The Urgency of Islamic Education in Early Children in Forming Islamic Personality

Abstract

Islamic education is an important foundation for early childhood. Early childhood is the basis for physical, motoric, cognitive, religious and moral values, language, social-emotional, and artistic development. Stimulation of children must be adjusted to the needs and development of each child, children have different developments and growths with the child's needs achieved optimally. The golden age is a critical period in the stages of life, which is the basis of development that determines the next child's development. Children's memory will develop very rapidly, this is a lot of new experiences that children get from the surrounding environment. Therefore, the family has a very important role in instilling Islamic education from an early age. The importance of inculcating religious values from an early age in order to create human beings who have noble character and have an Islamic personality. Islamic education is also given starting at the stage of child development, starting from the prenatal phase to the childhood stage. Furthermore, instilling faith from an early age, namely teaching the sentence of monotheism, the sentence of tasbih, the sentence of tahmid, instilling love for Allah and His Messenger, teaching, introducing, and listening to the Qur'an and the value of struggle and sacrifice in Islam. Then it was also introduced to worship, especially prayer, ablution, reading daily prayers. Islamic nuances are also taught in order to form noble character. Education is not limited to formal schools, but education takes place from the time a child is born until the end of his life. Education is very important in life, without education a child cannot develop. Stimulations of Islamic Education that are sought to shape the Islamic personality.