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This topic as a whole, you know, we have to remember that the messenger of Allah

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he encouraged us to have children. So having children is a sunnah

and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, you know, have as many children as you can

for I will be proud of your number on the day of judgment.

Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will boast about the number of Muslims on the day of

judgment. Now obviously this ummah is the largest ummah of believers on the day of judgment out of

all of the nations of the prophets. This ummah will be the largest of them all and Rasulullah

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam encouraged us and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talked about

being proud of us on the day of judgment, you know, the number that we have. Obviously from the

individual perspective from the virtues of having children is that it is the greatest investment

that you can make. As we know the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said that he said to a

person a sun when he was referring to his father. The sun was asking his, you know, was asking the

messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what belongs to my parents. And Rasulullah sallallahu

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said you end what you've earned belong to your father and obviously

to both of your parents but it was in the context of the father at that moment. And Rasulullah sallallahu

sallam said that the child is the earning of his parent, right? You know, Subhanallah you work so

hard you toil to raise this child and because of that everything that that child does goes to your

record. And in fact all of the actions that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said continue

after we die, being Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, a continuous charity, a righteous child to make

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