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Children’s Rights on Parents 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Children’s Rights on Parents 2 2023-01-27 364 Views Islam , Islam and Children , Children's rights , Parents' duties In continuation of the topic titled “Children’s Rights on Parents”, we shall focus on some other rights of the children on their parents in this part.

Contents Treating All the Children Equally: Responsibility of Marriage Cleanliness and Hygiene in the Family Structure Treating All the Children Equally: The Prophet (PBUH&HP) has emphasized that parents should be just and fair to all their children, particularly in matters of gifts and kindness, and it must not be that while one gets more the other gets less or nothing.

Besides, if discrimination is made among the children and one is favoured more than the other, it will lead to ill will and jealousy, and nothing but evil can arise from this. This child who is discriminated against will bear a grudge against the father, the painful consequences of which are easy to imagine. Moman ibn Bashir narrates: My father took me to the Prophet (PBUH&HP) and said to him: I have given a slave to this son of mine.

The Prophet inquired, have you given the same to all of your sons? No, my father replied. The Prophet, thereupon, said: It is not correct. Take it back. In another version, the same narration, the Prophet asked: do you want all your children to be equally devoted to you? Yes, of course, he replied.

The Prophet said: Then do not act like that (let it not be that you give some property to one child and exclude the others.) In yet another version it is added that the Prophet remarked: I cannot be a witness to an act of injustice. In this version, it is enjoined upon parents not to discriminate among their children when it comes to giving them something as a gift, etc. This has been condemned by the Prophet (PBUH&HP) as unjust and unfair.

Some of the learned people have gone to the extent of calling it Forbidden (Haraam), but the majority of them hold the view that though it is not Haraam, it is Undesirable (makruh). It must, however, be emphasized that the command applied only to a situation where the preferential treatment is based on a consideration that is not lawful or justifiable in the eye of the Shariah otherwise no blame will be attached to it.