Why Don't We Have Children Yet?

Mufti Menk

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Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

How many times have married couples faced the question - why don't you have a child yet? Or why are you stopping at only one? Or don't you want a boy? Such questions take a serious toll on us and the marriage too, mentally and emotionally. So how do you handle yourself and your life? How do you manourver your response to such situations? How to manage your relationship with your loved one, with concerned relatives and friends and more importantly with Allah? For guidance and support in this circumstance, make time to listen to this talk of the respected Sheikh Mufti Menk.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com
0:04.1	Assalamu alaikum my brothers and sisters
0:08.6	When we get married MashaAllah Tabarak Allah one of the next stages is to have children
0:14.4	People would be delighted to have children boys girls
0:18.8	Maybe both boys and girls and Subhanallah at times that doesn't happen so Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says
0:27.5	Lillahi mullakosama wa tiwa al-Ardu Yaqlokom Ya Shah
0:35.5	Indeed to Allah belongs Entire Kingdom
0:38.5	Entire Kingdom that which is on earth that which is in the heavens
0:42.5	He creates whatever He wishes
0:56.5	O you who are weak and weak and weak
1:02.5	And they are made of a stone and a stone
1:09.5	He grants whatever He wishes only females
1:13.5	He grants whatever He wishes only males
1:17.5	He grants some both male and female and some
1:21.5	Whomsoever He wishes He does not give any children at all for indeed He is all high all able
1:28.5	That is Allah
1:30.5	Now sometimes people are trying to conceive and it's taking years
1:35.5	And they're just not succeeding
1:38.5	How to look at that?
1:40.5	Subhanallah do you know every droplet of hope you have
1:45.5	You're earning a reward and closeness to Allah
1:49.5	And Allah knows perhaps I'm never going to give you this but the fact that you have hope in me and me alone is an act of worship
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