What is your Eminence's opinion regarding the prayer of a discerning child in the first row, and should he be sent away to the back rows?
The boy should be encouraged to pray and not be alienated from it. If he is in the first or second grade, they should not be gathered in one place, so they do not become alienated from prayer, nor cause distraction and play for those praying. The people of the mosque should note to separate them in the rows to keep them apart. And whoever among them reaches the first row first should be allowed to remain there.
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