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So we are doing our regular Q&As on Tuesday and we begin with our first question.

Sister Samir from New Zealand emails, MashAllah.

Beautiful land over there.

Alhamdulillah.

opportunity to visit your beautiful country. She emails from New Zealand and she says that

she is expecting and she wants to know the summary of what is to be done when the child is born,

what is the adab or the etiquette of the newborn, what is and isn't from the Sunnah and also some

advice in this regard. Now this is a very very important question and I thought that this

actually deserves a mini lecture in reality. So this in inshallah what I'll be doing for most of

time today because indeed it is one of the main aspects of our life that Allah

Azawajal blesses us we are all born and then we grow up and we have we get married and then we

have our own children. It is one of the primary milestones of life and it is also one of the greatest

blessings that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has given us. Allah Azawajal mentions in the Quran that

we bless you with money and with children and Allah says in the Quran Al-Malwa Al-Banuna Zinat

Al-Hayat Dunya, wealth and children are the beautification of this world. It's what makes life

beautiful and Allah mentions in Surat Al-Nahal. Allah created from you spouses from amongst you

and from your spouses he bless two children and grandchildren so Allah Azawajal explicitly tells us

that he's blessing us with children and grandchildren and he asks us to be thankful of those blessings.

So it is indeed a great blessing from Allah and those of us that are blessed with children

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