Naima B. Robert – An Obscene Amount of Children

Have as many kids as you possibly can.

Manufacture them like a factory.

Because

no. Because

the true happiness comes when you see the

fruits of your labor.

Okay. Think about it. If you have 1

child in the marriage or 2 children,

that's an accomplishment in of itself, and you've

done very well. But no one can tell

me that's better than having 10 and having

a whole.

You know? Dead children.

I'm not laughing. I'm laughing. Listen. Listen. Listen.

Listen. No one can challenge me on this

one. Not a single person can challenge me

on this one. If you have 10 children,

now

you're 60, 70 years old, and you look

down at Eid,

and it's literally an ummah

of 10 mans with their husband and wife,

and their 10 children each, 100 people,

you cannot tell me there is satisfaction that

you did something.

I don't care what you say. And that's

something everyone can achieve, rich or poor. That

is your contribution to the. At the very

least, you fulfilled what the messenger of Allah

subhanahu wa sallam has asked for, which is

the the largest of Ummah.

They can compete with the other Ummah

at the very least. No one could tell

me that. And at the and you can

say, even as a backup, imagine doesn't go

as to plan. At least 1 or 2

of the kids might care for you. Out

of the 10. Out of the 10. Out

of the 10. It's okay. Hey. What's that?

20%

twenty percent ratio. It's a 20% success rate.

Maybe you can grant us the very best.

You've literally distributed

your your care when you're old and you

can't move to 10 separate people. They don't

have to be there all the time. That's

true. Some could just do something. You've you've

lightened the load Yes. Off of them for

your

effort. I'm telling you I'm telling you, if

you invest

in your children,

that is the greatest investment

for a marriage. That is the best thing

you can do for marriage. Forget the money.

Money is great. Money is important. Money is

very important.

But I don't think it's more important than

children.

Hence why

Allah

said, Don't kill your children out of fear

of poverty. We'll provide for you and them.

And another another another aya, we provide for

them and you.

So

Allah is clearly saying to you,

money is not a fact when it comes

to children. If you bring it as a

factor,

your your your you're not you're missing the

point.

Allah will provide for you. Allah will bring

it forward for you. Just do your bit.

Marriage,

children,

have an obscene amount of children up until

Wow. And up until literally,

medically, you can't even do it anymore. Can

no more. And and then and then you

say, I've

done my bit. I've done some do the

negative honeymoon thing, and you can you can

relax with your husband and go holidays when

you're in your fifties and sixties and whatnot.

But before that, you have a job to

do. I know it's I know it's people

don't wanna hear that, and then there's 2

or 3 kids, but no.

No.

No.

I mean, come on. It's it's never it's

never been that way. I mean

I mean, your grandparents, how many kids did

they have? I'm sure they had, like, ups

more than 5. Everyone has grand grandparents, great

grandparents. My grandmother was one of well, was

one of

12.

Yeah.

Yeah. No. I I I hear what you're

saying. Obviously,

I'm just, I'm I'm,

yeah, it's not it's not really See, the

thing is not really worthy of the gram.

You know? It's not it's it's it's not

but it's not a flex. You know what

I mean? Listen. Everyone's always talking about talking

about let's stick to the way of the.

Oh, you pulled the card. Oh, done. 1

up

until that moment. It won't set a fee

up until it comes to number of kids.

No. B set a fee, even number of

children you have. How many kids they have?

A whole leap. As many as possible. Okay.

So okay. So how about this? How about

this?

Polygyny,

polygamy. Mhmm. Mhmm. 1 wife, 2 wives, 3

wives, 4 wives.

Spread the 10 kids amongst them. You know?

So each one's got, like, maybe 3 each,

and then now we've got, like, 12. Is

is that also an efficient strategy or no?

If if someone if someone, is interested in

polygamy and they can handle that and when

I say handle, I don't mean just financially,

even emotionally and whatnot.

Then I think a good strategy will be

maybe to have 8 to 10 each.

That's your.

That's your work done. No. No. No reason

I say that is because, like I said,

it's not again, if you'd said spread it

out,

then then that's that's looking at it as

what he

wants. How about what she wants?

I'm not saying what she wants. I don't

mean what she wants now because that if

I sit a woman if I sit a

woman, you're going to carry a child for

9 months. You're gonna go through labor.

You're gonna have you're gonna suckle that child

for up to 2 years. Change nappy. And

you're gonna do that 9 times.

I'm I'm sure no one will say, yeah.

Sign me up. Let's let's let's do this.

No. No. It's not it's not that kind

of thing. But that's the thing. That's not

how Muslims think. We don't think, oh, because

it's difficult, we don't do it.

We need to start thinking of because it's

difficult. Maybe there's a maybe there's a reason

why it's difficult. Maybe there's a great reward

in doing that. It's often that the things

that reward you the most are that which

is not difficult.

So I'm telling you, I cannot imagine, and

no one could I No one could tell

me if Omar had saber

9 times with 9 kids, that after they

have now grown up and they love her

and they respect her and they give her

all that she needs, she's gonna ever regret

that.

Never ever ever That's true. No one trying

to be that one. No. No. No. That's

true. I agree with you. I agree with

you. I would probably We come to Islam.

Islam is about delayed gratification.

You delay the gratification, the reward later on.

I mean, where's Jannah?

Jannah is about delayed gratification. We work in

our whole lives

for a reward. Not only have we haven't

even seen,

no one's seen it before. But we know

it's there. We know it's coming, which is

the way you have suffered. Same thing with

children. You struggle.

It's difficult. You gotta pay for them, education,

all that kind of stuff.

But, eventually,

it will pay off.

Yeah. And no and no one no one

will challenge me that one. No. No. No.

I I think, definitely, if you press anybody

and you look at it with that long

term view,

for sure. Like, there is there is

there is nothing else at the end of

everything, you

know? All the the work, the career, the

degrees, the social media, the friends, and all

of that.

In the end, when you're 60, 70, 80,

it's really your family that brings you joy,

isn't it? Your family seeing your children grow

up, seeing them pair up, seeing them have

their own children. That is where the joy

is. That is the retirement. People want to

want their retirement and this fund and that

fund and this company are gonna give them

retire. No. No. No.

Your retirement is your children.

If if people don't recognize that your retirement

is your children, they've missed the point. Anyone

who thinks that their retirement is their retirement

fund, not their children, they have lost the

plot. They have missed the message, and they're

gonna find out at some point.