ajmal_ihsaas22
Striving For Jannah
Quite a large number of my friends, having gotten married a summer or two summers before, are now pregnant and expecting children. SubhanAllah, what an emmense responsibility! That’s a whole life under your care that you can either lead or mislead - and get rewarded or punished depending on what you tried to do. That’s a breathing, living, beautiful individual that WILL change your life.
Gone are the days where you think mainly of yourself. Or if you’re married, of your husband Gone are the days where you think mainly of what you will do with YOUR future.
What will you do with THEIR future? Your breathing, living, beautiful little person. SubhanAllah! If you want to discuss the point of human selflessness, talk about parenthood.
Would I be scared in that position? HECK yeah I’d be scared. Scared to make the wrong choices, to feed them any piece of wrong information, to imprint on them any wrong misconception, and scared that I might not be able to protect them from this world and all that it brings in the way they deserve.
Laa illaha illahAllah.
But then I think - Allah is Most Merciful of those who are Merciful. He guides whom He wills, and misguides whom He wills. It is not my choice that my children will be guided - rather, it is from Allah’s Mercy and Compassion that He would allow my children to be guided - to know Him and to reverence Him.
I was thinking last night on my way home about Ibn Abbass radiyaAllahu 3anhu and how he was 13 years old when the Prophet sallaAllahu 3alayhi wasallam passed away. Thirteen years old! SubhanAllah… and yet he became one of the largest scholars of Islam. Or Usamah Ibn Zaid who became a commander of an army at 16 years old!(some narrations differ in his age - 16,17, or 18)
And look to our nation of 13 year olds, and 16 year olds… why is it so difficult to believe that they would be able to undertake such tasks or even have those mindsets?
So then I started thinking - if I knew from the time my son or daugther were born that they were to inherit leadership later on in their life, would their upbringing be different than if I had not known? Indeed it would be! SubhanAllah. I’d be preparing them to have a different mentality, to discuss with them certain things at different levels, to take on certain tasks they wouldn’t normally take.
By the Will of Allah, and only by His Will, I will raise amazing Muslims who will be leaders in knowledge and akhlaaq, not only in their communities, but in the world.
Now THAT’S responsibility.
If I want that for my children, I need it for myself as well - I know they need to grow up seeing that example - only by the tawfeeq of Allah. And nothing is too great which Allah is able to grant.
And those who say: “Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring who will be the comfort of our eyes, and make us leaders for the Muttaqun (rightous)” [Surat AlFurqan (25):74]
Gone are the days where you think mainly of yourself. Or if you’re married, of your husband Gone are the days where you think mainly of what you will do with YOUR future.
What will you do with THEIR future? Your breathing, living, beautiful little person. SubhanAllah! If you want to discuss the point of human selflessness, talk about parenthood.
Would I be scared in that position? HECK yeah I’d be scared. Scared to make the wrong choices, to feed them any piece of wrong information, to imprint on them any wrong misconception, and scared that I might not be able to protect them from this world and all that it brings in the way they deserve.
Laa illaha illahAllah.
But then I think - Allah is Most Merciful of those who are Merciful. He guides whom He wills, and misguides whom He wills. It is not my choice that my children will be guided - rather, it is from Allah’s Mercy and Compassion that He would allow my children to be guided - to know Him and to reverence Him.
I was thinking last night on my way home about Ibn Abbass radiyaAllahu 3anhu and how he was 13 years old when the Prophet sallaAllahu 3alayhi wasallam passed away. Thirteen years old! SubhanAllah… and yet he became one of the largest scholars of Islam. Or Usamah Ibn Zaid who became a commander of an army at 16 years old!(some narrations differ in his age - 16,17, or 18)
And look to our nation of 13 year olds, and 16 year olds… why is it so difficult to believe that they would be able to undertake such tasks or even have those mindsets?
So then I started thinking - if I knew from the time my son or daugther were born that they were to inherit leadership later on in their life, would their upbringing be different than if I had not known? Indeed it would be! SubhanAllah. I’d be preparing them to have a different mentality, to discuss with them certain things at different levels, to take on certain tasks they wouldn’t normally take.
By the Will of Allah, and only by His Will, I will raise amazing Muslims who will be leaders in knowledge and akhlaaq, not only in their communities, but in the world.
Now THAT’S responsibility.
If I want that for my children, I need it for myself as well - I know they need to grow up seeing that example - only by the tawfeeq of Allah. And nothing is too great which Allah is able to grant.
And those who say: “Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring who will be the comfort of our eyes, and make us leaders for the Muttaqun (rightous)” [Surat AlFurqan (25):74]
