 وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزال وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهادي ولا أتأوله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على عبد الله ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته نبدأ بقرأة الله وطلبه الله وطلبه المشاهد على المشاهد المسجد ومسجده محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ومسجده ومسجده نقوم نقوم بالتهمية بأن أطفالنا are a gift from Allah and a blessing from Allah ومسجده ومسجده ومسجده ومسجده ومسجده ومسجده that means that there can be difficulties that come along as well as goodness and blessings that come along as well and we have to be careful that we manage that situation in the right way so we're going to continue on talking about the fact that our children are a blessing from Allah by mentioning the ayah in which Allah spoke about the prophet نوح عليه السلام أن الله عز وجل تولس رغادين و النوح ساد فقلت استغفر ربكم إنه كان غفارة يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارة و يمددكم بأموال وبنين و يجعل لكم جنات و يجعل لكم أنهارة ما لكم لا ترجون لله وقارة في صورة نوح الله عز وجل فقلتنا عن ما نوح فقلت و نوح فقلت أنا فقلت أساعدة لأموالك نوح فقلت أساعدة لأموالك أساعدة لأموالك أساعدة لأموالك is always forgiving ما سيحدث إذا تساعدت أساعدة لأموالك و this is from the virtues of استغفار by the way from the virtues of asking Allah to forgive you it's very important the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said توبة that made the paradise or a tree in paradise before the one who sees in his صحيفة in his scroll a lot of استغفار paradise for the one who sees a lot of استغفار in their scrolls of good deeds so there's many virtues to asking Allah's forgiveness here نوح advises his people to seek the forgiveness of Allah أساعدة لأموالك أساعدة لأموالك to forgive you إنه كان غفاره he's always forgiving two things here first of all he said كان which here the word كان يفيد الإستمرار it tells us that it's a constant it's a constant description of Allah it's never something that goes and comes and the word غفار it has here سيغة المبالغة it is in the form of emphasis it's given emphasis the word غفار is in itself emphasized that Allah is always immensely forgiving always Allah is immensely forgiving what will happen as a reward of that رسل السماء عليكم مدرارة the rain will come down upon you time and time again Allah will cause the rain to fall down from the sky وَيُمْدِدُكُمْ بِأموالِمْ وَبَنِينَ and Allah will give you an increase in wealth and children Allah will give you an increase in wealth and an increase in children and this again shows us that if wealth and children and having an increase in them is related to إستغفار then it is a blessing from Allah عز وجل so we can take it as a blessing because Allah is giving it as a reward for إستغفار and we can also learn that one of the ways that we can improve our situation in terms of the mata'a of this dunya the intemporary enjoyment of this dunya is to make a lot of إستغفار and Allah will make for you gardens and Allah will make for you rivers then Allah said why is it that you don't give Allah عز وجل his just status that he has why is it that you don't give Allah عز وجل that status that he deserves سبحانه وتعالى and so again this reminds us that all of these things come from Allah it reminds us that إستغفار and it gives a benefit that إستغفار and asking Allah to forgive us and so on with sincerity and really realizing the mistakes that we have and turning to Allah can be a reason to be given these gifts and he emphasizes to us again that children are a gift from the gifts of this worldly life and Allah عز وجل said وأتاكم من كل ما سألتموه وإن تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحصوها إن الإنسان لظلوم كفار الله عز وجل said الله gave you from everything that you asked him and if you count or try to count the blessings of Allah you'll never be able to enumerate them indeed man is extremely oppressive and extremely ungrateful now I want to ask you a question here what does this ayah have to do with children and I'll give you a warning it might be a little bit there might be a little bit of a trick question in it but let's see how many of you get the right answer for this one there might be more than one answer I'll mention to you the translation of the ayah again and he gave you from everything that you asked him and if you count the blessings of Allah you will not be able to enumerate them you will not be able to actually reach even if you try to count every blessing that you have you wouldn't