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If you go back to your childhood and your memories from childhood

You can remember your uncles or aunties or those adults that were kind to you that were very playful with you

That would make it a point to joke with you that would make you feel welcome and children have a way of detecting that right?

They feel

Kindness or they feel unwanted very easily and that's why the prophets like some stresses

In Arabic

When you wake up, the Prophet's life says that he is not amongst those who show mercy to the young ones

And at the same time, upholds the respect for the elderly

In Arabic

Allah says

I never saw anyone more merciful with children than the Prophet

Allahu ala wa sallam. I mean when you brought your children around the Prophet

sallallahu ala wa sallam, he would do everything but ignore them. He would play with them

sallallahu ala wa sallam. He would talk to them sallallahu ala wa sallam. And that helps

each one of the children develop their own connection, especially to the masjid, right?

You talk about making the children love the masjid, you know, going to the masjid and

seeing that kind adult and especially if there is a sweet Imam or a kind Imam. And in

the case of the Prophet sallallahu ala wa sallam, being your Imam, your child wants to

go see the Prophet sallallam because they know that the Prophet sallallam is going to

talk to them. They know that the Prophet sallallahu ala wa sallam might give them something.

They know that the Prophet sallallahu ala wa sallam is going to be playful with them.

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