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always a good idea. Small children
quickly became very impatient and
because they were too young to
understand what an important place
a
masjid
was, they used to cry and
make a fuss while prayers were
going on.
Their mothers did not like this, but
neither did they like to interrupt their
prayers to attend to their crying chil-
dren. Perhaps they hoped the child
would get tired of crying and stop by
itself.
The beloved Prophet Muhammad
[s], however, disliked to hear chil-
dren crying, and whenever this hap-
pened during prayers, he would
make the prayers shorter so that the
mothers could comfort their children
without too much delay.
Hasan and Husayn [r] sat very qui-
etly as their grandfather spoke.
