Moral Upbringing of Children

There is a narration with regard to how Hazrat Umar (ra) would ensure the moral upbringing of children. Yusuf bin Yaqub said, “Ibn Shihab said to me, my brother and my cousin when we were still young children, ‘You should not consider yourself inferior based on the fact that you are children. The reason for this is that whenever Hazrat Umar (ra) encountered a certain issue, he would gather the children and seek their suggestions as well and he did this with the aim of sharpening their minds.’”

(Sirat Umar bin al-Khattab, Ibn al-Jawzi, p. 165, Egypt, Al-Azhar)