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As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

Say hello to the newest member of my Islamic family, Abdurrahman:

He was born on July 8th 2009 at 8:20pm and weighed 7lbs 15.5 oz. All praise and thanks belong to Allah alone. We were at hospital for just over 17 hours, arriving at 8am and leaving at 1am the following morning.

It was a difficult day but it was also a day when duaas were answered. I would like to thank those Muslims that made duaa for my family yesterday and I pray Allah ta’ala grants you the best of this world and the next.

During this ordeal I thought a lot about how much my wife means to me and how much I appreciate what she does for her family on a daily basis and the pain and trails of pregnancy and child birth she bears to help our family grow. Brothers give a little thought for your mothers who suffered because of you and to your wives who suffer for your families. Every Muslim woman who endures pregnancy and child birth with patience for the sake of Allah deserves Jannah.

O Allah forgive the mothers of the Ummah of Muhammed and grant them paradise.

My wife likes to remind of a few days before Sabah was born, when we were lying in bed talking about it, full of excitement, and I tried to say that it was likely to be my last weekend not being a father. It came out, ‘you know this is probably the last weekend I’ll be fatherless’ to which my beloved wife said, ‘what is your father coming?’ and she began to laugh at me and still laughs at me when ever she thinks of it. After Abdurrahman was born she said, ‘you stopped being fatherless three times now’. She’s so sweet, isn’t she?

For those who don’t know Abdurrahman is a boy and while I guess I wanted a boy, since I already have two girls, I wasn’t and still not sure how I feel about it. Girls are just so wonderful, so sweet, so beautiful. If Allah had given me 10 girls without a son I would have been content.

One thing having a son does for me is the potential to carry on my family name, which I adopted when I accepted Islam. For those who will criticise me and say that it is Haraam to change your family’s name, I know the argument and I do not disagree, however, owing to my particular situation it is academic. Even if I desperately desired to change my name back, I wouldn’t be able.

It does bring me an enormous amount of pleasure thinking that my son will carry my name, my DNA, and have his own Islamic family and that my daughters will get married and give birth to pious Muslims, all by the Will of Allah. Knowing that my family and its Islamic future is secured. My father, an enemy of Islam, hoped that I would abandon Islam and that I would die on anything other than the deen of Allah. How he must feel knowing that there will be generations of Muslims descended from him. Men and women, who will love Allah and His prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Allah will love them.

O Allah forgive me, forgive my family and forgive the Ummah of Muhammed for all its shortcomings and make us worthy of leading the world and establishing Your Shariah. O Allah make the women of this Ummah fertile and let the ranks of believing men and women swell until by sheer numbers we will be successful in making this world a place of worship exclusively for You.