Combining the view that a child is a trial with the prophets' supplication for offspring
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Question:
The questioner asks: How do we reconcile the fact that a child is considered one of the trials with the fact that the prophets and messengers used to ask Allah to grant them children?
Answer:
Yes, righteous offspring. They did not say, "Grant us a child," and stop there. Rather, Zakariyya (peace be upon him) said, "My Lord,"[Ali 'Imran 3:38]. And what did Ibrahim say? He said, "My Lord, grant me," here, "My Lord," [As-Saffat 37:100] [Ibrahim 14:40]. He supplicated for his descendants. They did not ask for offspring alone; they asked for righteous offspring.
The questioner asks: How do we reconcile the fact that a child is considered one of the trials with the fact that the prophets and messengers used to ask Allah to grant them children?
Answer:
Yes, righteous offspring. They did not say, "Grant us a child," and stop there. Rather, Zakariyya (peace be upon him) said, "My Lord,"
grant me from Yourself a good offspring
هَبْ لِي مِن لَّدُنكَ ذُرِّيَّةً طَيِّبَةًgrant me [a child] from among the righteous."
هَبْ لِي مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَMy Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and [many] from my descendants
رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي مُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةِ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِي
Source
كتاب آحاديث الفتن والحوادث، أحاديث الفتن والحوادث [04] — alfawzan.live (48:32)
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