Show Mercy to your Children
This post is in: General Upbringing
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) stated, “He is not of us who does not have compassion for his fellow beings”. It is interesting to note that when it comes to Hadith like this or Quranic quotes dealing with human behavior, we never stop to think that our children and family members are also our fellow human beings and that these golden rules must also be applied to them.
Compassion is only one component of the concept of mercy (rahmah) - the others being kindness, respect, and of course love. The are many examples of this in
the sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him), for example:
“A man came to the Holy Prophet and said, “You kiss children but we do not kiss them’. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Do I have any control over you if Allah has taken away mercy from your heart’.”
Bukhari
We should take the Prophet (peace be upon him) as an example in all our affairs, and in the below example, we see Prophet’s (peace be upon him) attitude towards treatments of children as well as how he replied in such a beautiful way that it did not insult the person but served as a lesson.
Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah RA said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) kissed Sayyidina Hasan bin Ali (his grandson). Aqra’bin Habis al-Tameemi who was sitting next to him said, “I have ten children and i have never kissed any of them.” The Prophet (peace be upon him) looked at him and said, “He who does not show mercy is not shown mercy.”
Bukhari, Muslim,Abu dawood, Ahmad
We should always remember that an essential value in Islam and one of the vital characteristics of the Muslim family is the concern and care that parents show for their children.