be able to actually get all of them and bring all of them indeed man is very oppressive and extremely ungrateful okay that being said what does this ayah have to do with children have a pause of the video maybe if you've got your family watching you can discuss it among each other maybe you can even look up the ayah in the مصحف the ayah is صورة إبراهيم which is the 14th صورة ayah number 34 have a think so insha'Allah you paused the video and I hope you had a think actually the reason I brought this ayah to be honest is because of the ayah that comes after it وإذ قال إبراهيم and what I wanted to show and even though you could have mentioned that this is from the things that children are from the things people constantly ask Allah for it's one of the most common du'a's that O Allah give me children give me righteous children and so on correct my children and we're going to come to some of those du'a's insha'Allah as we move on through the course insha'Allah but actually that very next ayah the very next ayah talks about the du'a of إبراهيم to protect his children from making upon it with Allah and that to me there is a direct link between those two things that the children are a blessing and when Allah mentions his blessings the very next ayah after he mentions you can't count his blessings he mentions children and he mentions protecting your children from falling into a shirk from falling into polytheism and making a partner with Allah so to me I actually was thinking about the ayah and there's more than one ayah in the Quran where Allah talks about the نعم of Allah and you can't count them you won't be able to count all of the blessings of Allah and thanking the blessings of Allah and I was thinking which ayah should I use in the course which one should I present to the students which one is the most appropriate and then when I thought about the ayah and surat ibrahim I thought immediately afterwards that this is the right one to use because this is the one that immediately afterwards Allah سبحانه وتعالى speaks about the blessings of children and Allah protecting إبراهيم's children and ibrahim's concern for his children so Allah سبحانه وتعالى أتاكم من كل ما سألته Allah gave you from everything that you asked and then in the next ayah Allah talks about the dua of إبراهيم where إبراهيم asked Allah make this city safe and keep me and my children away from worshipping idols we're going to talk about this to Allah later on Insha'Allah in more detail because it's going to come again on the topic of the rights of the children but I just want to emphasize it إبراهيم خلي الرحمن the close friend of the most merciful the one who is the most among the most beloved to Allah and this إبراهيم this dua that he makes this dua that he makes and he asks Allah and begs Allah to keep his children away from idols سبحانه وتعالى does that not show you how how scared إبراهيم was that his children would fall into shirk his children would fall into into polytheism and into idol worship even though إسماعيل and إسحق were prophets they were prophets from the NBA they were prophets and yet إبراهيم was so scared of shirk of falling into polytheism that he would ask Allah keep my children away from worshiping keep me and my children away from worshiping idols إبراهيم is a prophet he's two children are prophets and he makes dua to Allah to keep him and his children away from worshiping idols and that's why really you see the wisdom of putting this ayah in باب الخوف من الشرق in the chapter of fearing shirk that you look at the fear that إبراهيم had that his children would fall into polytheism but I actually wanted to bring this ayah for a different reason because immediately after Allah mentioning that He gives you everything you ask for and that if you counted all the blessings of Allah you wouldn't be able to count them then Allah عز وجل mentions the blessing of children and Allah is protecting you and your children from falling into a shirk بالله عز وجل making a partner with Allah عز وجل our next ayah as we're talking about children as a blessing and a gift from Allah عز وجل we're going to talk about the beginning of سورت مريم الله عز وجل said كافها يا عينصاد ذكر رحمة ربك عبده زكرية إذ ناد ربه نداء خفية قال رب إني وهن العظم مني واشتعل الرأس شيبا ولم أكن بدعائك رب شقية وإني خفت الموالي من وراء وكانت امراءتي عاقرا فهبلي من لدنك ولي يرثني ويرث من آلية عكوبة وجعله رب رضية سورة مريم من the first ayah to the sixth ayah الله عز وجل منشن الحروف المقاطع in the beginning of سورت مريم those broken