
This book is an authentic collection of Ayahs of Qur'an and over 500 Hadiths on children. The topics include preparations by parents before the birth of child, taking their care after birth and naming them to the detailed description of utmost care in the training of children from Islamic perspective.
- Children in the Qur’an and Sunnah
- Introduction
- Section 1: The Foundations of Upbringing a Child
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Family
- 1.1: The Forming of a Family
- 1.2: Seeking to have a Child
- 1.3: The Virtue of a Righteous Child
- 1.4: The Believers’ Offspring will be with them in Heaven
- 1.5: The Virtue of Tolerating the Troubles of a Child
- 1.6: Abundant Children
- 1.7: The Virtue of Girls
- 1.8: The Reward of Upbringing Girls
- 1. 9: Taking Care of Daughters
- 1.10: The Censure of Disliking Girls
- 1.11: The Bane of Having a Bad Child
- 1.12: Beseeching Allah for a Righteous Family
- Chapter 2: Heredity
- Chapter 3: The Food of the Parents
- Chapter 4: The Forming of the Life-germ
- Section 2: The Rights of Children
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Rights of a Newborn
- Chapter 2: The Rights of a Suckling Infant
- Chapter 3: Education
- 3.1: The Value of Seeking Knowledge at a Young Age
- 3.2: The Value of Upbringing
- 3.3: The Responsibility of Education and Upbringing
- 3.4: The Most Important Obligatory Thing to Teach
- 3.5: The Age of Upbringing and Disciplining a Child
- 3.6: The Method of Islamic Upbringing
- A- Honouring, Gentleness, Sympathy and Love
- B- Strictness and Uncompromising
- C- Practical Disciplining
- An Analysis on the Methods of Upbringing Children
- 1- The upbringing method based on strictness
- 2- The upbringing method based on kindness and lack of strictness
- 3- The upbringing method based on lack of kindness and lack of strictness
- 4- The upbringing method based on affection and decisiveness
- 5- The upbringing method based on love, strictness and dignity
- 3.7: The Banes of Upbringing
- 3.8: Sex Education
- Some Words about Sex Education
- Necessary Planning for Sexual Chastity
- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Upbringing
- 4.1: Encouragement of the Loving of Children and Having Sympathy to Them
- 4.2: The Prophet’s Conduct in Kindness to Children and Dignifying Them
- 4.3: Greeting Children
- 4.4: Reproaching the Disliking of Children
- 4.5: The Boundaries of Love to Children
- 4.6: Justice Between Children
- 4.7: Fulfilling a Promise
- 4.8: Bringing Happiness
- Chapter 5: Ornamentation and Playing
- 5.1: Ornamenting Children
- 5.2: Praising the Playfulness of Children
- 5.3: Allowing a Child to Play
- 5.4: Acting in a Childish Manner for Children And Playing with Them
- 5.5: The Children’s Entertainment Place
- The Function of Playing in the Growth of a Child
- The Importance of Playing from a Psychological Viewpoint
- A Psychological Analysis of Playing
- The Age of Playing
- The Parents Playing with the Child
- Chapter 6: Supplication
- Section 3: The Child’s Duties
- Chapter 1: The Individual Duties of a Child
- Chapter 2: The Children’s Duties towards their Parents
- Chapter 3: The Child’s Duties Towards His Teacher
- Chapter 4: The Child’s Duties Towards Elders and Friends
- 4.1: Initiating with Greeting
- 4.2:Observing Rights
- 4.3: Taking the Elders as Examples
- 4.5: Honouring
- 4.6: Assisting
- 4.7: Sharing
- 4.8:Maintaining Friendship
- 4.9: Good Interaction
- 4.10: Good Remembrance
- 4.11: Advice and Goodwill
- 4.12: Presenting the Defect as a Gift
- 4.13: Ignoring Faults
- 4.14: Avoidance of Scorning
- 4.15: Avoiding Hurting Others