Woman in her Childhood

The life of a woman is full of so many turning points. However, there are four important phases in the life of a woman:

1. Her childhood
2. Her adulthood
3. After the Marriage
4. & As a mother.

WOMAN IN HER CHILDHOOD

A girl is very dear to her parents. Before her attaining the age of puberty, she is free from any religious obligation. She is supposed to enjoy her life at her father's house with the single motto, eat, drink & be merry. She enjoys the love & affection of her parents, her sisters, brothers & other relatives. When she starts speaking, the parents should teach her the basics of the religion & faith. The childhood is an age of learning. A child attains considerable amount of knowledge till the age of five that she would never get throughout her life. This is the period when the first schooling of the child starts with her first teacher & the mother.

When the girl is five-year-old, she should be taught lessons of personal hygiene. She should also be given training in human behaviour with special emphasis on adopting good things & discarding bad habits. This is also the time to start her education. The education should start with the learning of the Holy Quraan. She should memorize at least the last few Suras of the 30th Part of the Holy Quraan especially Surah Fatiha, Surah An-Naas, Surah Al-Falaq, Surah Ikhlaas, Surah Al-Kafiroon. She should know the Islamic way of purification, Wudu (ablution) & Ghusl (bath).

At the age of seven the girl should be taught the fundamentals of Islam such as Salaat. This is the age when the girl should cultivate the habit of Pardah. She should also be taught washing of utensils, minor stitching jobs & other domestic chores of common nature. She should be suitably admonished for her idling, laziness, carelessness & mischief. She should not be allowed to mingle with the girls & woman of low character. She should be kept away from evils of reading romantic literature, seeing movies & listening to sexy music, etc. These evils adversely affect the morale of the child & encourage her to adopt bigger evils.