letters that Allah عز وجل knows best about their meaning and they are a challenge in reality to the Arabs who were experts in poetry and language to bring that they can't they even though these are just letters they can't fully explain and understand their meanings and they can't bring the likes of it even though they are the same letters that they use in their speech and that is from the better things which are said about these letters which are the broken letters in the Quran and then Allah عز وجل says about the mercy of Allah towards his servant زكارية and then Allah عز وجل talks about how he gave زكارية a child and he gave him يحيا so the first thing we want to take from this series of ayat is that the child is from the رحمة of Allah عز وجل the child is from the رحمة of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that's why Allah عز وجل said ذكر رحمة ربك عبده زكارية mentioning the mercy of your Lord to his servant زكارية إذ ناد ربه نداء خفية when he called upon his Lord with a quiet supplication a silent supplication and this when he called upon Allah in private and he called upon Allah عز وجل this supplication it was from the رحمة the mercy of Allah that Allah gave him يحيا and so children are from the رحمة of Allah عز وجل the gift of being given a child is from the رحمة from the mercy of Allah عز وجل he said my Lord indeed my bones have become weak and my head has become gray and I have never been towards your دعا شقية he's never been neglectful of the دعا of Allah عز وجل or without hope or despairing and he's never been in a state of this of wretchedness and turning away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى rather he has always been diligent in his دعا calling upon Allah in fear and hope and has always been hoping and expecting for an answer from Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said and indeed I fear الموالية من ورائي I fear those who will inherit after me and they said that الموالي here are the other relatives not descendants of his because he didn't have any children but they were from the you know for example the uncle the uncles and their children and so on the more distant relatives that he feared from what will happen after me وكانت مراءة عقرة and my wife is barren she's not able to have any children فهب لي من لدن كوالية فهب give me the gift of an inheritor who comes from me give me from me and an inheritor and here the inheritor as he said ياريثوني وياريثوا من آلي عقوب he will inherit me and he will inherit from the family of ya'akub now what it seems here is first of all we want to highlight that he said هب لي فهب لي من لدن كوالية give me the gift give me the gift of having a child who will inherit from me and from the family of ya'akub and that appears to be a reference to not only inheriting in terms of wealth but in terms of profit hood because the profits didn't leave behind دي نارا درهم as the profit size I'm told us they didn't leave behind لم يوريثوا دي نارا ولا درهما they didn't leave behind a dinar or a dirham gold or silver coins but they left behind knowledge so when he says to inherit from me the profits didn't inherit didn't leave behind دي نارا درهم but they left behind knowledge and profit hood and that knowledge is what he wished for يحية to inherit وجعله رب رضية and make him رضية make him so that he is pleased or Allah is pleased with him and he is pleased with like we say رضيتو بالله رب وبالإسلام دينا وبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم I'm pleased with Allah as my Lord and Islam is my religion and محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم as my profit and likewise for Allah to be pleased with him like Allah says رضي الله عنهم ورضو عن الله please with them and they are pleased with him so make him رضية make him from those who are pleased with Allah as their Lord and make him from those who are pleasing to Allah as their Lord so these are all of the benefits that we can take from this the fact that it is a rahma the fact that our children are a gift and the dua of زكارية to have children that dua that he made to Allah عز وجل and this is also mentioned elsewhere in the Quran for example الله عز وجل وزكارية إثناد ربه رب لا تظرني فردا وانت خير وارثين وزكارية when he called upon his Lord my Lord do not leave me alone alone meaning without a child and you are the best of الوارثين you are the best of those who inherit and here we have a dua which is one of the duas that is legislated to make for children if you don't have any children to say رب لا تظرني