Mufti Menk – Why are babies soo cute

			Immediately upon birth, a child needs help. If you weren't left and nobody actually
		

			took care of you,
		

			you and I would never survive. We needed those around us. In order for us to survive, someone needed
to tend to us to feed us, to clothe us to ensure we were warm, to make sure that we were changed or
cleansed, etc. And this is why Allah has automatically kept a love for babies in the hearts of the
vast majority of humankind. When you see a little baby, in actual fact,
		

			I'm gonna say something you might not agree with, but I don't mind. Okay. You might not find the
baby really to be so cute. But you have to say, Oh, so cute, right?
		

			And if you were to look carefully at that image and scrutinize it, you know, there's crumpled up and
everything you just gonna say so cute because it's so small. The cuteness is perhaps in the size in
the pettiness. It's Allah who created this automatic connection between adults and little babies. Do
you know why? Because Allah wants you to be merciful. That's the reason so merciful. And the most
love perhaps is that of a mother. It's described in several generations of the sayings of the
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. It's described when the almighty tells us through the blessing
glimpse of the messenger peace be upon him how merciful he himself is. He compares it to the mercy
		

			of a mother and multiplies it so many fold.