[^1]: The above statement is based on a general observation.

[^1]: The above statement is based on a general observation. But there are cases of boys of about ten years of age having got enough understanding and intelligence to differentiate falsehood from truth, to distinguish wrong from right; and they have chosen right and truth against wrong and falsehood. Such children are Muslims, and their parents' disbelief would not be held against them.

That is why Shaykh Tusi (a .r.) has said that "Responsibility of the boys is of two kinds : Responsibility to acquire true belief and correct faith - It begins for the boys at the age of ten. Responsibility to follow and perform the rules of sharia - It begins for the boys at the age of fifteen:' The same is the import of the fatwa of Sayyid Kazim Yazdi in al-Urwatu 'l-wuthqa, with which all other Mujtahidin agree. Sayyid Mohsin al-Hakim had gone a step further.

According to him, even if that child's Islam was not based on logical understanding (i.e., he was influenced by some individual or society), it would be acceptable and he would be a Muslim. [^2]: The original book mentions only six responsibilities, combining the "Knowledge of unlawful things" with the sixth heading.

I have listed it separately because of its utmost importance [^3]: It has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian and Hausa languages, by the World Organization for Islamic Services (WOFIS), Tehran; and Swahili translation has been published by the Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania, Darussalam. Previous…