Kids.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

My recent smart circle discussed about the seerah of one of the muslims who have made history-Sultan Muhammad Al Fateh. He is being particularly famous, people are keen to know more about him-probably because he was the same age as they are now when he opened Constantinople-21 years old.

And then, we talked about how he came to be such a great leader. It was said in history that his mother, when Sultan Muhammad Al Fateh was still just a baby, kept on saying to him, "My Dear Son, one day, you will be the one to open Constantinople." On top of that, Sultan Muhammad Al Fateh had great and pious teachers who taught him everything from about the religion to war tactics.

And then, coz we have a married person in our discussion, the topic of  "How to prepare ourselves to be good mothers so that our children will be good muslims" was brought up.

One of us shared that as a muslimah, we have to prepare ourselves 20 years before we give birth to our children. Now, how's that? Does that mean that if we are to be ultimately prepared to be a good mother and bears good children, we should get married and have children by the age of 40? since now we are 20 something. Nah, what is being conveyed is just, it's never too late to start now. Start being a  good muslimah yourself t-o-d-a-y. You know the saying, "Macamana kita sekarang, macam tu la anak2 kita nanti."This saying is quite deep actually. Some may beg to differ but I'd like to point out something here. A child first ever role model in his life are his parents. The child may sometimes forget or defy what his parents told him to do but he will always mimics our behavior and actions. Young children, they are so innocent and it is at this time of age to incorporate salimul aqidah and good behaviour in them since they have more compliance in doing so at this very young age. 

Ok, and then, one of us said, "Eh, memang kena fikir dari sekarang ke pasal anak2 ni? Saya tak pernah terfikir pun." Well, in my opinion, the thought about bringing up our children one day never did cross our minds because we assume that we are still young and too early to even think about such issue maybe because you are not engaged, so no way are you going to be married anytime soon and the time we have now should really only be focused to our studies and excel in it. But then, I'll say, "Jodoh ni kita tak tahu. Aturan Allah ni kadang2 tak disangka-sangka."

With all the social problems arising nowadays, it made the world into an unsecure place for our future children. A thought occured to me as to how am I going to survive bringing up my children into good muslims and muslimah with all the challenges that strive to rip off their aqidah from every corner possible. But then, 

"Anak2 yg soleh adalah saham akhirat kita."

As for that, I only have the conclusion that we as parents(one day) can only give our best to give the best to our children but the outcomes are Allah's to handle.

P/S: Did you know that one of the ways to treat infertility is just simply by dhikr-Astaghfirullah? Buku bawah ni yg ckp.

Wallahu'alam.