TO BE WITH CHILD

"I repeat: If you accept Allah (God) and follow me and if you give birth to 100 children, each of you girls and women is considered more blessed and right in the eyes of Allah (God) than those who try to kill the birth seed."--The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (How To Eat To Live, Bk I)

     Normally when we hear that phrase, the image of an expectant mother comes to mind. Not very often at all do we consider the relevance of the father's presence in a child's life. 

     In this world when we see one another and deal with one another, we don't consider the people that are behind us that really in truth make us who we are. Sometimes we may consider the husband or the wife but more often than not we don't think of the children that are behind us. Children are glimpses humanity in its purest form.

They have yet to be tainted with the harshness of the world.

     Imagine the so-called holidays, Muslim or otherwise, without children. They don't even remotely look the same without their presence. 

     Children bring joy to the experience of everything, they truly complete us. They ground us and make us remember what is important when we see them and interact with them as we struggle to fulfill their needs (materially and spiritually). 

They are Allah (God's) mercy to us. If we only understood that and truly knew that, we would cease to hear about child abductions, disappearances, molestation and abuse.