𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗵 (40)

What Do You Gain If Your Child Is Ruined Because of Your Duʿā? Sheikh 'Abdurrazaq Al-Badr hafidhahullah says: A soldier who was assigned to stand near the Black Stone [relates the following story]. May Allah reward him for what he did and bless his actions. What he did was truly remarkable. He had just started working in that place. He said, “I heard the sound of intense crying. The crying caught my attention, so I listened carefully to what the man was praying for. The man kept saying in his supplication: ‘O Lord, people have children, but I have no child. Give me a child.’ He kept repeating these words and crying deeply. The soldier said, “It was the beginning of my work there, and the sound of his voice stayed in my memory.” He continued, “SubhanAllah, after 18 or 20 years, I was still working in the same place. Suddenly I heard the same voice near the Multazam. I remembered the man. I looked at him and realised it was the same face. He was praying with the same intensity and crying just as before. So I listened to what he was asking for this time. To my surprise, he was saying: ‘O my Lord, destroy this son!’ He was begging Allah and crying, asking Him to destroy his son.” The soldier said, “I came down from my place and asked my colleague to stand where I was. Then I took the man away from the Multazam and led him outside. I said to him (this soldier was granted success, may Allah reward him): ‘Aren’t you the same man who stood here about eighteen years ago asking Allah to give you a child?’ The man replied, ‘Yes.’ I said to him, ‘You have wronged your son twice in this very place. The first time, I heard your prayer and I memorised it. You kept saying, “Give me a child.” But you never said, “Give me a righteous child.” You never said, “My Lord, grant me a righteous child.” And now you have come to the same place praying against him. You were not good to him the first time, and now you are not good to him again. Go back to that place and ask Allah to guide him. Cry the same way you cried before and ask Allah to guide him and change his heart.’” The soldier said, “I explained this to him, then took him back to the Multazam. The man began crying again, but this time he prayed for his son’s guidance.” He continued, “About a year later, the man came back with his son. He greeted me and said to his son, ‘Tell him your story.’ The son swore to me that at the very same hour when his father stood at the Multazam praying for his guidance, he suddenly got up, performed ablution, and started praying. From that moment, he swore by Allah that he changed his life and became upright.” Before this the young man had been using drugs and had greatly harmed his parents, causing them much pain and trouble. So pay attention to this matter. The father should not rush to pray against his child just because he becomes angry or upset by some behaviour. Some parents even choose special times when prayers are answered to pray against their children. This is wrong. A father must show mercy to his child. Source: https://t.me/khawaaaaatir/73