in the mosque in the beginning.

· Make them familiar with the value and importance of mosques indirectly. Let them know that God rewards people for going to the mosque and that it has positive effects in people’s spiritual life.

·Try to take your children to places like parks, restaurants, etc. at the same time that you take them to the mosque.

·  Reward your children if they show eagerness to go to the mosque.

Translated by: Sadroddin Musawi

Other links:

Parent’s commitment to religious and spiritual matters

Interacting with children from viewpoint of Islam

Some Islamic Directives for parents (Part 1)

Some Islamic Directives for parents (Part 2)