A Jurisprudential Study of Separating Children's Beds

Sexual ethics is one of the most important aspects of education and upbringing (tarbiyah) with special methods allotted to it in religious texts. Not giving importance to necessary preventions can entail grave consequences for the trainee because he will be afflicted with illicit lust. Such problems are then difficult to cure. Thus, prevention methods are of immense importance in this regard. Among those methods that can be taken into consideration is to separate a child’s bedroom. The necessity or desirability of doing this is among the questions that the present research aims to investigate. The different aspects of this topic such as the concept of “bed”, gender, blood relation, continuity or discontinuity of obligation and questions of this nature are among the eleven subtitles discussed in this article.