While dividing teaching into stages, we must pay attention to the student’s reality as a child or mature (baaligh) person at each stage. And we must refer to the Shari’ah evidences and rules they denote as related to the child or mature person with respect to how his guardian (waliyy al-amr), and consequently the teacher and educator deals with him, since in Islam, the Creator the Director (Al-Mudabir), the Lord of the World, has brought a binding system to regulate how humans deal with each other.

Among the evidences related to this subject is Allah Ta’ala’s saying (Surah An-Nur Ayah 58):

﴿يََ أَيُّ هَا الَّ ي ذينَ آمَنُوا لييَسْتَأْيذنكُمُ الَّ ي ذينَ مَلَكَتْ أَيَْْانُكُمْ وَالَّ ي ذينَ لََْ يَ بْ لُغُوا الُْْلُمَ يمنكُ مْ ثَلََثَ مَرَّا ت يمِّن قَ بْيل صَلََية الْفَجْير وَي حينَ تَضَعُونَ ثييَابَكُم يمِّنَ الظَّيهيرَية وَيمن بَ عْ ي د صَلََية الْيعشَايء ثَلََثُ عَوْرَا ت لَّكُمْ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَا عَلَيْيهمْ جُنَاحٌ بَ عْدَهُنَّ طَوَّافُونَ عَلَيْكُم بَ عْضُكُمْ عَلَىٰ بَ عْ ض كَذَٰليكَ ي بَُييِّنُ اللَّ هُ لَكُمُ الْآيََ ي ت وَاللَّ هُ عَلييمٌ حَ ي كيمٌ ﴾ “O you who have believed, let those whom your right hands possess and those who have not [yet] reached puberty among you ask permission of you [before entering] at three times: before the dawn prayer and when you put aside your clothing [for rest] at noon and after the night prayer. [These are] three times of privacy for you. There is no blame upon you nor upon them beyond these [periods], for they continually circulate among you - some of you, among others. Thus does Allah make clear to you the verses; and Allah is Knowing and Wise.” And He Ta’ala said in the following Ayah:

﴿وَإيذَا بَ لَغَ الْأَطْفَالُ يمنكُمُ الُْْلُمَ فَ لْيَسْتَأْيذنُوا كَمَا اسْتَأْذَنَ الَّ ي ذينَ يمن قَ بْيليهمْ كَذَٰليكَ ي بَُييِّنُ اللَّ هُ لَكُمْ آيََتييه وَاللَّ هُ عَلييمٌ حَ ي كيمٌ ﴾ “And when the children among you reach puberty, let them ask permission [at all times] as those before them have done. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses; and Allah is Knowing and Wise.” [] And the Prophet (SAW) said: