Mufti Menk – Ask Allah For The Special Gift

			So you know Zakariya
		

			didn't have children, right? What did he say?
		

			He says:
		

			Again he used the term hab. Hab means
		

			grant me a gift.
		

			Grant me a gift. Of what? Of
		

			family, progeny, children who will be a gift
		

			from you. And Allah
		

			says, We gave him the gift.
		

			And so in the Quran
		

			it says,
		

			Al Wahhab,
		

			the name of Allah that is used, wahab,
		

			in this case as well. So Allah is
		

			giving the gift, something that you lost hope
		

			about,
		

			but not from Allah, which I didn't lose
		

			hope in Allah, but I lost hope
		

			in worldly things. People get married, and it's
		

			happening often. May Allah grant ease to all
		

			those who are married
		

			in their marriages, and those who don't have
		

			children. Allah bless them with children as well,
		

			but it's quite stressful when years are passing,
		

			and you know what?
		

			People are just looking at you, thinking it's
		

			about time you started a family, and you're
		

			busy thinking: It's got nothing to do with
		

			about time I, I wanted to start a
		

			family the day I got married.
		

			In fact I started a family.
		

			But it's up to Allah when He is
		

			going to bless us with children,
		

			right? People might say, well you need to,
		

			you need to be on a strict diet,
		

			you know, get off sugars and gluten and
		

			this and Yeah, that that may help you.
		

			It's good to do things that perhaps might,
		

			you know, purify your reproductive system in a
		

			beautiful way. Perhaps, yeah, you can try that
		

			out. It's worked for a lot of people,
		

			but at the same time, isn't it some
		

			emptiness that you feel within you to say,
		

			I don't have children yet, man, Allahu Akbar,
		

			here's the name, Seek forgiveness of Allah, Rabbirfirli.
		

			O Allah forgive me. And then that wahab,
		

			innaqaantalwahab
		

			hubli. O Allah grant me.