When I spoke about my daughter Noor's fasting (she's eight and a half by the way) and my making her patient by meeting …

When I spoke about my daughter Noor's fasting (she's eight and a half by the way) and my making her patient by meeting Allah pleased with her, some brothers objected that we shouldn't tire children with fasting. So I say dear ones: Scholars stated it's not proper to burden children if fasting harms them or weakens their strength, but at the same time, it's (((completely))) wrong to spare the boy or girl the slightest hardship and be keen they not suffer hunger for a moment!

I liked what I heard from my brother the educator Anas Sheikh Akrim when he said: (Hunger is the best means for teaching patience...for the child to be hungry for hours, then eat and feel the value and pleasure of food), and he mentioned the famous saying: (Be kind to your children from being too kind to them!).

Yes, hunger awaiting the next meal is a wonderful means for training patience, and we've unfortunately lost it with sweets children buy with daily allowance and the available-fridge-anytime policy.

So how if training in patience is joined by training your child from young age on sacrifice for Allah's sake...that you sacrifice the pleasure of food and drink seeking Allah's face. The meaning of sacrifice for Allah is absent from our upbringing in many cases. And Ramadan is an opportunity for an intensive thirty-day course where this great meaning's plant is watered every day.

It's reported that the Companions may Allah be pleased with them used to make their children fast, and when they got hungry would give them toys to distract themselves with.

Be kind to your children from being too kind to them! And raise patience and sacrifice in them, for it's more beneficial for you and them in this world and the Hereafter. For a son who doesn't endure nor sacrifice is a burden on himself and on you.

The comment we attached is from one of the sisters on the post about my daughter. Her son's face lit up when he heard (to meet Allah pleased with you)..These meanings find echoes with our children when they come from our hearts and they read it in our facial features...believe me! For Allah created children with natural love for Him...