Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Teach our children to use the right hand to eat food.

Since my daughter could hold food and eat by herself, she used only her left hand to eat. Everytime I saw her using her left hand, I had to tell her, "Allah is not happy if you don't use your right hand to eat," and then I had to make her using right hand to eat. Until now, she is 2 years old. She uses her right hand automatically and know that if using left hand Allah is not happy.

It is our duty to teach children to use right hand to eat. This is the sunnah of our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

To follow one sunnah, we will receive the reward equal to 100 Shaheed. So, teaching our children to use right hand to eat food is a great thing to do and it will make Allah happy with us.

Just imagine that we will get the reward whenever we follow sunnah of our beloved prophet sallallaho alahi wasallam. When we teach our children one sunnah and they follow what we teach them, then we also get the same reward from what they do.

For example:

If our children use their right hand to eat 10 times a day, then they will receive the reward 10 time of following one sunnah (using right hand to eat) * 100 shaheed (the reward) = 1000 shaheed. Insha Allah.

See, we have only one life and only die one time as shaheed. How merciful Allah is for us (the ummah of our nabi sallalaho alaihi wasallam)? Insha Allah, Allah will give us 100 shaheed for only follow one sunnah of the prophet sallallaho alaihi wasallam.

May Allah grant us taufiq and help us to follow the sunnah of our beloved nabi Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Ameen.

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