التربية الإيمانية للأطفال في السنة النبوية

Abstract

This is a descriptive analytical study that highlights the significance of child education from an Islamic perspective which emphasizes the importance of children religious upbringing that profoundly attaches them to their Creator and imprints in their hearts and minds the word of monotheism from their birth to the end of their lives. It illustrates the rights the Creator endows to children. The study also emphasizes that child education should be based on love and devotion to Allah and His Messenger, and recitation of the Holy Quran. Moreover, it shows both the relationship between religious education and the other types of education and the impact of this relationship on the children's life. The study derives it supportive evidence from the Holy Quran and the Prophet's tradition which are collected from reliable Islamic sources documented according to the criteria adopted for documenting such material. The study showed the importance of Islamic education to children and that is necessary to deeply root this education in their hearts to protect them from any threats they will encounter in their life, especially those hazardous to the fundamentals and principles of their religion.