A girl is very dear to her
parents. Before her attaining the age of puberty, she is free from any
religious obligation. She is supposed to enjoy her life at her father's
house with the single motto; eat, drink and be merry. She enjoys the love
and affection of her parents, her sisters, brothers and other relatives.
When she starts speaking, the parents should teach her the basics of the
religion and faith. The childhood is an age of learning. A child attains
considerable amount of knowledge till the age of five that she would never
get throughout her life. This is the period when the first schooling of the
child starts with her first teacher, The mother.
When the girl is five-year-old, she should be taught lessons of personal
hygiene. She should also be given training in human behaviour with special
emphasis on adopting good things and discarding bad habits. This is also the
time to start her education. The education should start with the learning of
the Holy Quraan. She should memorize at least the last few Suras of the 30th
Part of the Holy Quraan especially Sura Fateha, Sura An-Naas, Sura Al-Falaq,
Sura Ikhlaas, Sura Al-Kafiroon. She should know the Islamic way of
purification, Wudu (ablution) and Ghusl (bath).
At the age of seven the girl should be taught the fundamentals of Islam such
as Salaah. This is the age when the girl should cultivate the habit of
Pardah. She should also be taught washing of utensils, minor stitching jobs
and other domestic chores of common nature. She should be suitably
admonished for her idling, laziness, carelessness and mischief. She should
not be allowed to mingle with the girls and women of low character. She
should be kept away from evils of reading romantic literature, seeing movies
and listening to music, etc. These evils adversely affect the morale of the
child and encourage her to adopt bigger evils. |