Hallucinations in children.

[saihah]

brothers and sisters.

Has any of you had experience with children who "see things" at random, not nightmares. Is this common among growing kids? How do you deal with it?

[shakibbhat]

What kind of things?

[saihah]

He saw someone in the room last night, someone playing. He got scared and couldn't sleep all night. It's a pious family, and they do dhikr and dua, I think it's the kid's imagination. He is a very active 4 yr old. But I wonder if things like this are normal?

[firaswagner]

He saw someone in the room last night, someone playing. He got scared and couldn't sleep all night. It's a pious family, and they do dhikr and dua, I think it's the kid's imagination. He is a very active 4 yr old. But I wonder if things like this are normal?

its normal..when my kids were little,they saw shadows and even a floating head outside our windows..but i told them they were just jinns and explained to them about their existence and how to deal with them.

[iSawab]

It is difficult to get in the heads of the toddlers, but they seem to have a fear of something, big or small, all the time.
Remember, fear is a blessing from Allah swt, one to protect oneself physically from obvious dangers. As long as the fear doesnt last too long with the kid in question, he should be fine. Dhikr and Dua is the correct medicine for it.
My 5-year old will not go into a room that has less light than outside of the room - he wasnt that way before. But he'll happily accompany me even if it is pitch dark.

He saw someone in the room last night, someone playing. He got scared and couldn't sleep all night. It's a pious family, and they do dhikr and dua, I think it's the kid's imagination. He is a very active 4 yr old. But I wonder if things like this are normal?

[iSawab]

JZAK for this valuable insight - never did occur to me to speak to a little boy about jinns.

its normal..when my kids were little,they saw shadows and even a floating head outside our windows..but i told them they were just jinns and explained to them about their existence and how to deal with them.

[apostrophe]

IIRC, there' a hadith which says that the prophet PBUH used to read this and place his hand on the faces of Hasan and Husain RA.

أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَهَامَّةٍ وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لَامَّةٍ

"I seek refuge in the complete words of Allah, from every devil and vermin(?), and every evil eye."

Source: Al-Bukhari, see http://www.islamweb.net/hadith/displ...144&pid=367665

[ze leetle elper]

Personally, I would not advise to mention jinn to your 4 year old or suggest that what he is seeing is jinn. You can just say that sometimes things look different in the dark, it can be a shadow moving, or wind blowing outside the window. If its during the daytime, its common for many children to have 'imaginary' friends or things/ people they see, it is just their imagination working overtime!

It shouldn't be an issue as long as it doesn't affect them so much that they feel scared/ worried. If they do feel scared/ worried you can teach them to recite 'audho billahi......' and explain that Allah is close to them and can help them to feel brave and strong

Try not to go down the 'boogeyman' route!