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EPISODE 2️⃣2️⃣ – NINTH (LAST) CHARACTERISTIC: THEY ALWAYS MAKE DU’A THAT THEIR SPOUSE AND LINEAGE ARE THE COOLNESS OF THEIR EYES
Before we continue with the next part of the ayah, I want to depict how powerful and super important this du’a is:
Know that there is absolutely no stronger bond between a mother and her baby child. So imagine the state of panic and desperation when Musa’s mother put him (when he عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ was a baby) in the river to save him from Fir’aun. There must had been a thousand thoughts that came to her mind:
Will he be ok?
Will the water overturn him?
Will he drown?
Will he get dehydrated?
Will he be picked up by Fir’aun’s soldiers?
Will I see him again?
So many desperate questions that she didn’t know the answer to any! So can you imagine her state of emotion when she was finally reunited with her beloved Musa عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ? Look how Allaah describes that emotion:
فَرَجَعْنَاكَ إِلَىٰ أُمِّكَ كَيْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا تَحْزَنَ ۚ
So We restored you to your mother, that she might cool her eyes and she should not grieve.
[Surah Ta-Ha 20:40]
The most amazing joy and relief, the most indescribable feeling in the heart with “the coolness of eyes”. And this is precisely what we ask from Allaah from this powerful and beautiful du’a.
But what exactly are the traits of our spouses and offsprings that will bring such coolness of the eyes? What exactly are we asking for our spouses and offsprings from Allaah in this du’a?
They are the love of Tawhid and the love of ‘Ibadah.
Ibn Kathir رحمه الله wrote in his tafseer that in this du’a, we are actually asking from Allaah to grant us spouses and offsprings who will strive to obey and worship Allaah, absolutely without any form of shirk – because it is these traits that will bring the coolness of one’s eyes. Families that will bring one’s joy in this Dunya and the Hereafter are those whose family members, as well as its generations to come, that absolutely love Tawhid and are obedient to Allaah.
To be continued… إن شاء الله
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