فردا وانت خير الوارثين but the reason I brought this here is actually to show that if this is from the duas of the prophets عليهم الصلاة والسلام then this is a blessing from Allah عز وجل because the prophets only ask for that which is good and that which brings them near to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so he said رب لا تظرني فردا والله don't leave me alone i.e. here without a child without a child and one of the benefits we didn't mention this in Surah Maryam we could have also mentioned it is one of the benefits of the children is they carry on the work that you do إن شاء الله وتعالى we hope the good work that you do carries on through your children فاستجبنا له ووهبنا له يحيا وأصلحنا له زوجة إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبة وكانوا لنا خاشعين this is in Surah Anbiya between ayah number 89 and ayah number 90 الله عز وجل said and we answered him and we gave him the gift of يحيا ووهبنا له يحيا we gave him the gift of يحيا وأصلحنا له زوجة and we made his wife right we made her able to bear children indeed they used to rush to do good deeds and they used to call upon us in fear and hope and they were submissive and humble before us سبحان الله if anyone ever and I really believe this is a benefit it's worth writing down write down the reference to this ayah سورة الأنبياء which is ayah number 21 سورة number 21 ayah number 90 and this is the answer why so many people's du'a is not answered or the reason why so many people's du'a is not answered or why is it that people's du'a is answered سبحان الله look at the description look at what Zechariah got he was old his wife couldn't have children and yet they were given a child after that someone says wow how could that happen the reason is that الله عزوجل said إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات they used to rush to do good deeds they used to make du'a to us in fear and hope they used to submit with humility and humbleness and complete submission before Allah عزوجل and that is the situation you need to be in if you want your du'a to be accepted it is not only this is not only said about Zechariah but about all the prophets that were mentioned prior to that ايوب is mentioned يونس is mentioned ايوب but he was saved from his extreme sickness and loss of his family and poverty that happened to him because of the shaitan as a test from Allah عزوجل ايوب got his du'a answered يونس when he went into the belly of the fish or the belly of the whale and he was spat out onto the shore when he was extremely sick and Allah عزوجل sent him back to his people all of them accepted Islam and his du'a was answered and then Zechariah when he was an old man and his wife couldn't have children and then they had children and his du'a was answered why إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات because they used to rush to do good deeds ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبا and they used to call upon us in fear and hope وكانوا لنا خاشعين and they had that humbleness and submission and خشوعة and خشية towards Allah سبحانه وتعالي they had fear of Allah they had خشوعة they had humbleness and submission before Allah all of that is the reason why Allah عزوجل answered their du'a and so if you want your du'a to be answered try to reach as close to this description سددو وقاربو do the right thing and come as near to it as you can you will not be able to reach it but do the best that you can to be from the people who rush to do good deeds and who call upon Allah in fear and hope and who are submissive and humble before Allah عز وجل and the closer you can get towards that the more it is that you're going to find that du'a that you make that it seems almost impossible that that du'a could be answered and nothing is impossible for Allah you will find that إن شاء الله will be answered the closer you will get towards that description and the more you strive to be from the people who this is their description they rush and race each other in doing good deeds and they call upon Allah in fear and hope and they are completely submissive and humble before Allah عز وجل and likewise about زكريا إن صرت علي إمران الله عز وجل منشن also هنالك دعا زكريا ربه قال رب بهابلي من لدنك ذرية طيبة إنك سميع الدعاء and when زكريا called upon his Lord in that place that blessed place which is the the محراب the area the prayer area where he would he had Maryam where Maryam was there and Maryam she would find that her food and her risk it was being it just came from nowhere like as a gift