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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Child's Education in Islam Chapter Two : the First Stage : Stages Before Intercourse and During Pregnancy Islam wants us to have providence with the child and to protect their psychological and physical soundness before their birth.

This is by preparing domain for his movement and to arrange the necessary factors which will protect the child from psychological and physical weakness commencing from the selection of the husband or the wife and the circumstances surrounding the early stages of the child, that is the womb of his mother which played a great and effective role on the child's future and life movement.

The features of this stage are pinpointed as below:- Firslty : Stage Before Intercourse It has been socially and scientifically established in its detailed research the inherited and societal effect in the composition and development of the child. Those inherited reflections may be physically or psychologically.

[^1] Most of the attributes are transferred to the children through the father, mother or their grand fathers like intelligence, unrest conduct, schizo phrenia, mental disorder, personal discipline, flexibility and leniency. This become means that assist in transferring this attributes to the children or the children will possess readiness to adopt them.

This is in addition to the customs and the imitation of the children base on repetition of actions.[^2] From this point of view Islam has emphasized on the selection of spouse, that is selection of the spouses from righteous family and from good environment. 1- SELECTING WIFE. From the teaching of Islam, it has considered selecting wife from two aspects: the heredity she descend from and the society where she lives and its reflection on her ways of life and conduct.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his descendants) said: "Choose for your semen because the maternal uncle is one of the spouses"[^3]. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his descendants) said: "Choose for your semen because the vein is a schemer"[^4]. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his descendants) does emphasize on selection of wife from the family that possess noble attributes of the hereditary effect it plays in the composition of the wife and that of her progeny.

He (peace be upon him and his descendants) chooses Khadijah (peace be upon her) that delivered Fatima (peace be upon her) the best of the women.