The Shaykh’s talk on the relationship between children and wealth, and that the child is more precious than wealth.

The Shaykh : We say that all human beings, there is no difference between a Muslim and a disbeliever, no difference between a righteous Muslim and a wicked one, a fortiori, they all agree that wealth is less than the child, and that the child is more precious than wealth. Is there anyone who disagrees, or is it by consensus? Is the child not more precious than wealth? There is no doubt that is so, but it appears there is a bit of doubt in this regarding some people, but that is not our concern.
The student : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes, this verse is well known, but I am speaking about the nature of people.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : I am saying the child is more precious than wealth. What is the result? The evidence is the reality of the lives of these fathers. If one of the sons is struck by an illness, the parents do not go mad, right? If he is poor and destitute, you will find him begging here and there so that he can treat his son and save him from facing death, and so on. So by fitrah and instinct, the child is more precious than wealth. And that is also the case, and one thing reminds one of another. The journey I told you about earlier, and we mentioned the issue of bending in the kiss. A question came from one of them who had sons who shared in his work in some of the lands he owned. So may Allah bless him in his provision, and he came to have lands in the hundreds of dunums, as they say today. The question was: Is it permissible for these sons to be given something of the wealth, something of the real estate? And the daughters who got married, are they not given anything at all? Of course, my answer was with some detail, and I am not now in that context, but I am, I mean, placing some interjected sentences to bring closer the subject I am addressing. So I answered him, of course, this is not permissible on the basis of . But the point is, why is the child more precious than wealth? Because the child is the one who brings him the wealth. The child is the one who brings him the wealth. And this example I have brought now. So suppose a person came to have wealth without calculation. One person would say, "Oh people, my brother, my need..." No one would say, "Enough, enough," even if he were from the righteous. No one would say, "Enough for me, enough for me." The evidence for that is, first, the Qur'anic text that speaks of human instinct in His saying, the Exalted: . The "good" here is wealth. It speaks of the instinct. And the evidence from the authentic Sunnah is what came in "Sahih al-Bukhari" that Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He—this is not from the Isra'iliyyat, it is a hadith about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): .
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Welcome, greetings.
The student : How is your health and well-being?

The Shaykh : Welcome, greetings. How are you? This is not considered a handshake for you.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : It is a full handshake.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. How do you do the handshake?

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : From you we benefit. May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The student : May Allah keep you safe.
Another student: ...the youth... the Shaykh, from you half a beard...

The Shaykh: How.
The student : He is pleased with you... half a beard.
Another student: No...
The student : We told him... retire from his work, retire from his work...
Another student: He retires when he retires.
The student : The Shaykh spoke with him.

The Shaykh : In any case, let us return to completing the topic. What does "locusts" mean? Not the edible locusts. It is not about pieces of gold falling to the ground.
The student : Hahaha, Allahu Akbar!

The Shaykh : Hahaha, I want to take a lesson from such a verse and this hadith: , and the "good" is wealth. And this is Ayyub, the Prophet of Allah, who is scooping up gold in his tail. He says, "We have no need of your favor." What I want to say now is that Muslims today, because of the disbelievers' directives to them, are in need of the favor of Allah. Because if you follow me in this Islamic logic that wealth is less than the child, and that the child is more precious than wealth, and that through the child wealth increases, as you know, and I gave you an example earlier, then when the couple says, "My brother, we want to regulate our offspring," this is if he does not say it just for the sake of it.
The student : Three or four are enough for us.

The Shaykh : Yes, as the Shaykh sometimes says, in the European way, they are content with a son and a daughter, a husband and a wife, and their fifth is their dog.
The student: Hehehe.

The Shaykh : They are content with this. So Muslims today, because of these disbelievers' directives, dispense with the favor of Allah. When our Lord sends to the husband of a fertile woman, my brother, we want to regulate. Who regulates the coming of wealth?
The student: No.

The Shaykh : No, but Satan may always whisper to the children of Adam. He always says, "But, Professor, Shaykh, speaker, but here the issue is the matter of pregnancy and childbirth, it is not a planted road, as they say. There is difficulty in it, there is pregnancy and childbirth and miscarriage, and so on. And gathering wealth, people, does it come down like the gold came down to Ayyub (peace be upon him)? Or does it also require effort, it requires toil, it requires staying up? So all blessings do not come except... what does the poem say? They come according to the...
The student : "According to the resolve of the people come the resolves ***"

The Shaykh : The resolves, yes, so it is. So do not say that, by Allah, pregnancy is like this, there is difficulty in it, and likewise gathering wealth has difficulty in it. However, finally, I do not want to stand with our brothers present on the material side, because I was speaking now on the material side, that the child is more precious than wealth.