Was/Is pregnancy of any help to bring you closer to your Faith and practicing it more heartily?
If yes, how had/has it affected your daily life and routine? Have you added something to your life you didnt have pre pregnancy?
Was/Is there any special dua you recite for protection/safer pregnancy? I dont know why but I believe durood pak will protect me and my pregnancy. So I just keep reading it whenever I feel scared of anything. Its that short durood sharif (Allah huma salle ala Mohammadeon wa Al e Mohammad).
I also feel if I read Sura Mariyan regularly, it will help me in my labour and I will have an easy delivery. No one told me this specifically. They say reading Sura Mariyam is good for safer pregnancy. But I dont know I believe it will help me in delivery too. Just as Allah eased the delivery of Hazrat Mariyam Aleh Asalam.
Nahi. Surah Mariyam is great. I'll begin it in last months. I need to add surah yousaf to the friday friday ayat kareema. Will listen to it every friday.
I have heard Sura Yousuf is like really long. Some say reading the first ruku of it suffices. Read it and blow on your belly each time. The baby will be beautiful (they say).
Someone told me last week that soorah maryam eases and helps labour. Will start reading soon inshAllah.
You just have to read this and it makes you feel amazing,
· When a woman is pregnant with a child, all the angels will make Istighfar (repentance) on her behalf. Allah SWT will, for each day of her pregnancy, write for her 1000 good deeds and erase from her 1000 bad deeds.
· When a pregnant woman starts to feel the pain from contractions, Allah SWT will write in her records as someone who is doing jihad (spiritual or physical struggle) in His path.
· When a woman becomes pregnant by her husband and he is pleased with her, she obtains the reward of a person engaging in fasting for Allah SWT and a person spending the night in ibaadah (worship).
· A woman from the time of pregnancy until childbirth and weaning the baby, is like the Mujahid (someone fighting in the path of Allah, swa) who is stationed on the frontiers of the Islamic land. If she dies during this period, she dies the death of a shahid (martyr).
· Two raka'at salaat performed by a pregnant woman is better than 80 raka'at salaat performed by a non-pregnant woman.
· A woman who is pregnant gets the reward of fasting during the day and of doing ibaadah (worship) during the nights.
· A woman who gives birth gets the reward of 70 years of salaat (prayer) and fasting. For each vein that feels pain, Allah SWT gives her the reward of one accepted hajj (Pilgrimage to Makkah).
· If the woman dies within 40 days of giving birth, she will die as a shahid (matyr).
(Hadith).......'A woman that dies in her virginity or during her pregnancy or at the time of birth or thereafter (in nifaas) will attain the rank of a martyr'
Nabi(salalaallahu alayhi wassallam) is reported to have also said '........When her labour pains commence, the inhabitants of the earth and the sky are unaware of the stores of comfort that are prepared for her. When she delivers and breast feeds her child, then she will be granted a reword for every gulp of milk, if she had to remain awake during the night for the sake of the child, she will receive the reword of emancipating seventy slaves in the path of Allah Ta'ala. O Salaamat! Do you know who these women are? They are pious, upright, with a delicate nature yet obedient to their husbands and not ungrateful to them'
That was such a valuable post Mrs nm. Thanks. I am feeling stronger after reading your take on Sura Mariyam. Its short and easy. Reading it daily shouldnt be a task really.
There is no evidence to suggest that reciting Surah Maryam helps during labour, so we should NOT assume that it will, or go out of our way to particularly read it during our pregnancy.
Same goes for any other Surah, unless its specifically mentioned in the Quranic/ Hadith texts to read "x" for reason "y", then we should really question the practice.
I try to recite the Quran out loud because i know the baby can hear me, and try to make dua afterwards for him/ her. Also recite the Quranic dua
"Rabbana hab lana min azwajina wa dhuriyyatina qurrata A'yunin waj'alna lil-muttaqina imama."
"Our Lord! grant us in our mates and offspring the joy of our eyes and make us patterns for those who guard against evil." (25:74)"
Alright no offense meant but I can never see eye to eye with hard liners. Whats this with YES or NOT. I simply believe in instincts. I believe every word or an alphabet, for that matter, of Quraan has its own power and influence. The story of Hazrat Mariyam given in Sura Mariyam is for a reason and well I KNOW and BELIEVE it should and would help, because its the word of Allah. Just As Allah eased the labor of Hazrat Mariyam, when she was all alone and companion less, so will He ease it for us. People MAY NOT believe the way I do, to each his own.
So see, there is a difference between NOT and MAY NOT. Im not trying to enforce my opinion on others.
I just think that if reciting Surah Maryam did help during labour then surely the Prophet SAW would have know of it, and would have suggested it in His time. The fact that He (SAW) didn't makes me strongly question its usefulness.
(they say).