children and mosque
i just need to let this out. i jokingly asked my dh a few times to take my 2 year old to the mosque when he goes there for isha prayers and last week for the first time he actually did. i probably looked pretty horrible (i’m in my first trimester and i don’t feel well most of the time) that he actually agreed lol. so the first time he was a bit late but managed to pray at the end of the row near the wall, so my dd just stayed beside him and he said she followed the prayer from start to finish. she even does the ruku’, that never happens at home lol. since it went well the first time, he brought her again the second time but he couldn’t get a place near the end this time, so people who were coming late come to pray next to him, when that happens my dd actually moved to the back. so when he couldn’t see her, he couldn’t really focus on his prayers. he kept worrying someone’ll kidnap her or something like that. my dd isn’t the type to make much noise, she was quite the whole time (she was actually following the prayers from behind dh, he peek at her when in sujood position). honestly i have the same worries. there are many cases where people steal in the mosque. i once watch a cctv footage in a mosque where a man wears like a woman wearing niqab and steal a handbag when people were in sujood position. even in masjidil haram people are stealing, lying, taking advantage of you and all that. i just have the thought if people are brave enough to do that in a mosque, they probably can do worst thing like kidnapping. i’m also afraid of pedophiles honestly (nauzubillah min zalik), that’s my worst fear. i dunno, i do feel it’s weird i can’t trust people in a mosque, i don’t feel it’s the safest place, although it should be, right? obviously my dh feels the same way. not sure if he’s gonna take her again lol.