"O Allah, whatever favours You have bestowed upon me and all other creations is only from you. You are One, You have no partners. Praise and Shukr (thanks) be to You".
It took her some time to think what she can write on this topic. This does not mean that she doesn’t realize the blessings of Allah in her and around her. She is so grateful to Allah for being healthy, for having a lovely family, and an adorable daughter. She feels so blessed that she is Egyptian and that Allah has made her witness the wake of her people against corruption.
It is just that today Salma realized that there is something more precious in her life that she must be grateful for after a discussion she had with her European friend.
It is so. This friend is blaming her all the time for being pregnant while her daughter is only two years old. She finds this a big drawback in Salma's life, a threaten to her career and is an introduction to financial problems. That's why she did not congratulate her that she is pregnant although everybody she knows in Egypt did.
Salma accepted all that and thought these people just think differently about birth and children. She was composed all the time and tried to explain in one way or the other that having children is a blessing and to clarify that Muslims do not fear poverty when they get children as they believe in Allah's promise in Quran " We provide sustenance for you and for them" (Al-Anaam, 151) and also " We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you" (Al-Isra, 31). She also explained that children are the light of houses and they are the way to populate the earth.
Today, however this friend went a little bit too far with her after Salma's daughter has fallen down the stairs. She told her that she does not understand how she is going to deal with two children, while she can not deal with one, knowing that Salma does not have a nanny and her mother is living far away from her.
Right exactly at that point Allah has aided her with the right answer. She talked with the friend in the same logic she could understand and she realized how beautiful it is to be Muslim.
Salma explained to her that the birth rate in this European country is very low. According to the population growth rates the country has zero population growth in comparison to other Muslims in the same country who are willing to have children and that experts of demography predict a high shrinking in its population by approaching 2030. The friend was smart enough to realize what Salma was aiming at. She promptly replied in an angry tone that her country will never be a Muslim country.
Salma laughed inside her and added that it was mentioned lately that a lot of children are killed by their parents in this country. Unfortunately she does not have the exact rate of killings. One thing she knows very well and the friend also does is that three hospitals around the village have closed down the baby delivery section because nobody wants to have children. Salma concluded by saying that if the people in that country continue to refuse children either by killing them or by avoiding to give birth , then this country will inevitably be Muslim. Salma went away and just left the friend then to absorb the shock.
The discussion made Salma realize how grateful she is to Allah for being Muslim who believes in his fate and in his fair division of health and wealth. Subhan Allah there are sensitive hearts and tough hearts.
Salma thought ”Alhamdullilah I am Muslim.“
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