The Child's Education in Islam

Preface

The family is the first fundamental institute what in the surplus Social institutions that takes the responsibility of preparing the child before reach in to the society so that he can become an active element for its continuity base on competence, good and active construction. The family is the first point where the origination of one as member of human being, so it is where all positive and negative effect begins. Therefore Islam gives a special consideration to the family that fit its role while discharging his responsibility.

It has then laid down fundamental laws in organizing it and regulates its affairs distributing the specialties and specifies the duties that they are responsible to execute especially training the child with a sound and fair education equilibrated in all aspects of personality, thought, emotion and conduct.

Islam calls for the protection of the family entity and to distance its members from devastation and destruction and all that will lead to creation of confusion and chaos in the relation, which will leads to forfeiture of the child with crumbling the entity which protect and prepared them for future for those anticipating for them.

The Islamic teachings and guidance came to create sound atmosphere in order to develop the child physically, emotionally, morally and his concept. Through fair development it gives ability to the child or a future human being a resistance of inconstancy of the life and rise against its burden, because of this, Islamic method commence with the child from early stages, with marriage relation pass through delivery (birth) nursing and stage before the age of puberty ending when he gain complete independence after self reliance.

We divided the discussion here on chapters:

In the first chapter we deal with the general method of training in family relation. In the second chapter we deal with stages before pregnancy and during pregnancy. For the third chapter we deal with the stage after birth (the stage of breast feeding). In the forth chapter we deal with things that connect with the stage of early childhood and lastly we deal with the youth and Adolescence stage in the fifth chapter.

We will benefit from the verses of the Holy Quran and Narration that specially related from the Ahlulbait (Peace be upon them) and also we will benefit from the modern facts.

{And from Him the most High we obtain help and settlement}