{"_id":"66f3748c922058831ee27c34","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"For a young man who has reached the age of puberty and fulfills the requirements of leading salah, (in this example referring to a 14 year old)is it recommended to have him lead the family in salah or should we always have the dad/elder/ more experienced lead?\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"For a young man who has reached the age of puberty and fulfills the requirements of leading salah, (in this example referring to a 14 year old)is it recommended to have him lead the family in salah or should we always have the dad/elder/ more experienced lead and only have the 14 year old lead when no other male is available? Only issue we face is his sister arguing that she should lead? \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"It’s better to teach kids as soon as they are ready to learn and not treat them like children well into their adulthood. If you look at the sahaba, many of them were teenagers yet the prophet (ﷺ) gave them great responsibilities. We also have examples where young sahaba, perhaps not even teenagers yet, were leading prayers. Usama bin Zaid was appointed general of an army at the age of 17-18 with senior sahaba under his command. If your son is the most knowledgeable in the rules of salah, then he should be leading every salah, if he’s not the most knowledgeable but he does know the rules, then it would be recommended to have him lead on occasion to teach him responsibility, encourage him, and build his confidence. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"As parents, you need to ensure that this is actually good for him, so if he begins to see it as a privilege and not a responsibility, or he begins to feel a sense of pride and arrogance, then it’s no longer beneficial to allow him to lead until these issues are addressed. She can lead an all female group.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Also, it’s a chance to explain to her that Allah has assigned men and women different responsibilities, out of His divine wisdom. These roles don’t make one gender better than the other. If women were to lead salah then our mother Aisha would have been the first to do so, she was better than a thousand men.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9fe60b76658b4c232875","tag":"Salah: Congregational","count":92},{"_id":"66f3748c922058831ee27c2f","tag":"Imam","count":3},{"_id":"66e2197a0793086d7b66bb8f","tag":"Puberty","count":2},{"_id":"66f3748c922058831ee27c32","tag":"Lead Prayer","count":1}],"createdOn":"2024-09-25T02:25:16.122Z"}