This depends on the child!You are the one who knows if he is prepared or not. There isn’t anything is islam that forbids it as there isn’t anything that recommends it, either!

I will be making the intention to do aqeeqah by slaughtering animals soon. I want to take my 9 year old step son to witness it but my wife finds it could scare him where as I find it will build him. Is there anything in Islam forbidding children from participating or watching this ritual? In Canada kids don’t get to see this and have no clue on the food chain.

Q&A / Fatwas, Slaughtering | May 26, 2014 11:52 am
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