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Yet another interesting question that was posed to me by a sister

in one of the lectures in the Gulf tour

was about her inability to have children.

And the fact that because she can't have children, she's been married

for over 10 years, that her mother-in-law says some pretty mean things to her and keeps telling

her son that your daughter, your wife rather is a disappointment.

She says things directly, indirectly through gestures and expresses her displeasure and there's this stigma associated with this woman not being able to have a

child. Now a woman that wants to have a child and is unable to have a child goes

through a lot of emotional trauma on her own as it is. And it doesn't help that an

overzealous mother, you know, puts all this pressure on top of that. And when she

came to me, she was almost in tears already about how her mother-in-law keeps saying these things and her husband doesn't stop her from saying it and the husband is also in an awkward position because that's his mom.

How is he going to stop her from saying this stuff, right? there's a lot of ladies out there, a lot of wonderful, you know, women believers out there that go through similar situations,

where things are said to them, you know, about their inability to have a child that are just absolutely horrendous.

The things to note here that I wanted to bring to everybody's attention is that the ability

to have a child is actually not within the hands of human beings.

This is a gift given from Allah.

And the test that Allah gives us are not an indication of how much he loves or doesn't love

us.

Every human being has tests. Every human being is given difficulty. As a matter of fact, you have

you know prophets that make Dua that they would have some child to carry their legacy and

they don't have any children until very, very, very

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