1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Barriy; |
2 | The Innocent, the Blameless, the Inculpable; |
3 | And the twenty-first name of Allah, the Infinite, the Unique, the All Knowing. |
4 | In the innocence yet authenticity of the question of a child; |
5 | In the wonderment of life and learning; |
6 | In the purity and blamelessness of a child; |
7 | Thus Allah is innocent and inculpable of willing and deliberate evil. |
8 | Verily, one who would harm even a hair upon the head of a little one, |
9 | Is guilty of a terrible transgression against Allah. |
10 | Verily and most solemnly, one who would deliberately molest or severely injure a child, |
11 | Is unfit to be known as Muslim. |
12 | Take those who kill children and cast them into a deep pit; |
13 | Erase their names and let no one remember them; |
14 | For those that kill children are worse than animals and disgrace the Way of Islam. |
15 | Give thanks then for your children; |
16 | As Allah gives thanks for all living creatures. |
17 | When planning for children, |
18 | A father should honor Allah and praise his wife with their first child; |
19 | Gives thanks and honor to one’s tribe upon the birth of any second child; |
20 | And thereafter seek further children as may benefit the community. |