Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 53
53 Both husband and wife will be praying to God Almighty for each other and for their children to become a delight of their eyes and will be praying for righteous children t o be born to them, and will pray that : ُِیَۡ اِمَاماا و ََ اجۡعَلۡنَا لِلۡمُّتََق ‘…and make each of us a leader of the righteous. ’ It is a prayer to have righteous progeny. And the head of a household is the I mam of the family. When it is prayed ‘make me a l eader of the righteous’ it means, produce pious people among my progeny. When a man supplicates this he prays for his wife and children to be righteous and when a woman supplicates this, as the guardian of the home, she prays for her children to be righteo us. When this prayer is made eagerly then effort is also made to keep oneself firm on righteousness resulting in a home which is a model of paradise where adults and children, everyone seeks to attain the pleasure of Allah the Exalted. After such parents p ass away from this world their children become a source of reward for them. Parents are rewarded for the upbringing of children; the father will be rewarded as well as the mother in her capacity as the guardian of the home and being responsible for the chi ldren. Virtuous acts of children will become source of elevating the station of the parents. And which true believer is there who claims to have faith and then says that he does not need to have his station elevated after death? Thus this prayer is useful for the reformation of one’s generations as well as one’s personal