from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and زكريا in that place هنالك دعا زكريا ربه he called upon his Lord he said my Lord give me from you ذرية طيبة ذرية طيبة righteous or good good offspring ذرية طيبة they are good and طيبة is a description of everything which is good and everything which is pleasing pleasing and good offspring إنك سميع الدعاء so again the fact that he said oh Allah give me it's a gift from Allah who is الوهاب the one who is always bestowing always giving to his servants give me ذرية طيبة offspring that are good and that was one of also a variation of the دعاء of زكريا for children and Allah عز وجسر صورة الفرقان ayah number 74 والذين يقولون ربنا هبلنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قررة ععيون وجعلنا للمتقين إماما and those who say our Lord give us from our spouses and our offspring those which will be the pleasure of our eyes pleasing to our eyes and make us an example for the pious and here again the fact that you're asking Allah to give you this gift it shows that our children are a gift from Allah عز وجل the fact that our children can be قررة ععيون they can be that which brings pleasure to our eyes from the things which bring us pleasure in the dunya and if we manage it correctly bring us pleasure in the آخرة as well we bring us pleasure يوم القيامة as well and make us an example for the متقين make us an example for the people of Taqwa and that is for us and for our children for us and our children all of us وجعلنا make all of us an example that the people of Taqwa that an example of what it means to be from the people of Taqwa and this is سورة الفرقان آية number 74 as we said which also highlights the same point and Allah عز وجل said أرسلنا رسولا من قبلك وجعلنا لهم أزواجا وضرية and this is in سورة الرعيد in آية number 38 and we already mentioned this on the topic of wives but we want to highlight this point again on the topic of children that we have certainly sent messengers before you and we made for them wives and we made for them offspring so having children is one of the sunan of the MBR one of the things that the prophets did and so that tells us its importance and the fact that it is a blessing from Allah عز وجل and the fact that it's a means for nearness to Allah because the prophets only did that which brought them near to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and so this is from the sunan of the MBR to get married and to have children it's from the sunan of the MBR and that is another proof for the blessing of our children and Allah عز وجل said in سورة النساء in آية number 11 أباءكم وأبناءكم لا تدرون أيهم أقرب لكم نفعا لن you don't know which one is going to be nearer in benefit to you we brought this actually to show the fact that your children can be a great benefit to you in this world and in the hereafter and that's why Allah عز وجل said أباءكم وأبناءكم لا تدرون أيهم أقربوا لكم نفعا you don't know which one is going to be your children and your children and your children you don't know لأنه سيكون المشاهد من يجب أن يفعلك. لا تعلمين أي شخصك. يمكنك يعتقد أنه أن هناك أبا يديني من المشاهد. لم يفعل شيء لك في الدنيا. لم يفعل شيء لك في الدنيا. لم يفعل شيء لك في الدنيا. لم يفعلني أساعد أو أساعدني في طريقة التي أريد. أو أردتني ما أريد منهم في هذه العالمية. لكن لا تعلمين يا ملخياما. أو أن يفعل شخصك. و ربما أبا هؤلاءك سيكون من المشاهدين. يمكن أن أبا يفعل أبا من هؤلاءك. لا تعلمين أي شخصك. لأن أبا يفعلها جيدا أو أبا يفعلها جيدا. أبا يفعلها جيدا أو أبا يفعلها جيدا. لا لا لا. و سوف نكون قادرة لتحديثك و أبي هوريرا قتلت من صحة الله عليه وسلم أنه قال إذا مات الإنسان إن قطع عنه عمله إلا من ثلاث صدقات إنجالية أو علم ينتفع به أو ولد صالح يدع له هذا حديث قتلت من المسلم من أبو هوريرا رضي الله عنه و الله سلوحه و عليه وسلم إذا كان مات إبداً كل منهم يقوموا باستخدامهم أو المعرفة أو المعرفة التي يفعلها أو المعرفة التي يفعلها و أخبرت هذا بعد after the after the ayah في صورة النساء لأكتبك one of the ways your children could benefit you when you don't even realize it أبو ووريرا قلت عندما يسأل أن كل منهم يجدون كل شيء أن تفعله هو قلت وقلت ورطن لك إذا كانت جيد فالتالي يجدون وإذا كانت جيد فالتالي يجدون هذا ما يجب أن تضع قبل الله كالزوجل عندما تقوم بقبل الله هذا ما يجدون وما يجدون في حياتك إلا أن تفعل 3 أشياء يمكنك أن تضع قبل الله وإذا كانت جيد فالتالي إذا كانت جيد فالتالي يجدون أحد هو صدق جارية قلت ورطن هذا هو قلت ورطن ولكن قلت ورطن يجدون إذا كانت جيد فالتالي يقوم بقبل الله عندما يقوم بقبل الله وقد يجدون ورطن ورطن يجدون هذه الملوات يجدون وإذا كانت ڭوال إذا كانت إضافة إذا كانت في ملوات إنه يكتب لكم م البنشة ، might be something that is done for the sake of Allah as long as the benefit continues the person continues to get rewarded for it or knowledge that is benefited from somebody who wrote a book or perhaps left some lectures some audio lectures or video lectures and people continue to benefit منهم then they continue to be rewarded for them even after they die as long as people are benefiting from them and the third one is the one that we wanted here a ولد صالحين يدعو له or a righteous child that makes dua for you and that righteous child that makes dua for you can be a reason that righteous child that makes dua for you can be a reason to benefit you even after you die and what a blessing that is to have children and not just in here the word ولد is it covers boys and girls so it could be a boy it could be a girl you could think that only my sons will benefit me what benefit is my daughter going to bring to me like the people in جاهيلة used to believe they used to say what benefit is my daughter going to bring to me my only my sons will bring me benefit my sons will work for me serve me help me you know they will benefit me they will continue my lineage what benefit will my daughter bring for me perhaps it is your daughter's dua that will be the reason that you enter جنة perhaps your daughter's dua when you thought that daughter wasn't going to benefit you anything like the people in جاهيلة and it's not an Islamic concept but what the people in جاهيلة used to believe and until today still until today the people don't leave this idea that their daughters are not going to benefit them and their daughters are a burden and so on many people still have this false جاهيلة belief but look at that daughter could be the one that makes جاهيلة for you and that جاهيلة could be the reason you enter جنة or that child that you didn't think there was any good from them you couldn't see any good from them boy or girl you said oh what this boy what's he gonna do you know he's not he hasn't benefited me anything he hasn't gone and got a good job he hasn't helped me in my worldly life perhaps that one child would turn to Allah and make جاهيلة for you and that جاهيلة would be the reason you enter جنة ultimately our children that shows you they are they are a huge investment that we have with a big hope of return what is the return we want in our investment it's not a worldly return worldly things don't concern us what concerns us is that our children when we die are there to continue to make جاهيلة for us and might be a reason for our deeds to continue and to continue to get good deeds even after we pass away and that could be our children and it could be our grandchildren and so on who are that people from their lineage that carries on and they make جاهيلة for us and الله سبحانه وتعالى might enter a person to جنة or forgive a person or raise a person's rank in جنة because of this جاهيلة that they make and that is confirmed for us because it is an emphasis for us in the حديث of أبي هورير رضي الله عنه it is narrated by الطبراني in his book on دعاء أنا البيه قي that الله عز وجل أبي هورير رضي from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إن الله تبارك وتعالى لا يرفع للرجل الدرجة فيقول أنى لهذه فيقول بدعاء ولديك لك أبي هورير رضي الله عنه that الله تبارك وتعالى will raise a man's levels up in جنة يوم القيامة الله عز وجل will raise him up levels so he will say what is this where did this come from where did i get this i didn't do anything i have seen my deeds i've seen my scrolls i haven't done any how am i so how have i been raised up so many levels what have i done to deserve this raising of my level and الله will say to him be دعاء ولديك لك because your child made دعاء for you سبحان الله even that it might raise a person up levels in paradise because of the دعاء of their children for them so that's what الله عز وجل made easy for me to mention and i still haven't got to the point where we are going to talk about how our children are a test and a responsibility that's going to come up in the next lesson إن شاء الله تعالى we will hopefully inshallah we will get that far but up to now we still have been talking about our children as a blessing and how we have to show thanks and gratitude to الله عز وجل for that blessing that's إن شاء الله تعالى what Allah made easy for me to mention in this episode and Allah knows best والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up to date with all of the courses we're going to be running and make sure you head over to amauathome.com