DAUGHTERS ARE BLESSINGS

Imam Sadeq (AS) has said:  “Surely Prophet Ibrahim (AS) called on God to give him a daughter to weep after his death.”  The Holy Prophet (SAW) has said:  “What good offspring are the girls! For they are kind, obedient, sympathetic and having blessing with them.”  “Whoever curses his child, God will afflict him with poverty.” Imam Sadeq (AS) has also said: “Girls are as benefaction but boys are as riches. On the Day of Judgment, there will be reward for the benefaction but riches will be questioned of.”  The Holy Prophet (SAW) has said:  “Whoever has three daughters or three sons, paradise is his due.”  It was asked: O Messenger of Allah, how about two? The Holy Prophet (SAW) said:  “The same is true with two.” It was asked: O Messenger of Allah, how about one? The Holy Prophet said:  “The same is true with one.”  The Holy Prophet (SAW) has also said: “Whoever has three daughters or sisters and is patient in taking care of them until they get married or die he and me are as these two fingers on paradise - at this time, the Holy Prophet referred to his index and middle fingers.”  It was asked: O Messenger of Allah, what happens if they are two? The Holy Prophet (SAW) said:  “The same is true with two.” It was asked, how about one?  The Holy Prophet said: “The same is true with one.”  A man to whom a baby girl was born and seeing he was angry, Imam Sadeq (AS) said:  “What will you do if God says to you: Shall I choose. The Imam said:  “Now God has chosen a girl for you.  About the boy whom Khidr killed as mentioned in verse 81 of the Quranic Chapter, the Cave: “So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in purity and nearer to having compassion.”  Imam Sadeq (AS) said instead of that son God gave them a daughter from whose generation, seventy prophets came.  4-Kinsfolk  The Holy Prophet (SAW) has said:  “I recommend ties of kinship to those who are present or absent and every one of my Ummah being in the loins of men and wombs of women till the Day of Judgment even if there is a gap as long as a year between them, for ties of kinship is part of religion.”  The Holy Prophet (SAW) has also said:  “One side of Sarat (bridge which the righteous only can cross on the road to paradise) on the Day of Judgment is trustworthiness and the other is ties of kinsfolk. One who has been trustworthy and has observed ties of kinsfolk, crosses the bridge and goes to paradise, however, one who breaches the trust and is heedless of relatives can not cross the bridge, for his other deeds will not avail him and Sarat will throw him.  Source:Oddatatol Daee (The Asset of Supplicant)