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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Peace be upon you all, peace be upon you all.

Our question for today, first question, a sister, a mother says,

I have a child who is on the extreme side of the autistic spectrum,

severely autistic, what should I do Islamically in terms of obligations on her,

so female child? I love her immensely, I want her to go to Jenna,

so I want to do my best to make sure that she gets there.

So this is the question we're going to start off with, autistic child,

or let's just make it broader, any child with special needs,

any child that is, a special needs child intellectually,

and even physically this will be covered here.

First and foremost, dear mother and dear parents,

that Allah SWT has chosen to gift a special needs child to,

because it is a gift from Allah Azza wa Jalla,

realize that with this gift there is also a different type of struggle

and a different type of test.

And like all of us have specific trials and tests and gifts and blessings,

so too a child with special needs, it is a gift and a special type of test,

and Allah SWT gives special tests to special people.

Our Prophet ﷺ said, this is a famous Hadith, all of you should know it,

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