54. FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY
It is a tradition of Allah that He bestows some parents with daughter only and some with son and some with both i.e. son and daughter. Moreover, there are also some people whom He creates infertile, neither bestowing them with daughter nor with son. This tradition of Allah is not limited to ordinary people only, but He has also featured His distinguished people i.e. Prophets with these four cases. Sayyiduna Loot and Sayyiduna Shu’ayb had daughters only and no sons, Sayyiduna Ibraheem had sons only and no daughter was born of him. The Beloved Prophet was bestowed with four sons and four daughters. Sayyiduna ‘Isa and Sayyiduna Yahya were not bestowed with any children.
Allah has described this subject in the Holy Quran in the following words:
He may bestow daughters to whomever He wills, and sons to whomever He wills. Or, He couples both, the sons and daughters; and may make barren whomever He wills; indeed He is All Knowing, the Powerful.
Moral:
Whether Allah bestows someone with a daughter, a son, or both or makes someone infertile; these are all blessings of Allah. In the last part of the abovementioned verse there is a hint towards the fact that, who is worthy to be bestowed with a daughter, who is deserving of getting a son and who has the eligibility of being blessed with both son and daughter and who is the one for whom it is better that he should not get any children at all, knowledge of all these matters lies with Him only as He alone bears Supreme Knowledge and Absolute Power. Despite the vast knowledge and perception of the human being, it is beyond the human cognition to determine what is better or worse for him in future. Allah has mentioned in the Holy Quran:
And it is possible, that you may dislike a thing which is actually better for you; and it is possible that you may like a thing which is bad for you; and Allah knows, and you do not know.
Therefore, the bondsmen of Allah should not get displeased if they do not get something they wished for. Instead, they should observe patience and realize that they did not deserve that certain bounty. That’s why, Allah did not bless them with it. Allah is the Most Knowledgeable and He knows very well who is worthy and who is not.
Daughters
In these times, it has been observed that some people get upset and make sad faces on birth of daughters. Some go to the extent of refuting this Divine blessing by uttering foul phrases. It should be noted that becoming annoyed and upset upon the birth of daughters was a vile custom of the unbelievers in the times of ignorance. Allah says in this context:
And when one among of them receives the glad tidings of a daughter, his face turns black for the whole day, and he suppresses his anger. Hiding from the people because of the evil of the tidings; ‘Will he keep her with disgrace, or bury her in the sand?’ Lo! Very evil is the judgement they impose!
It must be noted that the Islamic custom is to express happiness upon the birth of daughters also and pay gratitude to Allah for the bestowment of His blessing. Believing in the glad tidings mentioned in following Ahadees, one may win bounties in the worldly life as well as afterlife. The Noblest Prophet has mentioned the following Ahadees in this context:
1. It is very blissful for a woman that first child born of her is daughter.
2. He who has some daughters and he treats them virtuously till he makes them marry according to Kufw (match), those daughters will become a shield for him against Hell.
3. The Prophet of Rahmah said, ‘You people should not perceive your daughters negatively, as I am also father of a few daughters.’
4. When a girl is born, then Allah says, ‘O girl! Descend unto the earth. I will help your father.’
Source: (QURANIC WONDERS) by ‘ABDUL MUSTAFA A’ZAMI.
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