Asif Hirani – Ayah of the Night Ramadan Day 13

			Our society
		

			is struggling big time from fatherlessness.
		

			There are statistics and report
		

			that fatherlessness
		

			have caused so much drug addiction,
		

			so much
		

			high school dropout, and so many other issues.
		

			Lack of father is a problem in our
		

			entire modern society.
		

			Now, see Suri Yusuf. In the beginning,
		

			Allah
		

			highlights the role of Yaqub
		

			in the development of Yusuf, alayhi, salaam.
		

			Allah
		

			says, in the beginning, at 4, when Yusuf
		

			alaihi salatu wa sallam saw a dream, that
		

			famous dream, 11 stars and a sun and
		

			a moon doing sajdah to him. He went
		

			straight to his dad.
		

			He had 11 other siblings. He had other
		

			aunties, but he went straight to his dad
		

			because he was trusting and his
		

			trusting. And his dad had such a relationship
		

			with him that, actually, my dad will able
		

			to help me, if I'm struggling or if
		

			I have seen any dream. He will able
		

			to help me to find the answer to
		

			it. And then Yaqub alayhis salaam also, he
		

			was not dismissive of the idea that I
		

			am busy because,
		

			you have to understand, he was a
		

			prophet. He had 12 kids. That's what we
		

			know from the Quran. But he gave time
		

			to the son. And at the same time,
		

			he advised him and very wise advice.
		

			This is what we are learning. When a
		

			father talks to his son, that makes a
		

			huge impact. This is in his childhood when
		

			he was 7 years old. Now if you
		

			go at the end of Surah Yusuf, you'll
		

			see something really interesting.
		

			You will see the same Yusuf alaihis salaam
		

			when he will grow old. He will become
		

			the reason
		

			of saving so many kids from starvation in
		

			Egypt. SubhanAllah.
		

			When father gives time to his son and
		

			daughter
		

			and gives advice to the son and daughter,
		

			then eventually these people, these son and daughter,
		

			when they will grow old, they will going
		

			to give it back to the community in
		

			a positive way. An extremely, extremely important reminder
		

			to all of us about the role of
		

			fatherhood in our community.
		

			I ask Allah
		

			to give us all the ability
		

			to
		

			understand these ayat properly. I mean, You're